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Thinking recently about how the spine of Somerset could be better served, the titled service came to mind as a possibility. My idea is the West Somerset railway from Taunton-Bishops Lydeard would be upgraded to NR standard, and the latter station along with a new station at Norton Fitzwarren...

I'm planning to make this journey on Sunday ahead of a meeting in the Warminster area on Monday morning. Due to GWR's strike action decisions, it's not possible to simply change at Westbury, as no long distance trains are running. I've worked out the best option is to get a Cross Country to...

A colleague of mine, now working in a different part of the country in waste management, revealed that they have been collaborating with a TOC in this country looking at getting permission to allow toilet waste to be dumped on the track, after having been through a bioreactor toilet. Despite the...

A thread from last year on GWR reservations is locked, so have started a new thread for this: Travelling on the 12:03 from Paddington-Taunton (which amazingly wasn't disrupted given the current issues) earlier, I sat in Coach B, close to my bike, as all the seats were green with available on...

The New Year Honours list has come out as expected, but Liz Truss has decided to release her list at the same time, so I reckon the latter will get more coverage and be considerably more controversial: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67834723 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67843755 The...

I'm not entirely familiar with how stations that open these days get their finance, but my impression is government funding/approval is sought for a large part of the costs, particularly through the Restoring your railways scheme. But I was thinking recently if a station or old route was...

As per the title, all down trains appeared to be using P3 on the down main instead of P2 yesterday, which the majority normally use (P3 is normally some Cardiff turnarounds and a handful of through services close to other services in the timetable). Was there an infrastructure issue causing this...

I'm trying to book travel in December and January with GWR at the moment, but for some reason even dates 2 months away are not offering any advance tickets (not even showing a price option greyed out). Is there something going on that I'm not aware of regarding a change in policy, or something...

An interesting thread on Twitter from user James Noksie, detailing how his train was cancelled at Preston, other evening services were either full or also cancelled, so cabs were raked in to get all passengers onwards. He made it okay and looks like he'll get a full ticket refund, but...

This week GOP Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell froze on camera for the second time this summer, raising concerns about how fit he is for office. He is 81 years old, while the oldest Senator, Dianne Feinstein, is 90 years old, and the average age of all Senators is 64. Then of course we...

The old thread about speed restrictions that don't go away is locked so started a new one. Having regularly used this line over the last year, a 40mph temporary speed restriction exists for Fairwood Junction and most of the up avoiding line that seems to have been around for a long time (normal...

Mod Notes: Posts #1 - #79 originally in this thread. So when it's an privileged unelected grifter in trouble, there is swift Government action. But anyone else, including striking workers and/or anyone else struggling to pay bills, it's a long disruptive fight for pittances...

I use the RAIL magazine phone app and I have issues 985 and 987, but no 986. Is there a known app issue, or just something wrong with my account (or did they just not release one for some reason)?

As per the title: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-66051126 From a railway perspective I would expect this would revitalise freight in Cornwall from the peak of China Clay, but what sort of work, if any, might need doing to make it happen?

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #29 originally in this thread. The Government have another headache to deal with, both in general and an exacerbation of the sewage dumping problem that's been going on, which is having to rescue Thames Water: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66039170

mods note - split from this thread What is the plan for whatever 93s displace? It sounds like 66s are being displaced from key services, when I initially thought it would be 37s. Is the plan to move 93s onto some 66 services, then the 66s move to take over 37s, if there's gauge clearance?

Last week when passing through this station on non-stop runs, in both directions the services I was on slowed down before the station to something notably below the 90mph normally permissible (felt like around 40-50mph), despite no sign of other trains in the area restricting signalling, and no...

The hotly-anticipated migration figures are in for 2022, which while lower than the predicted 700k, are still a record 606,000. If Brexit has allowed us to have greater control of borders, the Government are doing a fantastic job of not allowing this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-65669832...

Apologies if I've missed an existing discussion on this: A lineside fire between Newport and Cardiff appears to be causing reduced services through the area until the 24th next week, due to equipment damage. I'm guessing they halved the number of running lines that can be used from 4 to 2...

Earlier this week while the UK news was dominated by asylum policy and its fallout, a very prominent US bank that supported tech firms, Silicon Valley Bank, collapsed (the second largest ever by asset value to collapse), and now the UK Government have got involved to support its former customers...