Recent content by barbette165

I disagree, the gateline on platf one provides a very convenient entrance when travelling towards Tyseley and the train is due. I think it’s probably a minute quicker from crossing Moor St to the platform than going via the main entrance and overbridge. Once HS2 and Curzon Street is open, it...

There's been a news item published today to say that the trial was successful and dogs will be permanently allowed on the trams. https://www.westmidlandsmetro.com/dogs-allowed-on-metro-trams-following-successful-trial/

I spoke with a guard senior conductor last week when he was walking through the train before departing from Stratford checking tickets and asking if anybody wanted Bearley or Claverdon. I told him that in the public timetable there was no longer any mention of them being request stops. He said...

The crew must have realised their error because, according to RTT, they waited for 3 minutes at Furze Platt and departed on time.

A train has two sides.

New gates have been installed, although open when I came through this afternoon. The previous 2 wide gates, one for entry and one for exit, have been replaced by 3 gates - two normal width gates, one for entry and one for exit and a bi-directional wide gate.

There’s going to be a problem whatever name is chosen, if you include ’Willenhall’ as part of the name, then there will be two new stations in the West Midlands with very similar names 35 miles apart. But if you exclude Willenhall, then theres the risk that people who have been told “There’s a...

Are they extending the third rail?

The work they are doing is an intermediate activity to re-open the subway between the two platforms. The subway was closed when the work started and remained closed when things stopped for the re-design. The diversionary route between the 2 platforms is about 500 metres.

On iOS the station name does appear. The version history in the app says that, for version 9.6.4 released a month ago, support is added for new stations, one of which is Headbolt Lane. Perhaps you need to force an update of the app?

On the Network Rail site there’s a track access request from Chiltern for type training of the class 196 and route training between Oxford and Milton Keynes Central.

I suspect the 25X is nothing more than a positioning journey that would otherwise run empty to/from Rugby

I don't think that this has previously been mentioned, the second XC service per hour between Birmingham and Nottingham that was withdrawn in May because of platform capacity at New Street is shown as being reinstated.

Chiltern has been updated on RTT. The missing Saturday morning northbound journeys from Banbury have re-appeared.

I can see a departure this Friday (14:30 from Lyon) on both renfe.com and raileurope.com