The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom

No recent travel & transport from BBC stories as at 21:15 28 Apr 2024

Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]

22/05/24 - WWRUG / TransWilts update
02/06/24 - Summer Timetable starts
17/08/24 - Bus to Imber
27/09/25 - 200 years of passenger trains

On this day
28th Apr (1996)

GNER franchise (Sea Containers) starts on ECML (*)

• • • • • • Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street

April 28, 2024, 21:28:04

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Most recently liked subjects
[156] Clan Line - by Clan Line !
[134] Visiting the pub on the way home.
[49] South Western Railways Waterloo - Bristol services axed
[47] access for all at Devon stations report
[30] Labour to nationalise railways within five years of coming to ...
[25] Misleading advertising?

News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too

Subject	Started by	Replies	Views	Last post
Should the railways be renationalised? « 1 2 ... 5 6 »	JayMac	80	29771	March 05, 2018, 09:11:13 by Bmblbzzz
Preventing suicide on the railways « 1 2 ... 5 6 »	Tim	79	28680	March 09, 2024, 11:57:24 by GBM
Carillion - railway contractor / public services provider - financial concerns, 2017/18, now in liquidation « 1 2 ... 6 7 »	martyjon	94	27404	October 15, 2023, 20:03:44 by ChrisB
Simon Brown, rail enthusiast, died on Gatwick Express train, 7 Aug 2016 « 1 2 ... 5 6 »	Chris from Nailsea	79	26197	August 04, 2019, 22:54:49 by SandTEngineer
HST derailment, near Stonehaven, 12th August 2020 « 1 2 ... 11 12 »	grahame	171	24276	September 08, 2023, 18:07:35 by Electric train
Electricity - an ongoing technical discussion « 1 2 3 4 5 »	broadgage	60	23571	August 02, 2016, 09:42:42 by TonyK
Climate Change Emergency - Implications for UK Transport Strategy « 1 2 ... 6 7 »	ellendune	102	22990	April 01, 2024, 15:22:11 by broadgage
ScotRail's plans for their HSTs. « 1 2 ... 5 6 »	JayMac	77	22291	October 10, 2018, 22:08:27 by JayMac
Storing petrol « 1 2 ... 9 10 »	broadgage	137	21891	October 15, 2023, 09:35:19 by broadgage
Would it be realistic to renationalise the railways? - BBC News Magazine « 1 2 3 »	JayMac	33	20348	March 09, 2015, 10:06:21 by grahame
BBC1 Countryfile - Settle & Carlisle Line Item	Bob_Blakey	7	18975	June 27, 2020, 11:41:57 by Surrey 455
Network Rail to become public sector body in 2014 « 1 2 3 »	Electric train	39	17818	September 07, 2018, 20:13:06 by stuving
Waterloo Station's Eurostar platforms cost ^4 million	Chris from Nailsea	13	17416	November 14, 2023, 01:43:13 by grahame
Electric and autonomous vehicles « 1 2 ... 5 6 »	Bmblbzzz	89	17064	February 11, 2019, 17:46:07 by Western Pathfinder
East Coast rail franchise - ongoing discussion « 1 2 ... 5 6 »	Chris from Nailsea	83	16522	September 04, 2018, 21:32:48 by Western Pathfinder
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling knocks cyclist off bike - October 2016 « 1 2 »	Chris from Nailsea	18	16459	January 09, 2017, 11:25:05 by ChrisB
BBC - Top 10 most crowded trains named « 1 2 3 »	chrisr_75	38	15938	August 03, 2017, 21:00:40 by Gordon the Blue Engine
Safe use of stations « 1 2 »	Western Pathfinder	23	15145	March 10, 2019, 16:10:46 by Bmblbzzz
Network Rail - Scoping Study into the future, by Nicola Shaw « 1 2 »	SandTEngineer	28	15135	March 16, 2016, 17:10:32 by ChrisB
Phil Sayer, BBC presenter and railway announcer, died 14 April 2016: RIP « 1 2 »	SandTEngineer	27	14855	April 16, 2016, 06:44:47 by Timmer

Topic you have posted in

Normal Topic

Hot Topic (More than 15 replies)

Very Hot Topic (More than 25 replies)

Locked Topic

Sticky Topic

Poll

Jump to: