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My March 2024 UK rail photos are here: https://mktom.smugmug.com/2024/March-2024/UK-Rail-March-2024/ This includes: Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 March - A weekend in Brighton and Bognor Regis, with a diversion to Putney on the way home. Tuesday 12 March - A ride from Waterloo to Vauxhall to see...

It's been a busy start to the year with two major overseas trips so I'm a bit late creating this thread. I'll do January and February as one combined post: JANUARY My January 2024 UK rail photos are here: https://mktom.smugmug.com/2024/January-2024/UK-Rail-January-2024 This includes: Saturday...

The commuter rail systems in Cape Town and Jo'burg are though.

It's conspicuous that Robert Schwadl still hasn't added Cardiff to his excellent urbanrail.net website: https://www.urbanrail.net/eu/euromet.htm I wonder if it falls short of his standards for inclusion as a "metro" system on service frequency or electrification? He normally includes planned /...

Interestingly my wife's motion sickness, which normally doesn't occur on trains when facing forwards, was badly triggered around the Blisworth/Weedon area when we went to Liverpool last month. No issues after Rugby.

My December 2023 rail photos are here: https://mktom.smugmug.com/2023/December-2023/UK-Rail-December-2023 This includes: Monday 11 December - My first photos of an LNWR 5-car Class 730 on test, seen passing Wolverton, along with Avanti on the slow lines and some stored stock in the works...

My November 2023 rail photos are here: https://mktom.smugmug.com/2023/November-2013/UK-Rail-November-2023 This includes: Friday 3 November - An East West Rail tracklaying train at Claydon Junction, plus trains at Parson Street (Bristol) including a GWR HST. Saturday 4 November - The disused...

My October 2023 rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2023/October-2023/UK-Rail-October-2023/ This includes: Sunday 1 October - An RHTT working and "Pride" liveried Pendolino no. 390119 at London Euston. Wednesday 18 October - A single photo from Birmingham International...

My September 2023 rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2023/September-2023/UK-Rail-September-2023 This includes: Tuesday 12 September - A quick run from Blechley to Leighton Buzzard to experience the LNWR Class 319s one more time before they're replaced with 730s...

My August 2023 UK rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2023/August-2023/UK-Rail-August-2023 This includes: Tuesday 1 August - A c2c Class 720 passing Milton Keynes, along with a few other trains. Sunday 5 August - A combined visit to the Churnet Valley Railway and the...

My July 2023 UK rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2023/July-2023/UK-Rail-July-2023 This includes: Tuesday 11 July - A single photo from Watford Junction, on the return from Heathrow following my USA trip. Friday 14 July - London Underground (and Overground) trains...

I can't find his account. Can you link it? I absolutely love the Baker atlas, although it has a tendency to be a little over-optimistic with reinstatement proposals and heritage line extensions. I also wish it would extend the single/double track distinction to freight-only lines. Perhaps Joe...

My June 2023 rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2023/June-2023/UK-Rail-June-2023/ This includes: Saturday 10 June - Flying Scotsman bringing a charter through Bletchley. Sunday 18 June - A trip from Princes Risborough to High Wycombe with a stop at Saunderton...

In an optimistic scenario in which the battery trial is a success and further conversions happen (did GWR's purchase of VivaRail assets include the other unconverted D-stock vehicles?) they would also be well suited to the Windsor, Marlow, and Henley branches. That would use up the three LNWR...

My May 2023 rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2023/May-2023/UK-Rail-May-2023/ This includes: Saturday 6 May - Two Class 47s at Milton Keynes on a coronation troop special, plus some East West Rail progress at Bletchley. Saturday 13 May - A visit to the Cardiff area and...

My April 2023 rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2023/April-2023/UK-Rail-April-2023 This includes: Saturday 1 April - The two disused railways (LNWR and GCR) in Brackley, Northants. Tuesday 4 April - The return of first-generation DMUs to the main line, and the...

My March 2023 rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2023/March-2023/UK-Rail-March-2023/ This includes: Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 March - A trip to Brighton and Eastbourne, going out from London St. Pancras and back to Victoria, also visiting Lewes. Tuesday 21 March - Trains...

This actually calls at Ridgmont. That'll be the first train to do so in 2023.

Love footage from those southern ECML stations Andy. You get such a good side-on view of anything. Nice work. Here's some video from the last day of Mountsorrel DMU services with Iris at the Great Central Railway:

How much would it actually cost to do cheapest-option platform extensions at the intermediate stations to accommodate 2x23m? Some of the stations (e.g. Fenny) are long enough already. If that had been done back when the signalling was upgraded in 2006 we'd have 172s on the line now.