Recent content by Captain Bigwig

When it comes to towns "awkwardly" not on the railway network the granddaddy of them all has surely got to be Gosport. Population 81,000, no railway to Gosport itself, but Portsmouth Harbour station is just a few hundred metres away from Gosport town centre. Only problem is it's on the other...

If Wrexham Central - Bidston trains can manage a 56 minute journey time with a 4 min turnaround, then Euston - Curzon Street trains should have no problem doing a 52 minute journey time with an 8 minute turnaround. I'll grab my coat...

People are dismissing the idea, but didn't Northern do exactly this with Tornado on the Settle and Carlisle in 2017? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/14/settle-carlisle-railway-service-steam-train-tornado:

Indeed not!

I don't know if I'll miss them exactly, but it'll be a watershed moment on the rail network the day the final Class 08 is withdrawn.

Electrify everything proposed for electrification in the Traction Decarbonisation Network Strategy. Then four-track Didcot to Oxford.

Apologies for bumping an old thread, but in light of recent events I couldn't help thinking this was quite funny.

If the line from Didcot to Oxford was built via Abingdon I imagine it might have followed a route something along the lines of the dotted line on the map below. Slightly longer, but would have served a sizable town and avoided two river crossings. Appleford, Culham and Radley stations would...

Reston?

Or, we could save a lot of time and money by pointing out that Cross Country service 1C99 (2105 from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverly) goes round the sub full of passengers every day anyway, so there already is south suburban passenger service (of a sort). If a politician ever demanded the...

Thank you @Magdalia. I've updated my table with corrections accordingly.

I think we need some definitions here. Based on the OP's initial post it seems they're thinking of: locomotives hauling passenger services on main lines Which eliminates branch lines and narrow gauge. Based on that here's everything (I think) has been mentioned in this thread so far that...

The Great Western Mainline from Paddington to Didcot (53 miles), the only closed stations I can think of are those that were directly resited/ replaced (Hanwell was rebuilt 250m east of its original location, the original Maidenhead Riverside east of the Thames was replaced with the current...

LNER on Inverness to Perth as well. That's a line of very significant length, mostly single track, with multiple TOCs serving the stations on it. Single line between Usan and Montrose used by LNER, Caledonian Sleeper, Scotrail and Cross Country, but that's veering towards the "odd little...

Stop me if you've heard this before or you think it's crazy but I wanted to know if people on here thought there was any merit to this idea or not. If you put a couple of crossovers between the northern two mainline rail tracks and the tram tracks immediately west of Haymarket station in...