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I travelled to Aberdare just before Christmas and from what I could see from a single track line all the OHL equipment was in place from Abercynon right through to the buffer stops at Aberdare except there was no wiring installed from just north of Cwmbach to Aberdare, so the electrification...

I took a return journey from Cardiff Central to Aberdare yesterday. On the single track Aberdare branch, which runs from Abercynon to Aberdare, which is all single track apart from two previous installed passing loops, one through Mountain Ash Station and another just west of Fernhill, all the...

I do not want to be negative or cynical here but will Wigston South become the MML equivalent of Langley Burrell which is just east of Chippenham on the GWML as regards the limit of Electrification. With the current work all being completed in around four months time the current teams will...

Electrics are running on the 35 Route today, looks like they have too many for Route 40. Also Ee201, which is part of the Route 40 allocation, has still not run in service as yet, but they do have Ee172 Windrush75 on loan. GoAhead London - Route 35 Towards - Shoreditch Fleet Reg Destination...

I have just checked and you are dead right, it did show vehicle withdrawn from AL, but as has been pointed out it is running for ML now, my apologizes for my error.

Sunak wants to include any Northern Rail project, as Cardiff to Swansea is in South Wales, it does not qualify.

I am sorry if you know this already but I have found out a trick on the London Bus Finder website, I accidently entered a London Bus registration number with the last digit missing and to my surprise it listed all the buses with the first six digits of this registration number including two...

There have been previous threads about this topic but they all seem to be closed down so I thought I would start a new one. I saw this on the Network Rail Media website:- https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/signal-upgrade-set-to-modernise-cornwalls-railway Also this on the GWR...

Here is a bit Class 313 history, this involves 313 011 or 313 211 as it known today. When the Class 313 were being delivered in 1976/7, Hornsey depot initially did not have enough units to form six car trains for every service for the commencement of Class 313 working in 1976, I think they...

There is a big problem with any rail tunnel from England to Ireland, the Irish Rail gauge which is 5ft 3ins, the standard gauge is 4ft 8.5ins. We have had Stranraer and Larne rail tunnel talked about in the last few years, did anybody realise that any through trains from Scotland to say Belfast...

There was Transport Questions in the House of Commons today and one of the questions asked was from Rob Roberts who is a independent MP from Delyn to the Transport Minister Richard Holden which was "When will the North Wales line get electrified", the Transport Minister completely by passed the...

I see that some of the new Wright Electroliners are now running on Route 111 with the whole route to be operated by these new buses sometime next month, the rest of the route is operated by New Routemasters, so can someone tell me where are the redundant LT's going next month? Also I think that...

Ok fair enough but that is if everything goes like clockwork, if you have baggage you could be waiting at Old Oak Common for lifts for much more than 10 mins, but this is all pie in the sky, until it is all up and running everybody is having to guess on how good the connection between trains...

We will have a General Election before the end of January 2025 which is now less than two years away, at present it looks like we will have a Labour Party in charge. I am not saying that they will magic up the missing Billions to get HS2 into London earlier than 2041 which is currently being...

Thank you for clarifying the electrification boundaries. TFW are doing their best with the money they have available, even though it is not an ideal solution as regards leaving parts of Metro unwired.