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I've just watched a livestreamed presentation from the IET which covers some historic background, current thinking and priorities around the creation of Great British Railways, presented by Rufus Boyd, Programme Director Passenger and Freight Services, GBR Transition Team. Some of the points...

During my school days, my local station was Nailsea and Backwell, situated 12 miles west of Temple Meads on the Bristol to Exeter line. By the time I first visited in the early 1970s, it was already a shadow of its former self, having lost its sidings, signal box and platform buildings. I...

My local paper, the Reading Chronicle, occasionally publishes photos from their archives with suitably amusing "goodness me, look at that" type captions. They recently included one of a user operated crossing which they thought might have been somewhere between Reading and Newbury. There's very...

This morning I renewed my Network Railcard, which gives a 1/3 discount for weekday off-peak travel after 10:00. I was intending to catch the 10:18 from Pangbourne to Paddington, but noticed that the preceding train, scheduled to depart at 9:52 was running 6 minutes late. The (very pleasant and...