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It has occurred to me that with travel in general having dropped dramatically airlines calling for financial help bus and coach companies struggling and many taxi drivers facing a bleak future if the government may have to step in and take over some or all of the remaining franchises not...

Don't think we have a section for railway Archaeology so lets try here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-51820160 HS2 work has unearthed an old Robert Stephenson-designed railway turntable in Birmingham. Excavations at the former Curzon Street station, which is set to be a new...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51512831

Bit of a non story really as new trains are always going to have teething trouble https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51412945

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51390241

Another bridge collision this time in york fortunately no injuries https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-51406005

From the BBC news website https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51227305# Staff at South Western Railway (SWR) have voted to hold more strikes as part of a dispute over the future of guards. The walkouts were supported by more than four-fifths of staff who chose to vote, on a turnout of 59%...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-51063699

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/jobs/loughboroughs-brush-uk-workforce-transferred-3716508 so another famous railway works bites the dust :(

I notice that this very useful site has been closed down such a shame it was usually very helpful :'(

I have noticed if I am stuck at one of the ECML crossings as I often am that you can hear the Azumas coming a long way off not sure if it is the motors or the traction blowers but they are a lot noisier than the stealth bomber sets and almost equal to HST's for noise level at speed. It...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-50620063 A very nasty incident :'( by the sounds of it

Yes Yes Yes :lol::lol::lol: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50544283 That'll teach them for the use of dodgy practices to undercut the competition and it'll cut the rapes and sexual assaults in half Not to mention the ones who book to go a couple of miles up the road and end up 100...

Don't think he could stop at the speed he was going https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-50530061/lorry-smashes-through-level-crossing-barrier-in-hartlebury

Angry commuters get the message home to extinction rebellion that tube trains are actually environmentally friendly !!!!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50079716 Commuters have dragged climate change protesters from the roof of a London Underground train. Extinction Rebellion...

So for 3 days running loads of late running and cancellations resulting in me only managing to pick up 3 out of 11 passengers due into Peterborough this week. 5 abandoned their journeys the others travelled to alternate destinations Why has the LNER timetable so dramatically fallen apart this...

I have to say that with a limited number of locos albeit some very interesting ones. They put on one of the best galas I have known there This included brake van rides up to Yarwell and back allowing you to get up close and personal with the locos plenty of double heading and a triple header...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50015344 So will they spend on the stock or perhaps create better facilities ?

since more than one loco was appearing in a new livery what do you think was the best new paint job ? I think D1015 shaded it over 50033 with 50049 third it does strike me that the painting of railway locos is getting so much better these days

this 1980's documentary video popped up on you tube recently about overcrowding and fares going up. Makes an interesting comparison with today !!