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Hi all, There is currently demolition work taking place next to the railway immediately NW of Stafford station, and opposite the former site of W.G. Bagnall locomotive builders, now a residential development "Bagnall Meadows". A few weeks ago demolition work on the building closest to the...

Hi everyone, Stafford No. 5 signal box has on the front of it what would appear at face value to be not a particularly useful sign.... There's an obvious answer of course, so I guess my question is more how / why was there a significant likelihood that a situation could arise in which...

Hi everyone, I know the 125 entered service in 75-76 but i'm having trouble working out when operation on what is basically today's XC services out of MAN (Macclesfield - Stoke - B'ham etc.) would have began. The WikiPedia page ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCity_125 ) has a photograph of one at...

Hi all, Is this a permitted route for Stafford to London Terminals? Would need to break at Reading in both directions, same day outbound, overnight break on the return - pretty sure that's all OK but just wanted to double check... Ta!

Can anyone tell from your computers or what-not whether the 0727 Manchester Piccadilly to Bournemouth service will be operated by a pair of Voyagers or just a single unit? Catching it down the line - gonna be chocka whatever happens but if it's a single I'm getting up early and picking up the...

Hi everyone, Can anyone have a [n educated] guess at what daily scheduled service has the most / equal most calling points of all scheduled services in the UK? Thanks!

How is this stuff supposed to work? I would never trespass on the railways but I have frequently been waiting for a train and seen this stuff crossing gaps between fences and the edge of a platform or around level crossings, and thought to myself, that if I was intent on trespassing then I...

Is there some kind of history / tradition behind this announcement? Was it a BR standard or something that has persisted into modern day usage? The final "all change" of course being completely redundant, which is why I've always wondered if there is a little more to it...!?

I know ultimately one should make oneself aware of your ticket restrictions at point of purchase - FastTicket machines display them, Human ticket machines will either tell you or will tell you if you ask, but occasionally i've found myself wanting to find out after purchase, typically when...

Hi everyone, Some time ago I was watching a mini-documentary on HS1 (10 minute segment on BBC news or something like that, can't quite remember!) but something stuck with me - It mentioned that it was the first major national infrastructure project to use a new method of project...