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A curious date for these to start! In addition to the long established 724 Harlow - Hertford - Welwyn GC - Hatfield - St Albans - Watford - Uxbridge - Heathrow, there will be two new 7xx services run by Arriva as follows: 721 Luton to Hemel Hempstead New service and part of the 'Connect Herts'...

Prompted by a trip last week, it would appear that there may be bits of current infrastructure needed in the past for Eurostar before HS1 (and before that the boat trains) which are no longer needed, eg fast tracks through the middle of Ashford, which could then be redeveloped in better ways to...

With the closure of Peterborough signal box (PSB/ROC/IECC or equivalent) and the transfer of control to York, where is the furthest signal controlled track away from the signal box (ROC/PSB/whatever) in GB? I have a feeling that Cardiff controls something in the north of Wales for example...

Man at Seat 61 has published plans by Renfe to run a train into Spain in 2024 possibly Madrid to Lisbon under open access rules. This depends on the new fast line from Elvas to Evora being completed in December 2024. This led me to look at what current timings are now and it would apear...

This was prompted by discussion in another thread about the close proximity of Wigan North Western and Wigan Wallgate. Looking at Google Street view it would appear that a bridge footway of something like 300m could be installed to link the stations within the barrier lines. Havng to walk out...

I was just watching the new Man at Seat 61 video of the Fort William sleeper. At Rannoch Moor the line was constructed by floating it over the boggy land, as is also the case at Chat Moss on the Liverpool - Manchester line (and possibly other places I am not aware of). This prompted some...

There's an impressive video in the Carstairs thread showing how fast the east to south curve now is with the works done so far, see the links on this page: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/carstairs-overhead-line-equipment-renewals-and-upgrade.235318/page-4 This demonstrates that dealing...

There is frequent discussion on this forum of for example the 379s or the 350s made surplus from their homes by more recent EMUs. The problem at the moment for rolling stock is not enough wires so surplus EMUs and not enough DMUs, with the 150s getting near to life end. So a question for the...

Covent Garden to Leicester Square is the shortest gap between stations on the London Underground. My understanding is this then leads to bunching of trains on the Piccadilly which doesn't help a very busy line. So questions for the engineers and signallers: Will new signalling be able to...

Each day Northern runs a dmu up the East Coast (I assume very empty) to form the 0708 from Chathill to Newcastle and Metro Centre. In the evening there is a run to Chathill from Metro Centre to Chathill with a return which i guess probably has limited use, at least north of Morpeth. Would there...

I've just finished this rather nice cab ride video of Birmingham to London Marylebone: . The video makes the speed limits very clear and it's most impressive how much of the line from Banbury to Northolt is 100mph (aside from High Wycombe). It's also interesting that the line north of Banbury...

Prompted by seeing a pic of the new platforms at Bletchley with no exit to the town centre across the road. The time wasted would need many miles of high speed train running to compensate. My own station at Hatfield faces the old town and to get to the entrance I have to walk past the north...

If there were no through lines at Lancaster, there would be no need for approach control to the turnouts (40 mph going south in the cabride video I just watched) to the platforms off the main lines. That would speed up all the services which call there and I assume this is virtually every train...

At the risk of making the 455s the new 442s as the solution for every problem, is there any feasilble way to top and tail a small set of de-tractionned units with a loco and run them as replacements for the 171 dmus allowing them to be cascaded elsewhere? The key advantage I see of the 455s is...

Why on our line do the 717s have different stopping positions from 6 car which was the 313s? I am assuming the 6 car signs could now go?

If Wigston South to Nuneaton is electrified, plus Carlton Road to Junction Road Junction, then there is a WCML relieving electric freight route at minimal extra cost. That means of course this Govt won't do it, but it ought to be a no-brainer.

This news item shows what appears to be extra new bike spaces, but is this true and if so, what trains are getting what spaces? Asking because my disabled partner and I use a tandem and currently the only service we can use on ScotRail is to Oban and back, which limits where we can travel...

The British Library is due to get an extension with Crossrail 2 shaft and tunnels in the basement. In London there are also the Northern Line stations like Belsize Park which got WW2 built extra tunnels for an express tube which never happened. I'm also aware the Arndale shopping centre in...

ScotRail previously took some 321s, removed one car and made them into 320s. Given the mass extinction of 321s on Greater Anglia, would it not be logical to take more 321s to Scotland and eliminate the 318s, creating a more standard fleet? What counts against this?

One of the fun things to look out for amongst the ghost stations on the Piccadilly Line is Arsenal station where the tiling on the walls still says Gillespie Road, the name having changed 89 years ago in 1932. The name change made sense when Arsenal football ground was at the station but...