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Agree with many of the ones above, plus a few more random ones since I started travelling regularly 30 odd years ago: - The Rugby WCML remodelling (if I had to pick a single project from the whole WCML upgrade) - The reopening north of Bham Snow Hill, particularly Smethwick Galton Bridge with...

Mobile site now seems to be working again via O2, so someone for the moment is still fixing faults on the old site. Thanks for the tip. Not come across traintimes.org.uk before. Looks great, could be a lifesaver. Dr Strider

I use the NRE site for its departure boards mainly. I couldn't connect at all to m.nationalrail.co.uk yesterday (the legacy mobile site) via both my O2 phones. Tried multiple browsers, purging cache/cookies etc. The problem was some sort of certificate error I think - "your connection is not...

Great Malvern to Hereford, also the tiny stretch from Worcester Shrub Hill to Foregate Street

How about: - Rugby to Wolverton - Rugeley TV to Stoke-on-Trent (or if you're counting mothballed stations: Rugeley TV to Barlaston) - Birmingham New Street to King's Norton (for the next couple of years anyway) - Peartree to Willington Dr Strider

Also Stafford. In the Dec 2019 timetable there is a SO 0712 ex Birmingham New St for Crewe, which omits Wolverhampton.

There weren't any manual announcements on the trip so I couldn't tell if it was the recording, the speakers, or the processing in the middle. I'd guess the processing (e.g. file format / conversion settings or something similar).

I managed to get on a refurbed one today - 2P62 arriving in New Street at 1622. Sorry I couldn't take any photos as the train was rammed. From memory: Plus points: * It does feel like an actual refurb, a good job nicely done. Nice smell of fabric as you walk on (even though the train was...

How about: SX 2142 Birmingham International to Manchester Piccadilly (TfW, via Shrewsbury, Chester and Warrington BQ) SO 1911 Hereford to Dorridge Dr Strider

Just spotted that from New Street you can also have Walsall, via the Sutton Park line, so that makes 11, I guess. More tenuously, if we're playing the "lines without platforms" game, could you also have the line from Coleshill Parkway, as it does not have a platform at Water Orton? Dr Strider

I reckon Birmingham New Street has another two "first stations": Perry Barr (via Soho South and Perry Barr South junctions) Bournville (via Camp Hill and Lifford Curve) The Perry Barr route has at least one passenger service per day (possibly only in one direction). New Street to New Street...

"West Midlands Trains" is the official name of the franchisee which operates both WMR and LNWR services, so no Dec 2018 changes on either. Dr Strider

Looking at the TA application there are some interesting things in the "West Midlands Inter-Urban" section of(Birmingham to Crewe, Shrewsbury etc.). Reading it, it appears that the new Birmingham-Stoke-Crewe service is an additional express every hour, and not the extension of the stopper that...

Isn't that one Rugeley and one Liverpool terminating each hour. Plus the presumably the ATW, hopefully just about enough room to fit them all in. Come to think of it, will there be much WMT terminating at Birmingham New Street (BHM) any more, once the Liverpools and the Chase services become...

Diversionary routes exist between any two large towns (e.g. Birmingham and Coventry). Engineering teams can fix a problem anywhere on the network within the hour (or half-hour). A member of my family once told me that he didn't bother getting on stoppers (on a two-track railway), because the...

My very earliest memories are from the earliest 1980s of travelling on Mk2 InterCity stock on the WCML and the MML. Lots of blue / aquamarine seats I seem to recall. When I started to travelling in 1988 - from Wolverhampton to New Street and environs - my main memories are of (very bouncy) 304s...