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This photo was taken from a train at platform 5 at Birmingham New Street. It shows the middle road that avoids platforms 5 and 6. I was quite surprised to see what looks like an old rail type at such a busy station. Obviously this road is lightly used, presumably mainly for ad hoc ECS moves...

Network Rail has applied for planning permission to relocate the ticket office windows at Manchester Oxford Road to the front of the station. Seems like a very good idea as the entrance is often congested. In fact I've often wondered why the windows at the front of the station are boarded up...

Note: If information about this project has been posted elsewhere please bring it to my attention. This proposed project reported in The Times looks promising. Network Rail is proposing to adapt the line from Folkestone to Wembley in north London, via Ashford and Maidstone in Kent, at the cost...

Some very good news that the site of the 1830 Edge Hill station, the first locomotive terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, has gained Scheduled Monument recognition and protection. This is the culmination of many years' effort by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway Trust. On...

Today I visited the newly-opened Castlefield Viaduct attraction in Manchester. This is the 1892 Grade II listed steel viaduct that used to carry the railway into the Manchester Central station and the Great Northern Warehouse, but has been disused since 1969. It has been converted by the...

There are a couple of pictures of one of the carriages being lifted in the Salisbury Journal (pasted below):

I claimed compensation for a delayed return journey from Eccles - Wigan. I was travelling on the 19th December on an Off Peak Day Return fare, which is £6.50. Northern have calculated compensation of £1.63 based on a delay of 48 minutes (which was broadly the correct delay): Your planned...