For those with a yen for such things, I built this a good few years ago: http://www.charlbury.info/departures/

It requires Flash so won't work on phones, and indeed most desktop browsers will be sniffy these days. Like the Philly one, it's due to be decommissioned in the next day or so. (I'm moving the Charlbury website to a new server.)

But there do appear to be a few open-source Javascript implementations - grahame, are you tempted to rig one up to your lovely new departure boards here? 

Amazed that Hull Trains are in joint third given the frequency with which their service has imploded in 180-related incidents.

I'm not entirely sure of the point of Which doing this, though. When they rate different vacuum cleaners then you can make a decision which one to buy. But I'm not convinced that I can choose to use Island Line to get from Charlbury to Oxford.

Yes, exactly that - my sister was on it. Unspecified train fault of some sort...

Go-Ahead rather than First: they owned both Thames Trains and the X90 coach route (aka "Oxford Espress" [sic]). It persisted for a while when First got the franchise as FGW Link.

The (down) Oxfordshire Halts train being upgraded from its traditional 2 carriages to 9 is taking some getting used to! I wonder if 9 carriages is the longest that’s ever called at Combe and Finstock...

And it would be full-width in the middle, but half-width at either end...

I found the progress update a bit hard to parse, but on the basis that Dayhouse Quarry, the A48 bridge, and the National Diving & Activity Centre are pretty much the same place, I think they're saying that Sustrans/A-BCC will be removing the track north of the A48 bridge (through the tunnel) imminently. The FoDR will then be taking up the track south of the bridge in their own time - as you say, over the next few years.

Very slightly over the border, plans seem to be moving ahead to reuse the Wye Valley trackbed from Tidenham (near Chepstow) to Tintern as a cycle and walking route. This does include a short tunnel, although there's a landslip just north of it which currently blocks access. The track of the old Tidenham branch is apparently to be taken up and some of it will find a new home at the Forest of Dean Railway.

That was Prism Rail - a bunch of bus managers. They made a very nice return by selling out to National Express after a few years: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/19/5

MTL (Merseyrail/RRNE) was the other company that sprang to mind on CyclingSid's comment!

You could make a case that the RMT's job is to fight for its members; FirstGroup's job is to produce healthy returns for its shareholders; and the Government's job is to improve the lot of the travelling public - and the only one of those achieving its aims right now is the RMT...

...though the IET platform length databases don’t appear to have been updated, so you can’t actually board/alight on the extended platforms yet - unless it’s an HST service with a switched-on conductor!

Up platform extension now in use; down not yet.

IIRC the French use "circuler" where we'd use "travel" (as in "passengers must travel via...") but also "run" ("no trains will run..."). I wonder if "circulate" is an inadvertent Gallicism?

No surprise that the new station usage figures show further falls at Kingham, Charlbury and Hanborough, and a further sizeable increase at Oxford Parkway.

That's a great shame. Any justification offered?

The Oxford Evening Out would have been more of a success if it was ever promoted, or indeed if you could buy it from ticket machines. Oxford gateline staff did once refuse to sell one to me for an 'outbound' journey, saying it could only be bought from the country stations, which smelt like unadulterated horse dung (the claim, not the stations).