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Some of you may have noticed that the Working Timetable (WTT) is now in the form of an array of XL Spreadsheets. At the same time, they've done a few changes, such as changing the letter coding that appears in the middle of a timing and they seem to have omitted showing the arrival time at...

The LNER 1230 train from Kings Cross to Newcastle appears to have an unadvertised extension. My brother-in-law has booked a holiday in London, and gets train tickets as part of the deal. On the train back, he's been booked on the 1230 from KGX on Monday 27th May, which is supposed to arrive in...

I'm doing some personal research into how current Cross Country and London - Newbury - Plymouth services enter and exit the new Reading station, particularly on the west side. My main data sources have been the Network Rail Track Maps on the National Electronic Sectional Appendix and the WTT...

In about September 2012, the Government announced a £9bn investment program of electrification. Some of the lines mentioned were... 1) Preston to Blackpool North, 2) Preston to Manchester Piccadilly, and... 3) Liverpool to Manchester Piccadilly I assumed that 2) was via Bolton & Chorley...

About 3 years ago, from somewhere on the Network Rail web-site, I managed to get hold of the Dwell and Turn-round times for stations on the network. I've recently been going through them, and I find that certain data is (or was) missing, e.g. the Dwell Times for an HST at Port Talbot and Neath...

On Saturday afternoon, at about 1.30 p.m. whilst on a route 4 bus in Edinburgh, I passed over the Haymarket - Slateford line on Slateford Road near the junction with Ashley Terrace. I saw GCR power car 43484 heading towards Slateford. It was 43484 by itself, under its own power. Why? Route...

Are there any railway professionals out there that can explain the WTT? Since I've come across it, I've found it to be a fascinating document. However, NR seem to use a whole raft of letters and/or symbols within times (e.g. "07*OP53"). Is there a look-up table somewhere that explains what they...

With judicious use of search words, you can usually find most data off the Network Rail web-site, but I can't find the list of dwell times and turn-round times for stations. I've got an old copy that I transferred onto a Word Doc, but that was a couple of years ago. I particularly want to know...

I've just downloaded the PDF of the National Rail Timetable, and I've spotted something on the front sheet of it. NR are asking for "volunteers...to be involved in the draft and final editing stage of the National Rail Timetable production..." By the looks of it, NR are asking for members of...

About 10 years ago, there was a bookshop immediately next door to a Bus Station at Cromwell Street, Kingston-upon-Thames in south-east London. It was called The Smokebox, though its name wasn't prominent on the outside. I used to go there a few times about 8-9 years ago and bought (mainly) old...

I think we're all familiar with wheel arrangements for diesels and electric locos - Co-Co meant that there were 3 axles on each bogie, and each axle had its own traction motor. On a B-B, there was 1 motor driving both bogie axles. OK, that's fair enough. What about Class 31's? They have...

Here's a good one. There appears to be a web-site (http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/) that specialises in making requests to public bodies using FOI (Freedom of Information). I pondered using them to try and get some Working Timetable information out of Network Rail. But, according to the site, and...

This is outright theft, but I’ve ‘found’ this lot from another forum. There’s a site that you can do on-line jigsaws of photos sent in by the public and I’ve found a few railway jigsaws. You can also convert any of you photos into jigsaws. The best jigsaws (in my opinion) are…...

This is going to sound really idiotic, but what time standard do the TOCs and/or NR use for train departures? Similarly, what standard do train staff use when they are at home? The BBC used to have a clock on BBC1 and BBC2 which, to all intents and purposes, was spot on. I believe that these...

I read today that 3 £100M contracts have been awarded for the Bathgate - Drumgelloch line. New stations are to be built at Armadale, Caldercruix and Drumgelloch. I'm guessing that the contracts are for:- 1) Laying down new line and (possibly) doubling the single line sections (e.g. at Uphall)...

OK chaps, this is a beauty - in technical terms. In the early 1980's, my late father was in charge of the railway network within the Sellafield Nuclear Complex. This also used to include an array of sidings outside the BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels Ltd) site that was (technically) accessible by...

It's been suggested by one of the mods that I post this message in this section, even though it's neither a Preserved nor a Heritage railway! On and off for a number of years, I've been documenting closed lines and stations. This stems from a book I bought in the late 1980's called "Complete...

For over 20 years, I have given myself the task of re-designing certain parts of the current Passenger Timetable (PTT) to "Clockface" timing, and increasing the frequency of services. I've confined myself to what approximates to the "InterCity" network. In modern parlance, this means Tables 26...