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Does anybody have any information about which train caught fire last night causing the closure of the Calder Valley line between Manchester Victoria and Rochdale at Monsall?

Does anybody know what caused the damage to the overhead wires today between Leeds-Skipton and why the complete line had to be closed? It does look like a train was stranded at Keighley and couldn't go no further according to track diagrams. It does sound serious as apparently the fire brigade...

Why is the above service only running as far as Stafford at the moment and not all the way through to Piccadilly? Also what's happening to the staff who crew the service when the service gets to Stafford? Also why after this service gets to Stafford does it sometimes run to Nuneaton before...

Does anybody know what actually happened at Low Moor today causing many services in/out of Leeds to be delayed this evening? I did hear vandalism but in what way? Was the signaling fault between Barnsley & Leeds connected with the problems at Low Moor in anyway?

Does anybody know what the above actually means? It seems 09:42 Manchester-Sheffield service last Friday terminated at Chinley for this exact reason according to Real Time Trains: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:W41507/2022-11-25/detailed Whatever it was it delayed services...

Yesterday (2/4) I travelled on 20:13 Crewe-Manchester Piccadilly service and noticed that it was in Reverse Formation (1st Class at the front heading towards Manchester) and have a few queries: 1> How would this have happened as 1st Class is nearly always at the front heading towards London...

Does anybody know what happened this afternoon/evening to warrant all the delays to trains from Birmingham-Wolverhampton? According to Realtime trains it was due to disorder but according to staff at Wolverhampton it was due to a broken down train, unless the 2 reasons are connected. I know a...

Does anybody know why one of Scotrails 170s ran from Haymarket-Crewe C.S. today? I just happened to see it going through Leeds tonight at about 18:55

A relation had planned on coming to Manchester today on 09:54 XC service from Truro-Birmingham New Street then changing there onto 15:57 Birmingham New St-Manchester Piccadilly service, now she was booked to travel on the above services and had tickets but because of today's events she was...

Does anybody know whether there will be any cheap Advance Return Tickets this year from Redruth-Manchester Piccadilly like there has been in the past? If so when will they be relesed?

Does anybody know why the above unit has been back at Newton Heath Depot recently? It now seems to be back in service but being used on various Newton Heath diagrams including Blackpool South-Preston services. Are there any plans for it to return to service on its usual Barrow-Carlisle route?

1> Does anybody know why this service runs virtually daily? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:G82288/2021-11-16/detailed#allox_id=1 I normally see the stock in Platform 2 at Manchester Victoria, it runs ECS from York and then runs ECS again back to York at 14:00. The route it...

Is there a reason why at the moment Northern's Manchester Victoria-Stalybridge service is a replacement bus every Sunday? I can't see it being down to engineering works as TPE are still running their services from Victoria via Stalybridge. Is it down to Northern not having enough staff on...

Not to sure how its been caused as not much rain has fallen recently but this morning added to the engineering works in Miles Platting Summit Tunnel is closed in both directions due to heavy flooding in the tunnel just found this on National Rail website...

Not to sure which tunnel but apparently debris have been found in a tunnel between Bolton-Blackburn by Network Rail Staff and as a result all lines through the tunnel have been closed until at least 13:00 today with Rail Replacements operating between Bolton-Blackburn and some trains diverted...

Does anyone know or have any idea of when National Express routes will go back to anything near normal? With a number of bus companies almost going back to pre-covid times this weekend I was wondering whether National Express had any plans of revising their coach services to operate back to...

1> How long is the railway at Earlestown going to be shut for after the fire yesterday? 2> Did the fire damage the railway in anyway and if so how?

Problems between Preston-Wigan at the moment with all lines blocked due to overhead wire problems meaning all lines blocked until 14:00 at least according to National Rail this morning.

Currently there's a Landslip at Weaver Junction which is resulting all lines being closed today so repairs can be carried out, Avanti Trains cant run via Runcorn at the moment so Buses are replacing trains from Lime Street-Crewe via Runcorn apparently at the moment until further notice. London...

I'm travelling 1st Class on 09:15 Piccadilly-Euston service on 27-7 and was wondering what I can expect from 1st Class Lounge at Piccadilly as I've never used one before?