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Currently sat on southbound EC 1Y27 at Retford - guard has announced wires down at Tallington. EC website saying "A normal service is expected to resume by approximately 18:00." Edit: now "Disruption is expected until 23:59" :(

Another short report, which I thought might be of interest to anyone who is thinking of using the Caledonian Sleeper for the first time. My journey was on Sunday 6 October. I had to be in Windsor for 9am on the Monday morning, which meant that I either had to travel down and stay overnight on...

I only just noticed the Trip Reports thread, so I thought I'd add a short report about a recent Club 55 trip in Scotland. I only recently "qualified" for Club 55 :) , and I try to do a trip in each of the Spring and Autumn offers. So far, I've done an overnight trip to Mallaig, day trips to...

I'm thinking of offering my help as a volunteer worker on the Aln Valley railway project - would anyone like to share their experiences of working on that or any similar projects (i.e. relaying tracks, constructing/restoring buildings, working on rolling stock, etc, prior to the re-opening of a...

These are the different ways my print at home tickets have been inspected by EC over the last few months, in the order in which they have been inspected most times :) Not exactly consistent.. :| Scanned Not scanned, manually clipped Scanned and sight of credit card requested Checked...

I'm doing the Glasgow-Mallaig trip later this month (none of it on the Jacobite). My usual mode of rail transport is 225s/HSDTs on the ECML - can anyone advise me what it's like to spend over 5 hours on a 156? (And another 5 hours the following day :o )