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Having only recently returned to a 15-minute frequency on most routes, Merseyrail have from today reduced New Brighton services to half hourly. They blame “a number of technical issues”. Anyone got any idea what these are in addition to a shortage of units?

Yesterday I travelled on 1S69 the 13:05 London Euston to Glasgow Central service. Realtime Trains correctly showed this to be a 9-car Pendolino. However the customer information screens at intermediate stations advertised 11-cars. Additionally PA announcements directed customers without seat...

There seem to be frequent instances of service disruption owing to “trespassers on the railway”. Is anyone able to decode this for me? I can understand that if a disturbed person is threatening to jump in front of trains services will have to be halted. But if someone is witnessed dashing...

Many airports worldwide are named after a celebrated individual – Charles de Gaulle, John F Kennedy, Leonardo da Vinci, Indira Gandhi, Ben Gurion, and perhaps in the lower league George Best or John Lennon. But what about stations? Obviously, Dublin has Pearse and Connolly. Then there are the...

‘Central Station’ sounds rather grand, akin perhaps to a German Hauptbahnhof. Some of the UK’s Central Stations are indeed impressive – Glasgow C is a good example and in a different way so too is Windsor & Eton C. But others maybe do not quite live up to expectations – Wrexham C, Redcar C and...

For many years Liverpool Lime Street station had two Platform 1’s - one of them in the main trainshed and the other serving the underground Wirral Line. I see that the underground platform now seems to be known as Platform A and assume this has been renumbered to overcome any confusion. Does...