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Just gone past it at West Ealing sidings. Front of locomotive wheels a good couple of feet away from their respective rails. Up main very congested as you would expect

Thanks for the info everyone. Its a pity, as this is a step in the wrong direction in terms of peak capacity and loadings on the services I have used have been anecdotally very high.

Hello Apologies if this has already been asked but I couldn’t find a thread on it. I’ve noticed that the peak semi-fast 387 services that are limited stop after reading are now mostly 8 car formations, having always been 12, even through Covid. Is this a temporary thing due to unit...

Unsurprisingly the colour of the walls were not the focus of my attention :D

As a passenger on a winter 1990s cross country service we were pulling into Leamington Spa and I saw a young couple painting (decorating) in the nude with (of course) the light on. It was one of those period properties close to the station and had large Georgian windows so was very obvious to...

Fascinating - thanks for the photos and explanation. Do the train wheels sit in the skates on the same surface as they interface the railhead or does it sit on the flanges (presumably not as they are not designed to take the train’s weight ?

From Twyford and Maidenhead towards Paddington the GWR services stop much less frequently than the TFL services and of course GWR will run a train that is more than 10 minutes late whereas TFL will cancel even when running only 2 TPH, so I hope TFL don’t get all paths on the reliefs 1637829441...

Hi all, I've raised what (at least) I perceive to be a safety issue with Eurotunnel customer services and not had a direct response to my concerns: I'm keen to know other people's opinions on the matter or hear any professional knowledge anyone has. To set the scene, I sometime cross the...

And of course without any “harsh” LED lighting accompaniment

Will the new 2+2 seats be “ironing boards” ? If so, my crystal ball tells me that we can expect lots of seat chat along the lines of “I preferred the old comfy seats in 2+3 configuration”

There is a lot of temporary fencing around as the subterranean section still appears to have construction work going on, the reason for that fencing wasn't clear when I was there

Saw Mark Wild (crossrail CEO) and assorted other big cheeses getting a tour of the newly opened Eastbourne terrace entrance to Paddington mainline this morning. Didn’t want to attempt a closer photo of them lest the camera police get me.

Never thought I would type this but I preferred the seat chat and class 800 9 car vs 5. Funny how things turn out !

And tunnel portals handed over and full length units running ?.

Western rail access to Heathrow ?

Only been to Luton once...got mugged by a gang of youths. Won’t be going back.

Exactly right. Then the state would pay for the worst case scenario every time. No private company could or would take the level risk being expected by some on this forum. Mega projects like cross rail have unique challenges and I don’t think there is a person or computer in the world who could...

Went on the watercress line once and was looking (not hanging) forwards out of the window only to get an enormous piece of black ash stuck to my eye - so big it nearly covered my pupil. Spent the whole journey to Alresford in the toilets trying to wash it out. My wife was less than impressed at...

Well that was eventful: 9P65 13.32 LHR T5 had another issue before departure and to make up time we ran fast from T2/3 to paddington on the up main (photo passing Hayes looking across to platform 1 and Ealing Broadway looking across to platform 3) Bombardier guys onboard were really nice but of...

9T67 13.02 PAD to LHR left about 11L due to incoming service delayed at Hanwell. When I boarded an onboard member of bombardier staff was on the phone talking about a reset. It’s well beyond the ERTMS/AWS boundary so curious to know what the delay was attributed to ?