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Merry Christmas all! While scanning Traksy looking at the Christmas messages left by signallers in the area, I noticed a lot of the berths around the Ordsall Chord/Manchester Victoria area had "ITEM *57*", can anyone tell me what this would mean and are there any other regular abbreviations...

While waiting for a tram from Metrolinks Crumpsall, I noticed the relatively new bay platform doesn't have a buffer stop and it got me thinking about dead-ends on other parts of the network, aswell as other networks. It's been that long since I have travelled on any other light rail system I...

The Manchester Evening News have published an article from a passenger who had to "Detrain" after a fallen tree on Metrolinks Bury line. From the images it looks as if the tram had hit the tree and according to the report the driver opened the door, passengers had to jump down to track level and...

Hello all, I've got some questions about the junctions at Castleton that join onto the ELR that I cant seem to find anything online. I seem to recall the pointwork for Castleton South Junction onto the southern side of the triangle to Heywood had been "Plain Lined" with the pointwork still in...

Hello all and Merry Christmas! Now its well known that the rail network pretty much shuts down for the day but reading on this forum I see there is a shuttle running between the Heathrow stations, im not from that area so don't know of that is a yearly thing but it got me thinking, is there...

Hello all, I'm starting to build a small model railway based on the Underground, with a Network Rail line running at the back and I'm looking to add a track connection between the two for a bit of added interest. Being from the North I don't know the Underground layout very well, is there many...

Hello all, I applied for a a Crossing keeper job with Network Rail at Norbury Hollow last week and having received an email saying I passed the initial, presumably automated, stage I now have one to complete an online assesment. Does anyone know what the assesment entails before I open it? The...