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There was a relatively short time period after the introduction of IC125s when the GWML was the fastest line in the country (and one of the fastest in the world at the time). But this triggered a huge growth in longer distance commuting from Reading, Swindon etc. and it ceased to be a long...

They do go wildly overbudget, but road projects are undertaken for multiple clients - local authorities, regional bodies, as well the national bodies. So even if National Highways cuts back on schemes or progammes - and there are plenty of examples of that - there are plenty of local bypasses or...

That address is on the other side of the line to the slip: Streetview doesn't show the houses affected as they're off a private road. It's not clear to me if there was an extension built after the original house.

Which begs the question, why did the disposal of the 319s go ahead if the 323s were delayed? Why not keep them on for another 6 months?

Quite. Seems odd that the withdrawal went ahead when the Class 323s were delayed coming up from the Midlands.

Realtimetrains shows the 331s working all Leeds north-west lines.

Sounds like a nightmare for those putting diagrams together.

3-car Class 331s are now running on the Leeds North-West routes. My understanding was that this was going to happen when the platform extensions currently underway were completed, allowing 2x3-car services to run. Unfortunately it seems the units are being run already, before the platform works...

It's got to be controlled - you can be prosecuted for causing it to spread. Unfortunately there is knotweed all over the railway network so NR are probably best placed to deal with it. AFAIUI the Wortley Curve was held by BRB (Residuary) Ltd, which was responsible for all the residual bits of...

Great to hear Network Rail have bought it. I will have to ask them for a knotweed jam making franchise...

Sounds like a plan. Apparently it's full of Japanese knotweed - but it is actually edible and has a nice lemony rhubarb taste. We could turn it all into jam and make our money back in no time.

Sold for £47,000 https://bidonline-propertyauctions.eddisons.com/auctions/8799/ibpu10149/lot-details/4fa0f3d2-8cbe-4a10-a54c-b0d800f74f83 Buyer not stated, but I think that's standard.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of these proposals, this is looking at the past with BR blue tinted spectacles. Long distance fares have been set at commercial rates since 1968, in other words whatever the market can bear. BR regularly jacked up fares in the face of high demand rather than...

Twitter isn't the general public, and especially not rail twitter.

Remember TRU is costing 11 billion. Messing around with an existing railway is very expensive. We haven't built a transport tunnel in hard rock in the UK for some time, but we have for various other applications - water industry and mining in particular.

Where did they promise this? I've never seen it. Euston-Glasgow is possible in 3h53 'albeit non-stop', but that's not really relevant for a standard timetabled train in full traffic. The aim of TRU is to achieve reliable journey time and capacity improvements within the limitations of the...

It will be 40 minutes at best.

It's owned by Railway Paths whose remit is developing old railway alignments as footpaths and cycleways. So it's surplus to their requirements and I guess they see it as a liability. TBH it's probably better off owned by someone else.

Acknowledging the operational difficulties, nevertheless given the price of the land it seems a no-brainer for WYCA or a local council to purchase for potential future use.

While there were certainly elements of stop-go to investment I'd argue BR had got it reasonably together from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. The rollout of IC125 and associated linespeed improvements seem to have been done pretty well, though no doubt there were issues at the time. There was...