Thanks for those ... I have corrected them (and some others I have found).    I have taken all the answers, sorted them, and  them reduced them to uniq answers to help me shop the same thing spelt in two ways.  Found beauties such as Abwrdeen ... please post any more that crop up - I think I have sorted out most now!

As something of a TransWilts Community Rail Officer swan song, I'm posting a link on the TransWilts Facebook page to a quiz "places you can go from the TransWilts" - all my own pictures taken on my travels that started by train from Melksham Station within the last six months

For Coffee Shop members - please try it out and let me know of any errors before I launch it on what I suspect will be a far less forgiving wider audience than I have hear.   This thread totally open for discussions / comments suggestions - no need to worry about spoilers.   Enjoy!

Better give you the URL: http://www.passenger.chat/destinations/

At least it's running 

There currently seem to be an astonishing number of TfL trains parked up in a line to the north of Old Oak Common - I would guess somewhere around fifteen of them, representing perhaps an hour's worth of arrivals (or departures) from / to central London at Paddington.  Presumably most of those will be in daily use so if something goes very wrong headed west from there, you'll having empty sidings into which the trains can be driven.  And (depending on what has gone wrong) some at least can turn round and head back east.    Far bigger problem will be all the people turfed off those incoming trains from central London and how to handle them in the area ...

Grrrrr ... only two hours to the next train.   The one was new the year and has been bullding well - let's hope that road replacement from Warminster and Dilton Marsh are provided and connect with the ongoing train, and the Weymouth train too, at Westbury.

Not sure I would consider Metro's headline in good taste


Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/20/indian-town-picks-up-pieces-after-speeding-train-kills-60-people-watching-fireworks-8058575/

especially when the "more" includes


I suspect that we are only being shown very limited pictures because of the brutal nature of the horror that's likely to have been at the scene.

Don't play with trains ...

Hmmm ... as Great Britain is in Europe (at least at present!) that's a very very wide range of choices indeed 

It would seem that Lee's image hosting service has decided the picture is too good / asked for too many times and has stopped serving it.  A cache tells me it look like this:

Silly question - is today an SWR strike day?   If so, there might be a silver lining in that Chandler's Ford does get a train service?    Bit of an open secret that the loss of the Romsey Rocket service to industrial action is having a negative and frustrating effect on the CRP there.

The potential re-opening of the line on Anglesey is covered at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=5625.0 and I have added a quote / link on that thread to update it in consideration of the bridge strike and way that has effected the situation.

From The Daily Post

Welcome to the forum, Reading General

I'll leave others with far more knowledge than I to give you a full answer, but I do look at new through journey opportunities such as:
* Twyford to Tottneham Court Road
* Langley to Liverpool Street
* West Drayon to Whitechapel
and recall that something close to half the available traffic on a flow can be lost if people have to change trains.  Reading itself will be an interesting case as people wll have a choice of speed v change in may cases - get the Elizabeth line from Canary Wharf, them decide whether to stay on the Elizabeth Line train at Paddington and watch expresses that call at Reading whistle by as that travel on, or take time (and perhaps incur delay) in a change and not end up being much faster door to door anyway.

Clearing out (with a carrot not a stick too!) a lot of the one stop hops on long distance expresses from London to Reading also brings other benefits of evening load on some of the long distance stuff ... famous trains like the 19:03 West Country express and the 19:30 via Bristol.

More old friends

Too true - but will it be considered to be safe enough?  There is already a serious and unsolved problem running 3rd rail electrics in preservation, and even our own IETs that have come onto GWR are suffiicient of a safety concern (risk or people using inter-carriage cable harnesses as ladders) to be on hold for the East Coast.  We may end up seeing extra protection quite soon like that already seen in the USA -
 http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=19567.msg234879#msg234879 - and not able to run trains in the current more carefree way!