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The Department for Transport has launched a consultation of their proposals to eliminate the 50km limit for young PSV drivers under the age of 21, which they say aims to alleviate the bus and coach driver shortage. The DFT will also bring proposals for PSV and HGV drivers to start theory and...

Yesterday on Twitter 57310 has been repainted into GBRF following the company’s acquisition of the loco from DRS. https://twitter.com/clinnick1/status/1777586848010846624

Slightly OT, but Hertfordshire County Council are consulting on new proposals for bus priority measures; including new bus lanes, improved waiting facilities and new services; in the Hitchin, St Albans and Stevenage areas, where Arriva have a presence...

On RTT there appears to be an ECS move from Wembley LMD to Bristol Barton Mill and back, under the headcodes 5C65 and 3M65. Does anyone know the purposes of these moves, perhaps as driver training? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K20159/2024-01-08/detailed...

Having been doing a spot of bashing in recent times thanks to making the best use out of the various day tickets (Rovers) I had a thought about creating new rovers to make a bashing day out more attractive, or sometimes planning to spot a particular service more easily, such as a Railtour. One...

A short time ago I noticed that the Classic Buses website, which hosted the excellent diary of upcoming bus events, had disappeared along with the diary. I assumed that it was down for maintenance but it has not been back up so far. Is anyone else getting this problem? If the site is truly gone...

With the opening of Reading Green Park, the total number of National Rail stations with "Reading" in its name has risen to 3. If stations encapsulating the Reading area should be included (Tilehurst, Earley, Winnersh Triangle, Winnersh) this takes the total number to 7. Surely by now, given the...

London Crosslink was a short-lived rail service between Basingstoke and Stratford (extending to GEML destinations such as Witham, Colchester and Ipswich) between 2000 and 2002 operated by Anglia Railways using Class 170 DMUs. It wasn't much of a success due to the limited advertising of the...

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-areas-that-a-class-158-have-never-been-on.247314 I took inspiration from this thread on the main railways discussion regarding where the Class 158 DMU's have never travelled to, and there have been some spots mentioned. I thought about this from a...

From 29 August 2023, the ULEZ will be expanded to cover whole of Greater London. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63754724

Some time ago I travelled on Cresta Coaches’ (of Alton) route C41 between Basingstoke and New Alresford, a chance to tick another route off my list. I had seen Cresta’s buses a few times before, and noted that they had the modern Ticketer machines. So imagine my surprise when attempting to...

Hello all, Turning on the 'Public transport' layer on Google Maps, it occured to me that some of GWR's routes have recently been included alongside most of TfL's lines. The routes cover from London Paddington as far as Bristol via Westbury, Swindon and Bath. It is coloured more of a black than...

TfL have published their report on the consultations for the BLE today. Bakerloo line extension - Transport for London - Citizen Space (tfl.gov.uk) Bakerloo line extension consultation report (tfl.gov.uk)

At present moment, Transport for London is struggling to keep up with finances, which they will likely announce service reductions post-covid to avoid further losses. But in an unlikely situation for TfL to transfers its management of London Overground routes to the DfT, different operators...

Yesterday, Dovetail Games announced the upcoming sequel, which will launch on August 6. From their website: https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/train-sim-world/about-trainsimworld Any thoughts, anyone?

In 1966, British Railways closed the famous Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR), spanning from Bath and Burnham-on-Sea to Bournemouth, a victim under the infamous Beeching Axe. But in an alternative timeline, if the S&DJR was kept open, what would the line be right now?

Upon studying the UK's rail network from the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas, I noticed there were a number of lines in use as for freight in the North and Midlands. I then thought if I set up an open-access operator to run services on these routes. After reviewing several of the routes, I came up...

Within the main railway network, there is a standard classification of rail services comprising of a headcode, which comprises of three numbers and an alphabet (e.g. 1Z99). In the London Underground, there are different system of classifying tube services, made up of three numbers (e.g 366). I...

An article popped up on my feed, which was a list of places in and around London the journalist thinks might be useful. And here are the places they wanted LU to expand their lines to: https://www.mylondon.news/news/news-opinion/27-places-dont-london-underground-16784843 I had mixed opinions...

Read the full article: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/07/29/london-underground-gets-approval-for-colindale-station-rebuild/ Some pictures from the article as well: