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I've noticed today that Transport for Wales have been operating more trains stopping at all stations in the morning and evening on the line between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, like they did on Sundays pre-pandemic. And that has resulted tonight in a Class 175 (of which I believe there is...

It has always appeared a bit odd to me (although I can see why it is done to avoid confusion) that station announcers say things like "the xx:xx service to Bristol Temple Meads, calling at Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads" with the fact it's calling at Bristol Temple Meads seemingly completely...

Reading an article from a local newspaper this morning, Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski seems to believe that there is a strong case for electrification of the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury line, citing environmental and economic reasons. These are credible, however I'm very skeptical that it...

Reading this month's Modern Railways' interview with the Network Rail North West and Central MD there's something that I just can't get my head around. He says that one of the reasons for congestion on the Castlefield corridor is the large amount of trains going through to the airport, caused by...

Being someone who finds a fair bit of pleasure in sitting and deducing diagrams from sources such as RTT, I'm wondering whether, if a significant amount of us club together to do local lines/lines of interest, we could get a database of diagrams together that would aim to give pretty good...

I'm not sure if anyone has ever brought this up before, but I'm intrigued... If two units are working in multiple, and one is clearly much better than the other, will passengers who know nothing about trains tend to get on the nicer one? It came to mind after seeing 2 class 153s working with a...