This month so far ...
Introductions and chat | "New Topic" x 8000 | 26 Oct 2024 |
- | Finn (our Coffee Shop forum mascot) has met a new friend? | 23 Oct 2024 |
- | I'm a Luddite - historic reference, Chris from Nailsea | 19 Oct 2024 |
- | ARE there enough train crew? | 6 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: It's NOT the age of the train | 25 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Changing profile of passengers | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Member Roll call | 26 Oct 2024 |
Who's who on Western railways | Gerard Duddridge RIP | 21 Oct 2024 |
- | Laura Shoaf as Chair of Shadow Great British Railways | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: New Year Honours, 2023 - public transport recipients | 8 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Peter Blackburn, RIP | 20 Oct 2024 |
Smoke and Mirrors | 23 ways to contact someone with your issue / query | 3 Oct 2024 |
Fare's Fair | Railway Regulation Act, 1844 (1st November) - Parliamentary fares (and trains) | 1 Nov 2024 |
- | Fare and railcard increases on 2nd March 2025 | 30 Oct 2024 |
- | Trainline - Strong Growth | 28 Oct 2024 |
- | Fares - Wiltshire to Scotland - economic suggestions | 23 Oct 2024 |
- | GWR selling tickets to Paddington when it's closed, 28th Decrmber 2024. | 21 Oct 2024 |
- | 10% off tickets via Uber | 16 Oct 2024 |
- | RoSCos - not being nationalised. The Mirror comments | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Rover ticket | 7 Oct 2024 |
- | You want to join at Melksham rather than Trowbridge? That will be an extra £30 | 6 Oct 2024 |
- | Why punch a hole in a rover / ranger ticket? | 6 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: GWR Smartcard - purchase non-season tickets? | 1 Nov 2024 |
- | Re: Rail firms accused of misusing courts for ticket errors / fare evasion (merged posts) | 9 Oct 2024 |
Buses and other ways to travel | a bus scam from Suffolk,think we had a similar one in the West country area | 31 Oct 2024 |
- | Weca FREE Birthday bus's to be extended in year 2025 | 29 Oct 2024 |
- | Buses that go past the [station / point of interest] but [don't / won't] stop | 28 Oct 2024 |
- | Last cross-channel passenger ferry from Southampton - 27.10.1996 | 27 Oct 2024 |
- | Bus deregulation - on this day 26th October 1986 | 26 Oct 2024 |
- | Boy sustains 'life-threatening' injury in bus crash in Cornwall - 14 Oct 2024 | 14 Oct 2024 |
- | Rachel Reeves to scrap bus fare cap | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Pupils injured after school bus crash in County Down - 7 October 2024 | 8 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: London City Airport expansion approved | 11 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Ministers urged to extend £2 bus fare cap after refusing to commit to move | 28 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Megabus launch new Plymouth - London route | 27 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Paddle Steamer Waverley - merged posts | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Labour pledges free bus travel for under 25s | 30 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: 20th Century Road Schemes in Bristol | 16 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Cambridge Guided Busway - ongoing discussion and updates (merged topic) | 28 Oct 2024 |
Your rights and redress | Re: New FGW Customer Charter | 14 Oct 2024 |
London to Reading | Issue with GWR Electric Suburban Trains? | 4 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Ealing Broadway - station facilities, access issues and many sad incidents (merged posts) | 26 Oct 2024 |
London to Didcot, Oxford and Banbury | Re: Oxford Station - improvements, incidents and events (merged topic) | 15 Oct 2024 |
London to Swindon and Bristol | Platform 14 stories | 23 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Class 387 coming to Thames Valley - ongoing discussion | 22 Oct 2024 |
London to South Wales | Re: Bristol Parkway. 50 years young. | 9 Oct 2024 |
London to the West | Major work to replace banks at Powderham to protect rail line | 4 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Night Riviera - merged posts, ongoing discussion | 6 Oct 2024 |
Thames Valley Branches | Re: Reading Green Park | 13 Oct 2024 |
London to the Cotswolds | New map promotes car-free travel in the Cotswolds | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: North Cotswold Line delays and cancellations - 2024 | 3 Oct 2024 |
TransWilts line | IET’s SDO database now includes Melksham. | 27 Oct 2024 |
- | Council welcomes Wiltshire Rail Strategic Study | 23 Oct 2024 |
- | Observing traffic changes - before Covid and now - at Melksham | 5 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Melksham Update - and (provisional) date for restart meeting - 25.10.2024 | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury | 2 Oct 2024 |
Portsmouth to Cardiff | Unisex (?) toilets at Southampton Central. | 30 Oct 2024 |
- | Schrödinger's train | 16 Oct 2024 |
- | Extra stops at Dilton Marsh - sensible alternative when local service cancelled | 9 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: "The future of public transport provision in West Wiltshire" | 22 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Westbury - engineering works from 24th December 2024 for 30 days | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Planned trespass? | 4 Oct 2024 |
Bristol (WECA) Commuters | Rail and road disruption warning due to works | 25 Oct 2024 |
- | Points failure between Worcester Shrub Hill and Ashchurch 23/10/24 | 23 Oct 2024 |
- | Problems with vertical services as well as horizontal ones now | 16 Oct 2024 |
- | Zonal fares for West of England? | 8 Oct 2024 |
- | [otd] 3rd October 1906 - Ashton Avenue Bridge opened | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | Scope to increase Bristol suburban services? | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: New station at Ashley Down, Bristol | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Bristol Temple Meads - station, facilities, incidents and events (merged posts) | 31 Oct 2024 |
Oxford, Didcot and Reading from the West | Re: New Oxford - Bristol Service Starting Sept 14th 2024 | 15 Oct 2024 |
Shorter journeys in South and West Wales | MOVED: Collision reported between two trains | 22 Oct 2024 |
- | Could Wales and maybe Scotland buy its own trains? | 19 Oct 2024 |
- | Transport for Wales passenger numbers soar as cancellations decline. | 17 Oct 2024 |
- | Welsh alcohol ban | 17 Oct 2024 |
- | Go ahead given to new railway stations and SWML upgrade Cardiff to Severn tunnel | 11 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Underinvestment in rail in Wales? | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Cardiff Bay Station branch | 2 Oct 2024 |
Shorter journeys in Devon - Central, North and South | Re: Devon delays 2024 | 21 Oct 2024 |
Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall | Mining in Cornwall | 31 Oct 2024 |
- | Is this Scilly? | 1 Nov 2024 |
- | Passengers causing disturbance closes E Bound GWML in Cornwall 01 Oct 2024 | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Cornish delays | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | St Ives reservations | 15 Oct 2024 |
- | St Erth - Footbridge. | 27 Oct 2024 |
Across the West | JourneyCheck - thank you for the explanation. | 29 Oct 2024 |
- | Exeter points failure 17th October 2024 | 17 Oct 2024 |
- | 0635 Salisbury - Worcester Foregate Str thru Melksham keeps running late | 17 Oct 2024 |
- | Rail delivery group survey on time spent at stations | 9 Oct 2024 |
- | Comparing old and new trains | 6 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Bad weather warning, from the BBC, for this weekend | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Peter, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Rail unions industrial and strike action 2024 | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2024 | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: 175s to GWR | 25 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Aberthaw Power Station and Decarbonisation | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Train Horns causing disturbance | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing discussion | 3 Oct 2024 |
Campaigns for new and improved services | St Athan | 15 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Reston Station | 26 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Petitioners support reopening of Wisbech line | 27 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: ATOC - makes case for new railway lines | 31 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: East - West Rail update (Oxford to Bedford) - ongoing discussion | 21 Oct 2024 |
News, Help and Assistance | Re: Your FUTURE viewing - how would you like to access the Coffee Shop in future? | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Server load - 5th May 2024 | 17 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Really useful industry posts on the Coffee Shop - a thank you to our experts | 23 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Revisiting email rules and posting guidelines, a decade and more on | 5 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Some Site Statistics | 16 Oct 2024 |
The Lighter Side | Where was JayMac today, 30th October 2024? | 30 Oct 2024 |
- | Christmas tree decoration | 30 Oct 2024 |
- | Clocks Back Quiz | 28 Oct 2024 |
- | Where was I ... ? | 24 Oct 2024 |
- | Young spotters finally identified after 48 years! | 19 Oct 2024 |
- | Paul Simon and the song Homeward bound | 19 Oct 2024 |
- | Spot the difference | 18 Oct 2024 |
- | Coming to the end of my FOSS - where was I? | 10 Oct 2024 |
- | Circle line, 7th October 2024 | 7 Oct 2024 |
- | Music to the ears - from another of my random finds on YouTube | 6 Oct 2024 |
- | vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner | 4 Oct 2024 |
- | Another of my random finds from YouTube: Doctor Who 500 miles special | 4 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: The chap at Boots dropped my prints - can you put them in order? | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Where was Red Squirrel, 2/9/24 to 16/9/24 | 25 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Interrail '24 - recalling memories and dreaming | 22 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: New monorail in Shoreditch | 20 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Congestion at Newquay | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: World cup of train stations? | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Annoying / amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos to illustrate press articles | 8 Oct 2024 |
The West - but NOT trains in the West | Re: Neighbourhood plans - status in YOUR area | 8 Oct 2024 |
Diary - what's happening when? | Trevor Beaven Station Master Pewsey QUESTION | 27 Oct 2024 |
- | 21st November 2024 - publication date for rail usage stats | 26 Oct 2024 |
- | Upcoming in the diary - but no exact date yet for some of them... | 20 Oct 2024 |
- | First passenger train this century, Bletchley to Bicester | 8 Oct 2024 |
- | West Wiltshire Rail User Group, 27th November 2024, Trowbridge | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | Melksham Transport Group - rebirth, 25th October 2024, 14:30 and 18:30 | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: 11th October 2024 - Travelwatch Southwest general meeting, Taunton | 5 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Coffee shop diary - YOUR events welcome. | 30 Oct 2024 |
Swindon to Gloucester / Cheltenham | MOVED: BBC points west covering Ladbrooke Grove | 6 Oct 2024 |
- | Swindon - Transport Conversation Survey | 1 Oct 2024 |
Looking forward - the next 5, 10 and 20 years | How do we look ahead - Transport Analysis Guidance | 29 Oct 2024 |
- | Newer trains and fewer cancellations | 17 Oct 2024 |
- | Public Transport - what should we do / what should we ask of our MP? | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Rebalancing transport investment investment | 10 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Get Britain Moving - Labour's plans to fix Britain's Railways | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Project Churchward - Future regional fleet for the west | 15 Oct 2024 |
South Western services | what would you do if your last train was cancelled? | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: South Western Railways and NR propose new plan to electrify line. | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Network Rail plan to close Tan Hill crossing and replace it with a footbridge | 30 Oct 2024 |
Cross Country services | Labour agrees pay deal that gives train guards £300 bonus | 16 Oct 2024 |
- | trying to keep travellers OFF the bus/coach | 12 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: XC short notice alterations due to driver unavailability. | 16 Oct 2024 |
Transport for London | Elizabeth line Paddington station barriers | 25 Oct 2024 |
- | London Underground strikes in November (2024) | 18 Oct 2024 |
- | brand new Underground trains sprayed before entering service | 16 Oct 2024 |
- | Why The Elizabeth Line Must Be Extended To Ebbsfleet International | 14 Oct 2024 |
- | Man jailed for pushing postman on to Tube tracks | 11 Oct 2024 |
- | New entrance, Bakerloo Line, Paddington. Opened October 2024 | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: TfL cyber security incident, September 2024. | 7 Oct 2024 |
Heritage railway lines, Railtours, other rail based attractions | Tintern Station | 1 Nov 2024 |
- | MOVED: Volunteers wanted at Congresbury | 28 Oct 2024 |
- | Bath Spa to Broadway and back | 28 Oct 2024 |
- | National Railway Museum at Shildon | 22 Oct 2024 |
- | Londons burning series featuring heritage railway | 21 Oct 2024 |
- | new footbridge at Shepton Mallett | 16 Oct 2024 |
- | Atlantic Coast Express - 12th October 2024 | 12 Oct 2024 |
- | Having trouble with getting your heritage railway across a road in UK? | 8 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: steam engine 5552 | 10 Oct 2024 |
- | Heritage railways / sourcing coal | 27 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Weardale Railway - Bishop Auckland to Weardale - merged posts | 25 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Plym Valley Railway - Marsh Mills to Plym Bridge - merged posts | 25 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Colonel Holman Fred Stephens (31 October 1868 – 23 October 1931) | 18 Oct 2024 |
Meet the Manager | Meet the Director, 3 October - an update | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | 6. Catering | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | 5. Ticketing and connections | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | 4. Shortage of stock / crew, reliance on overtime / rest day working | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | 3. Persons hit by trains, and their effect on services | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | 2. Reliability issues - rolling stock | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | 1. Infrastructure issues - particularly in the Thames Valley | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | TODAY! Meet the Manager - on the forum and on Zoom | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Meet the Manager and Zoom code for 14:30 on Thursday 3rd October | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Meet the Director - Daryn McCombe of GWR - 3 October 2024 | 1 Oct 2024 |
Media about railways, and other means of transport | Article in The guardian extolling Delay repay | 24 Oct 2024 |
- | the likely lads series at Doncaster train station? | 19 Oct 2024 |
- | Sabrina Bahsoon warned against filming "commercial" videos on TfL property | 18 Oct 2024 |
Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them | More cycle parking in Oxford:"astonishing victim blaming" by cycling campaigners | 15 Oct 2024 |
- | Keeping fit with train travel | 6 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Taking cycle on the train - boarding at intermediate stations | 2 Oct 2024 |
The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom | Train crash in Cornwall - but with a difference | 31 Oct 2024 |
- | Northern still using FAX machines | 31 Oct 2024 |
- | Budget 2024 | 30 Oct 2024 |
- | Global Warming - how are we doing on call for urgent action 18 years ago? | 30 Oct 2024 |
- | 'I married the train driver who saved my life' | 27 Oct 2024 |
- | Rail operators stripped of profit incentive ahead of renationalisation | 23 Oct 2024 |
- | Collision between two trains at Llanbrynmair, in Powys, Wales - 21 October 2024 | 22 Oct 2024 |
- | The railway as a community | 21 Oct 2024 |
- | Haigh for the chop? | 20 Oct 2024 |
- | Cancelling trains: choices to be made | 20 Oct 2024 |
- | Bus and tram in head-on collision in city centre - Manchester, 18 October 2024 | 19 Oct 2024 |
- | Travel times to railway stations | 17 Oct 2024 |
- | Avanti Class 805 interiors | 16 Oct 2024 |
- | Rail Symbol 2 and Rail Alphabet 2 is coming | 14 Oct 2024 |
- | Another one way station ... | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Request stops | 10 Oct 2024 |
- | First drive - Lands End to John o'Groats [OTD] 9th October 1897 | 9 Oct 2024 |
- | Times, they are a'changing | 6 Oct 2024 |
- | 36 rail projects at risk of being scrapped by the Government | 5 Oct 2024 |
- | Euston: a five point plan | 4 Oct 2024 |
- | [otd] 2nd October 2002 - Railtrack being sold to newly created Network Rail | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: First acquires Stirling-London Grand Union open access operation | 3 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Crackdown on traditional carriages threatens ‘Hogwarts Express’ trains | 31 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Belfast's Grand Central station, opening on Sunday 8th September 2024 | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Storing petrol | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Diary Of A Reasonably Frequent Rail User | 21 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Railway bridges struck by road vehicles - merged topic, ongoing discussion | 18 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: HS2 - Government proposals, alternative routes and general discussion | 8 Oct 2024 |
The Wider Picture Overseas | "13 dead" in rail station roof collapse, Serbia. | 1 Nov 2024 |
- | Various high speed rail closures in Spain. | 31 Oct 2024 |
- | New hourly Dublin-Belfast rail services | 29 Oct 2024 |
- | Quietest national network station in 2023 - USA style | 26 Oct 2024 |
- | Greenland - opening to mass transit (by air) | 21 Oct 2024 |
- | DRAISY - a new tiny battery train from SNCF | 5 Oct 2024 |
- | Hamburg station virus scare on high-speed train | 2 Oct 2024 |
- | Keeping fit on public transport | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Free public transport comes to Montpellier (count the 'l's...) | 25 Oct 2024 |
Railway History and related topics | Longmoor Military Railway - to 31st October 1969 | 31 Oct 2024 |
- | Like a drug? | 29 Oct 2024 |
- | Volunteers wanted at Congresbury | 28 Oct 2024 |
- | model of Axminster train station | 25 Oct 2024 |
- | Plymouth to Salisbury Plain by London bus 1914 | 23 Oct 2024 |
- | The Eritrean Railway - a report on this day (18th October) in 2003 | 18 Oct 2024 |
- | Tonight: Paulton, Somerset: talk on the Severn Rail Bridge | 17 Oct 2024 |
- | Lampo, and dogs in railway history | 17 Oct 2024 |
- | A history of time - OTD 13th October 1884 | 13 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Garden Railway - clearing the leaves | 20 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: [otd] 31st October 1980 - last run of night ferry | 1 Nov 2024 |
- | Re: Bradshaw's timetable - first published 19th October 1839 | 19 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: [otd] 1st October 1971 - last run of the 4DD | 1 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Atmospheric Railways | 27 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: British Train Robbery - 8 August 1963 (merged posts) | 12 Oct 2024 |
- | Re: Ladbroke Grove (Paddington) train crash - 5 Oct 1999 - anniversaries, memories and publications | 4 Oct 2024 |
Green Park | Test meeting | 3 Oct 2024 |