David Stubbings

Waited for an hour in the freezing cold for this shot 🥶😅 #HS2

I remember travelling on these units along this line when growing up. It seems filling in the third rail gaps is out, so whatever replaces them is most likely to be battery-electric.

One thing I really like about the rail industry is people coming up with new ideas and pursuing them. One example is Go-op. If these plans come to fruition it will become the UK's first co-operative and regional open access operator.

Yesterday FirstGroup announced it had acquired the London Paddington-Carmarthen open access operation from Grand Union. Today it announces an order for new trains for both that and its existing Lumo/Hull Trains operations.

FirstGroup now has numerous open access services either already operating or in the pipeline. Lumo and Hull Trains already on the East Coast Main Line, plus it wants Lumo to run to Rochdale from Euston, and serve Carmarthen and Paignton from Paddington.

Office of Rail and Road inundated with more than 80 track applications
www.railmagazine.com/news/2024/11...

Much quieter and smoother than its predecessors.

UK's first tri-mode trains enter service as Transport for Wales' '756s' make passenger debut TfW has begun introducing its tri-mode Class 756 units on the South Wales Metro around Cardiff

They had a low-key introduction last week, but today is their formal launch into service.

www.railmagazine.com/news/2024/11...

Heading down to Cardiff today for the official launch of a new train which, for now at least, is unique among those in service in this country.

Have you ever noticed how many of these offers come from gmail accounts rather than actual firms?!

The next Rail North Committee meeting is on Wednesday when members are due to scrutinise the plan by Northern to address these problems in the short term. We’ll see how that goes.

Thanks. I’m sure more will join pretty soon.

Hello Bluesky! After some encouraging I’ve decided to set up on here, so let’s see what it’s like.