West Midlands Railway, London Northwestern Railway, Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry and Chiltern Railways said services would be fully suspended. And Transport for Wales has said it will only operate a line in South Wales amid a co-ordinated walkout by four unions set...
The year closed out with bad weather in the Midlands and North East. Walsall station, as usual, was flooded after torrential rain on December 29th. Heavy snow over the New Year plagued services with delays and faulty equipment made life even more difficult to maintain the timetable. In the ...
2. Use double-decker trains. The oft-quoted problem of low bridges can be easily resolved by lowering the track under these. Less than a mile of track would need lowering for each low bridge, and this could be done much more quickly and cheaply than building a whole new railway. Lifelog...
Manchester Piccadillyis a big, light, airy railway station with plenty of eateries and shops if you need to grab anything before boarding the Avanti West Coast train. I made my way down the platform to the First-Class carriage, settling into the comfy seat and popping my phone on charge. ...
West Midlands Railway Avanti West Coast reviews Want to read some first-hand reviews of Avanti West Coast services? Check out some reviews below! Manchester to London, a First-Class experience by train After a few days in Manchester for work, it was time for the return south and home via...
The man was pursued and observed from a distance for around 40 minutes, during which time he was seen to run into gardens, climb over fences and go onto railway lines. At 5.12pm, the man was hit by a train on the line near Dartmouth Road, Willesden. The man, believed to be in his...
20 seconds and 400 metres later, the same train meets its Vienna-bound sister (an ICE‑T owned by German Railways DB): The valley widens towards Maria Anzbach. Around here, on 31 December 1930 and again a month later, mysterious railway terrorist Sylvester (or Hungarian: Szilveszter) Matus...
The rail network, which covers travel between London and the north-west, west midlands, north Wales and parts of Scotland, was the multi-billion-pound franchise awarded to FirstGroup in August. With it being one of the busiest train service links in the UK, competition for the suspected...