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Thankyou! I guessed right but wasn't sure if it was Har, Ha, Hay, Brr or Borough. I once had some non locals ask for a return to Coss Elli For moment I thought is that somewhere in Wales? They meant Coseley. Pronounced Coze-lee

Grand Central instead of New Street. Arrgh please! Owen Street for Tipton as previously mentioned is VERY common, and Cotteridge for Kings Norton also. I think WMR have now put this on the running in boards at the station.

Habrough. Never knew how this was meant to be pronounced. As a guard with Central we had some through workings from Salop to Grimsby. Don't think anyone at my end had heard of the place either. No one corrected me on my undoubtedly dodgy pronunciation during the opening announcements.

Deep clean and repaint. New UAT toilet, all new seat bases, moquette, carpets, ceiling and panels. Phase 2 will involve new PIS, WiFi, sockets and passenger count equipment which will be later this year.

323217 was successful operating test train 2T95 New St to Rugeley and back.

2T95 16.46 New St - Rugeley TV also booked tomorrow. Should be a 323 for PTI tests. A 350 doing the run on 14.04.19

They started replacing the signage at Hamstead yesterday. No idea why the cross city stations haven't been painted yet. I did hear that WMT were speaking to AVFC at some point to discuss Aston and Witton being done out in club colours. Not sure if it ever came to anything. Theyd probably want...

Don't forget come May units will split and join so the majority of New St Euston diagrams will be 8 car. My concern is those Walsall locals in the AM peak being formed of 170s. Unless they're all going to be 2x 2 cars nobody beyond Tame Bridge will get on.

What has WMT got to do with it? The OHL might have been granted approval but Network Rail haven't yet completed the platform lengthening required for the 4 car 350s. They also won't have enough EMUs to run both the Rugeley - Euston and the local Walsall trains all day until TPE hand over the...

Bescot complete as of today. In this weeks handrail lottery the result is ... Orange. We will see what happens with Walsall.

West Midlands Signalling centre was evacuated for approx 30 mins so not just the Snow Hill lines! Never put all your eggs in one basket. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk