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In a pinch, could you couple two (say) Mark 1 coaches together by dropping both buckeyes and using the chain hooks and buffers? I imagine you wouldn't want to risk using the gangways between the two coaches in such a situation, and the small issue of neither coach actually having a chain (the...

According to the signs the footbridge at Bedhampton is out of action until at least January, and looking at what's been done to it so far I can see why. At this point I wonder why they don't just demolish it and put a new one in. Maybe it's a listed structure?

As title. Going to be visiting Manchester next month and a £10 Metrolink pass is somewhat more appealing than a £31 week ticket. As an aside, it's almost certain (after an attempt a couple of years back) that a normal Metrolink ticket won't load on anything other than their own smartcards...

Hi all, Going Havant to York in a few weeks' time and my tickets have the SWR service also listed on the reservation coupon ("No specific seat reserved"). Is it mandatory for me to travel on that connecting train? I would really rather travel up earlier and/or go via Thameslink to make the...

I noticed as the train was leaving Birmingham International there is a very prominent set of bridge abutments. Looking on Google Maps, there's nothing left that would indicate these were a former railway (immediately adjacent are industrial units on one side and an airport on the other; no...

I was on a train stopped at Northampton the other day and noticed on several of the overhead lines there were these small clear discs with a coloured reflective patch in the middle hanging from the upper of the two lines; some red and some either green or white. Any idea what they are for...

I spent the weekend in Manchester and got to ride the Metrolink for the first time in many years. What I found very strange was the huge number of speed restrictions. It seemed like anything other than dead straight heavy-rail track, there was a speed restriction down to 40, 30 or even 20mph...

Inspired by this which was also on the front page of the paper this morning, it would seem Hilsea is overdue an actual step-free footbridge. Currently to get from one platform to the other requires a detour of around 850 metres.

As the thread title. Are there any standard road level crossings across a 4-rail London Underground line?

SWR doing their very best to show why they score so poorly on customer satisfaction today. Of course. How dare I purchase my season ticket from a train company (GWR) that actually offers incentives. You can see that they're not even bothering to come up with a BS technical explanation. Nope...

I'm travelling from Havant to Chatham on the 28th and the route planners (including Southeastern's own) are suggesting either taking Southern to Victoria and SE back out (the normal route I would expect to take), or to take SWR to Waterloo then SE Highspeed from St Pancras International. Both...

In this video at around 3:00 you can see unit 1315 pulling into London Waterloo, and it's got extra lights fitted on the front. I don't recall ever seeing these trains like this.

I'm looking at NRE to check the times to go Havant-Liverpool and notice that pretty much every ticket is an Off-Peak ticket, despite some of them definitely arriving into London at peak times (when an Off-Peak ticket to London itself would not be valid). Do the restrictions simply not apply for...

Travelling down to East Grinstead yesterday, I noticed that Hurst Green station has a different style of sign to all the other Southern (and South Western) stations (standard font on plain green / blue background): the lettering on the signs is in bold type. Any other stations which do not...

Heading North on the DLR from Bow Church to Stratford, the line narrows to single-track, and on the left is a single track with overhead wires that joins the GA main line. Looking at the map it leaves the lines out of Fenchurch Street just after Limehouse and before the curve to Bromley-by-Bow...

Looks like they've done a fairly major update to the information screens at PMS. The voice across all platforms is now the same one used at (I think) Stratford International and also on the Tyne and Wear Metro ("The next train at... platform 1... is the... 16:50... South Western Railway...

Just saw a pair of 458s in the loop siding at Fratton. That's a bit out of their normal stomping grounds isn't it?

I hold a season ticket Havant to Portsmouth Stations, so it is obviously valid at the directly inbetween stations Bedhampton, Hilsea and Fratton. Is it also valid to Cosham? This is the first station on the line towards Southampton which branches off between Bedhampton and Hilsea and forms a...

Having read descriptions of how various SDO systems work they seem to be either over-engineered or vulnerable to problems (GPS systems allow the doors to be opened as long as the train is close enough to the platform location?). Proposal: have a sensor positioned under each door, and on the...

On a typical run, how many people are there on one of these trains (e.g. the pair of 37s and four yellow coaches that just chugged noisily through Portsmouth & Southsea on 186I)?