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With the soon to be end of operation for the 379s on greater anglia. One thing I have been wondering as has a lot of people following the recent announcement of the end of the 365s time with Great Northern. Are the 379s compatible with any other electrostars as I have heard conflicting views...

Its been suggested on another thread that WMR plans to retain the remaining 9 323s once the other 17 have moved to northern in order to run services at the 2 new stations at Willenhall and Darlaston after re-opening in 2022. The article below gives context about the 2 stations re-opening...

Note, Split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/forums/covid-19-coronavirus-discussion.174/ I know we wont know the full impact until after the next lockdown review. However, I thought as the new timetable is due to start the week after the review, it would be useful to get a discussion going...

Couldn’t find any thread already discussing this topic. So I thought it would be good to separate it from other issues affecting trains. I have noticed since the reduced timetables started on Monday, some TOCs have been struggling more than others with the reduced timetables mainly due to crew...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-51795414 How likely is it for northern to resume services at Redcar British Steel following this change?

Received an email from London Northwestern Railway today about compensation for season ticket holders. It also mentioned that currently they are having a sale on tickets to london and birmingham how many people are aware of this? Is this really a good way in bringing back passengers? What...

Ive found today that the franchises contracts for EMR and LNER specify that future operators will use the same branding Is is good the DfT demand franchises have transferrable brands or will that give too much control to the DfT in what is meant to be a privatised railway? I think its pretty...

Looks like Abellio’s West Midlands Trains are a step closer to having the plug pulled today thought this could re-ignite the discussion after the previous thread that related to this was closed...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/cross-country-consultation-2018-what-happened-to-the-results.197736 Which hopefully will be easier said then done when avanti let go of the voyagers and even EMR 222s would be beneficial??

Severe disruption due to flooding today. Anyone been affected by it? Has their been worser periods of flooding on the uk rail network in recent years? How does flooding compare to other major issues for TOCs and network rail? According to latest from network rail...

Another addition to the changes brought into the west midlands. Hopefully one which will be very effective i think. https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/news/89429/rail-collaboration-improve-service-passengers/ Thought this would be a good discussion area after the recent problems on rail...

Apologies if their is a thread on this already but nothing came up in various searches I did. Yesterday it was announced that: their are a couple of other articles that go into better detail. This was the most clearest one i could find? I can link and post them if requested.

Not sure if their is thread about this already but As part of Rail Week 2019. Siemens is doing its yearly facility open day this year at the SWR depot in Southampton First time its been opened to the public in 6 years! What do you think? Are open days like these beneficial? Anyone going? As...