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It looks like the problem points have been fixed as both lines are now open between Gloucester Yard Junction and Horton Road Junction

The local politicians are not in favour of building a new station by Morrisons as they think that the current station would then probably close - the train operators would be unlikely to want to stop at the two stations, half a mile apart. The operators would be even less inclined to reverse...

I don't know what the point of this would be. The time penalty would be around 25 minutes if it was possible and for the folks travelling to Gloucester, passing through the city on the avoiding line will be rather annoying to put it mildly. The railways would then lose their time saving...

Another standard premium question! I've bought split tickets from Glasgow Central to Preston and Preston to Birmingham New Street for the start of September, both with Avanti. I have to change trains at Preston anyway. If I sit in standard premium at Glasgow, when the train manager comes...

New video on You Tube showing the TBMs being made ready for launch at Northolt and their names

I'd argue that Cheltenham is a winner now as despite losing it's centrally located terminus, it's current station now has every passenger train that passes through it now call. With the expansion of the town, the station is now definitely part of the urban area and is only a 10 - 15 min walk...

It would have been helpful for space to have been left for a junction just south of Birmingham Interchange to leave the London bound HSL and then curve round southern Birmingham to meet the cross country line heading for Bristol. Initially this could have joined the current route south of...

I agree. The logical option is to make the Bristol - Worcester/Malvern service hourly when the Metro West phase 2 begins if I remember correctly with additional Bristol - Gloucester hourly service. My idea would be to add a hourly Gloucester to Birmingham local service calling at Cheltenham...

I heard a BBC news report yesterday talking about the construction 'starting' along with its benefits and then they spoke to an anti HS2 group who were saying that despite 22,000 jobs being created, over 70,000 jobs are being lost over the route of phase 1. How can the BBC allow pre-recorded...

I'm not sure how advanced the station design is but I would envisage a layout like this, starting from the south of the station: An island platform serving the GWR main lines where trains generally don't call except in emergencies or engineering works on the other lines. I agree that stopping...

How about extending one of the Avanti Euston to New Street Penolinos through to Manchester to replace one of the XC Voyagers every hour? (Or diverting one of the Euston - Manchester services to run via New Street each hour?) A Voyager could then be sent to Liverpool every hour instead of one of...

Has anyone been successful in receiving a refund for a cancelled Out/SNCF train by claiming after the date of travel or for having to purchase a higher priced ticket for another train? I was on holiday in Italy over the New Year and was due to travel on the 07:39 from Turin to Paris on Sunday...

I think the Mayfield Depot is hosting the Warehouse Project series of music events (raves) this year, having outgrown its previous location of Store Street car park under Piccadilly station

I think you'll find Gloucester's population is larger than Cheltenham's. Its just that Cheltenham's station sits on the mainline and is easy for trains to call at, where as Gloucester's is just off the mainline and forces north-south trains to reverse which typically takes 10 minutes so I'd...

After travelling from Cardiff to Paddington and back on Saturday, my observations of the South Wales route is as follows: Wiring appears complete going westwards almost as far as the eastern portal to the Severn Tunnel - maybe one wire run to complete to connect up to the conductor rail in the...

But why is this required at present? Surely the first objective would be to work towards providing a proper hourly service on the Cheltenham - Gloucester - London, Bristol - Gloucester - Cheltenham - Ashchurch - Worcester and Cardiff - Chepstow - Lydney - Gloucester - Cheltenham routes that...

Cheltenham also receives about 55 XC services a day which Gloucester doesn't, linking it to other major UK cities in addition to London. I and others often find it easier to get dropped off or picked up at Cheltenham station if travelling on a XC service, instead of the hassle of waiting for a...

One option to reduce the number of terminating trains at Cheltenham is to extend the London services to Worcester and fulfil an aim of 2 tph here without having to re-double more of the North Cotswold line (even though it should be fully redoubled). By running fast between Gloucester and Swindon...

I thought the long term plan was 1tph starting from Gloucester to Paddington, and another 1tph from Cheltenham to Paddington (avoiding Gloucester to reduce travel time), so 2tph between Stonehouse and Paddington. May I ask where you found this information?

I thought Operation Princess was only part of the reorganisation of Cross Country trains and therefore didn't include Paddington services to Gloucester? I seem to remember Gloucester (and Cheltenham) each generally had 1 northbound and 1 southbound train every 2 hours with services calling at...