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Oh, for the peace and quiet of loco/power car hauled coaches... What, in your experience, is the best and worst DMU for noise levels and vibration? Worst IMHO is class 150, best is 180 (even quieter when they break down...)

I arrived at 18.15 and a failed Brighton train had already been stuck there for half an hour. 30 minutes later still there, gave up and went to London Bridge instead. They got it moving very slowly but it stalled and rolled back into the station from the steep incline to Blackfriars. At...

Questions for drivers here: full line speeds are signposted, but how do you know what speeds to run at on yellows and double yellows? Is there a formula which says x% of full line speed, or do you have to learn it for each signal?

Every other country, to my knowledge, manages tilting trains with differential speed limits and does not go into all this complicated extra lineside stuff. The justification I have heard is that there are places where clearance is insufficient to allow the full tilt which line curvature...

Excuse me if this is a silly and ignorant question. As I understand it, the national grid is three phase AC and that in a 25kV AC electrification with modern traction - it is converted to single phase AC - rectified to DC -put through an inverter to convert back to 3 phase AC for the...

Booking advance on East Coast, want to use a compensation voucher got for late running on previous trip. Can't use it for online tickets, which we normally buy. I know it can only be used on EC, but if we buy the ticket at the local station, which is run by South Eastern, then will they accept...

Nicknames for rail companies, usually wittily disparaging, were common in the pre-grouping era e.g. the two railways that served Kent were the Slow Easy and Careless, and the Lose'em Smash'em and Turnover. I recently learnt that what used to be God's Wonderful Railway is now Worst Late...

Alternative time lines are a bit of a waste of time, and in the case of the UK rail business, often a bit depressing. They can be quite fun and instructive, however. In the general mess that was the post-1955 modernisation programme, one decision is generally regarded as far sighted: to go...