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Throwing it out there, if they chose the Zefiro could they order a mix of continental loading gauge trains and a few British loading gauge trains to have another go at north of London services? The problems with the connection to HS2 have been well documented but they could run a pair of 200m...

I doubt that Eurostar would order double deckers for two reasons. One they can't operate into the Netherlands due to their low door height and high platforms. Secondly, a significant portion of their demand are leisure travellers who have a lot of luggage - The time that I traveled on a PBA to...

Personally I think that the best way to start would be to extend the Elizabeth line from Old Oak Common to High Wycombe and justify doing the rest of the Chiltern Mainline in the way that bringing the Elizabeth line to Reading helped to justify electrification of the Great Western Mainline...

730020 and 730008 are working the delayed 19:31 Redditch to Four Oaks. I have to say that these trains really seem to struggle on a wet rail, which combined with the slow door cycles makes timekeeping very poor.

I think that could best be described as 're-controlling', as opposed to the style of resignalling as seen between Ravensthorpe and Leeds where the positions of the signals was changed and four-aspect signals being used instead of three-aspect.

Is this due to their being an unusually large gap between the train and the platform?

Whilst viewing the Aurora in Sutton (Coldfield) Park I had to fortune of seeing a meteor burn up in the sky, with a red/yellow trail. The only other time I saw a meteor burn up was in Helsinki, when it left a blueish green trail. Not a bad evening for natural phenomena spotting! Later I took...

Probably just say reservations for coach ‘Y’ are in coach ‘X’ for instance. In the days when LDHS trains on the ECML were worked by HSTs and IC225s that would be the case as the seat layout was almost identical but with different coach letters when a swap would happen. I’d imagine that the...

When the one diagram has been running it has run Monday-Saturday, so the likelihood of seeing one is pretty good.

This is what the 06:48 and 12:48 from Holyhead to London Euston brings up on Monday 3rd June. Advance purchase tickets are not being sold on the 08:53 and 14:48 departures.

5 car 221 = 118.7m & 232 seats (206 of which are standard class, 26 first) 7 car 807 = 182m & 453 seats (404 of which are standard class, 49 first) 9 car 390 = 217.5m & 469 seats (370 of which are standard, 99 first) So the Class 807s have more standard class seats than a 9 carriage Class 390...

I've been booking trains for after the timetable change and I'm unable to buy an AP ticket for the 10:21 from Birmingham New Street to London Euston which is currently a Voyager diagram but likely to be one of the first to switch over to being an 805/807. Either they don't want to sell AP...

It seems to be a particularly common occurrence for itineraries involving a rail replacement bus for part of the journey, not entirely sure why.

St Patrick's day caused immense overcrowding on the Cross City line as well. The Cross City north is only 2tph on Sundays and on that day there were successive three car trains caused by short-forming some diagrams booked to be six carriages long. What doesn't help is that stock utilisation is...

Those two units are being used on London Euston to Tring/Bletchley/Milton Keynes services today.

I would imagine that it was in discussion in the early 1990s when there was an idea to have more services provided by through-running of services from Skipton and Ilkley to places like Cross Gates and Wetherby given that the WYPTE could invest in reopening a line that was wholly in West...

Is there any news of when the new EPS/MU/PS speed profile from Weaver Jn to Euston will be put into use to replace the Pendolino EPS/Voyager EPS/PS profile? I was under the impression that this was to be put into use at the start of April, but on a recent journey between Stafford and Crewe I saw...

Gauging is also a constraint, I believe that Class 158s can’t use the Cumbrian Coast line between Barrow and Carlisle as well as Hazel Grove to Buxton as there’re several points where they’d foul something.

I'd imagine that by the point that Leeds to Micklefield is electrified, the current Northern fleet out to tender may begin to be delivered (2029 is the date mentioned), which would probably be bi-mode and have EMU-style performance when running on electric.

I suppose the Calder Valley line acts as the slow lines between Heaton Lodge Jn and Manchester, being much more suited to freight given that they would not have to compete with any long distance express trains and the much more shallow gradients en route. Had both routes both been electrified I...