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Rail services from Brighton have been cut as is the case across much of the country, to reflect with on and off travel restrictions and drop in demand for rail travel as home working increases. Services on the West Coastway have seen the Brighton to West Worthing all stations 313 shuttle...

Apparently Banksy has put his artwork / graffiti / whatever you call it on the London Underground today, unit 21403/21404 S7 stock. Remains to be seen what LUL wants to do about it.

The latest happening on the Brighton & Hove bus scene is that 30 Alexander Dennis Enviro 400ER buses have entered service on routes 5, 5A and 5B which will switch, by geographical enforcement, to zero emissions in the ULEZ between Old Steine and Palmeria Square. These are looking very dapper...

The Northern line has been dead for the last 3 days with a repeated signalling issue at Kennington affecting via Bank services. This morning also saw a broken down train on the Charing Cross branch which saw the entire line suspended. Official TfL advice is to avoid using the line and use...

As it says on the tin, how many crack expresses are there on the UK Rail network? A crack express if I am correct, is an informal term used to describe a train, usually a long distance or mainline service that even despite stopping at very few stations already on a regular service, drops even...

Travelling on the c2c network this weekend it seems to be more complex than it needs to be. No service London Fenchurch Street to Barking, and Barking to Grays via Dagenham Dock. All trains diverted to Stratford and London Liverpool Street. How comes a journey from the Tilbury loop is so...

Braintree Freeport opened 20 years ago to serve the new Freeport outlet shopping centre. Freeport shopping centre has now, as part of celebrating 20 years, renamed itself to Braintree Village. I can only imagine not now, but not too far in the distant future that the associated railway station...

Plenty going on particularly on weekends on this patch of the network. c2c have announced that weekend services are to be made quicker and improve as well. A new hourly service will operate between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness calling at West Ham, Benfleet and all stations...

Bad morning on the GWML into London this morning with TfL Rail Twitter desk reporting that services are suspended due to a derailment at West Ealing. They claim it is not one of their trains (presumably freight or GWR) and all lines are blocked. Services were just resuming after a fire near the...

On the c2c twitter feed it says the 20:40 Grays to London Fenchurch Street is formed of 2 coaches instead of 4 due to vandalism. Obviously they run a fully EMU fleet, so how does this work? I can't imagine they ran a 357 with two coaches taken out (where would the panto be?!) - did they mean...

Hello, I thought I would open up this thread to fill in what seems to be a gap in the market. To my understanding there's a lot of teenagers and twenty somethings on this forum, and may be interested in pursuing a career in the railway industry but not sure how to get in. I've decided to help...

Not that it is new news, as most of us are aware how much First is struggling to stay alive. A Telegraph article has suggested that First is in talks with rival companies such as Trenitalia, who run the c2c franchise, and National Express to take over a few Rail and Bus divisions. What does the...

Hey guys, The GWR Wiki page says that there are still Pacers in operation, about 8 of them - is this still the case as apparently there are cascades within the company with Sprinters? What line(s) would I have a chance finding them on if I went on a weekday during the start of August or on a...

TfL Rail West is taking a real hit today with, to my understanding, only 1 out of 5 360s in service - they are 4 trains down. Since MTR took over, the shortage has progressively gotten worse with MTR usually down to only 3 trains a day, resulting in the suspension of the Heathrow ITT (The free...

Hey guys, I don't think this has been a thread as of yet (if there is, I apologise sincerely about this and you can feel free to lock this admins!) but we've seen a few mutterings here and there about the safeguarded route for the Elizabeth line extension beyond Abbey Wood into Ebbsfleet...

Sorry for another ThamesLink related thread - this TOC really is clogging up the forum as of late! A repeating theme is that a lot of people are not happy with the routes chosen for ThamesLink services since the new timetable change. What would you choose as the routes, given 24tph as the limit...

Hey guys, Hope everyone is making good use of today's weather. As we're entering the summer, it's time for me to start planning my annual rail trips to the country. I've never done a Pacer before and I would really like to do one in the limited days they have left. I know Northern have some but...

Hey, sorry if this has been posted elsewhere - I cannot see or find anything. Greater Anglia Twitter desk this evening is reporting that a 317 unit had a fire (I imagine small) at Tottenham Hale. Anyone know the cause of the fire, and the extent of it and the unit involved?

Today for most of the day, the Jubilee line has been subject to a full suspension as a result of a 'power failure' affecting the signal control room. I believe I know the answer but would there be any back up signalling centres in the event of this happening, albeit the service running at a...

The Victoria line has had an oddly poor 72 or so hours this week due to 'signalling system faults' repeated with the entire line suspended at one point last night. What is going on?