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Currently in Poland, and used the extensive trams in Wroclaw, Kraków and Warsaw. Something is very noticeable, and that is how fast they travel amongst traffic and around tight corners. Why are ours so pathetically slow, Sheffield for example? Foreign trams seem so fuss free.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10173625/Leeds-tram-network-consolation-scrapped-HS2.html

70s!? Didn't think that would be allowed....

A bit of news from the Enfield incident. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10138717/Train-driver-arrested-testing-positive-cocaine-crashed-station-buffers.html

Bit of a long shot this, and not sure where to ask. Having an interest in narrow gauge and miniature railways, I suddenly, for no particular reason, remembered seeing a narrow gauge railway from the Harrogate Line. This would be when I was a teenager, late 90s maybe early 2000s. I seem to...

I have just read that nobody will be able to enter Israel without a booster jab. Now, I don't wish to go to Israel for now, but it raises a wider question. What if other countries start a similar policy, yet we are not allowed or entitled to have the booster. Will we be confined to the UK for...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/bbc-news-article-rail-industry-urges-workers-not-to-spurn-the-train.222201/page-5 I cannot think of anything worse than working from home. What a depressing thought, in the house all week and losing touch with work mates. Sad really.

No Trains or TramTrain through Rotherham Central today, in the early hours. Signalling equipment maliciously set on fire at Brinswoh Level Crossing.

Reading a recent article, I noticed that the infrastructure has been given up by Network Rail. Where does this leave the Signalling side of things, a new Signalling Centre to be built at Taffs Well apparently, will this be staffed by Network Rail Signallers?

It's a depressing question, one I fear the answer to. Do you think we will have yet more Lockdowns to come? It seems to be circulating todays media. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9870649/Boris-Johnson-backs-plans-firebreak-lockdowns-needed-winter-months-NHS-faces-chaos.html#comments

Finally some movement on the new stop. https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/public-consultation-launches-for-new-tram-train-stop-and-park-ride

This would be a very foolish idea by TOCs if they want the passengers to come back. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9764335/Transport-Secretary-Grant-Shapps-backs-mandatory-face-masks-crowded-public-transport.html

It's going to be an interesting year for employees by the looks of it. https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-launches-bust-the-transport-workers-pay-freeze-campaign/

Just wondered what the general consensus is regarding this news story, surrounding a member of staff addressing the passengers with Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls...

Having started travelling by train again recently, something is really getting my back up. Why, oh why, do we get the generally very clear, very concise and straight to the point, automated announcements, which are then immediately followed up by the Guard wibbling on about exactly the same as...

Work is speeding along on the new DB Schenker Container Terminal on the site of the old Tinsley Yard. Yet more positive news for the Intermodal Traffic.

As its looking highly unlikely the Hope Valley scheme is going to happen, the local MPs clearly have a good imagination to believe that a few stations on the line out of Sheffield could be reopening...

Bit of an odd question, but one I have never found an answer to. Car Engines are measured in CC. So, what is the CC (Cubic Capacity) of a Railway Locomotive. A class 66 for example?

Given the distinct lack of passengers, and uncertainty as the whether or not they will return, should we stop investing in the railways until we know if the passengers that were there before Covid 19 ever come back? Its a genuinely worrying time for the railway. I came back from Brighton to St...

Sorry, yet another post to add to the many regarding Covid. I went on a Jaunt around the Network with our tickets the other day, starting on Northern from Wakefield to Leeds, no restrictions or announcements on where and how to sit, good. Leeds to Skipton, same, and the guard even came to...