Latest posts tagged with #ukrail on Bluesky
1/3🚂 Glasgow Central is still shut until at least Wednesday. Liverpool Street is closed all day. No direct LNER to King's Cross. Circle, H&C & Met lines all down. If you're travelling anywhere in the UK today — have you actually checked your route yet? #UKPrepperHub #UKRail
ALL ABOARD! We are kicking off our brand new blog series exploring the UK's Train Operating Companies (TOCs).
First up: The Heart of Scotland’s Railway @ScotRail.
#UKRail #ScotRail
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I read this morning that Glasgow Central station is closed after a battery fire yesterday caused a neighbouring building to collapse. Some trains will run through the station but none will stop there.
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Are any […]
Points failure at Clapton causing delays to Greater Anglia and London Overground services via Hackney Downs. Manchester Piccadilly: 3 delayed. Data via busesandtrains.co.uk #UKRail #TrainDelays
Person hit by train near Shenfield disrupting Greater Anglia services. Live data: King's Cross 1 delayed, 1 cancelled; Birmingham New St 3 delayed; Manchester Piccadilly 2 delayed. Data via busesandtrains.co.uk #UKRail #TrainDelays
Realization that if I don’t file my delay repay claim or advance ticket refund right away I simply won’t do it. Realization comes as it’s too late for my travels.
Third party ticket sellers should be able to do (and obliged to file) automatic delay repays on your behalf, regardless of operator […]
A question for #UKRail buffs! Can you claim Delay Repay for a delay you would have experienced due to unplanned disruption, but successfully avoided due to arranging alternative travel at your own expense?
Some context for my situation: I'm looking into making a Delay Repay claim for a journey […]
Fine, I have nothing against multiple unit trains but loco-hauled stock are my favourite. Absolutely.
If Continental Europe still continues to operate loco-hauled stock, the UK should (still) do it too, not get rid of them, Chiltern and TfW already operate them.
#meme #ukrail #locohauledforlife
Dealbh trèana an latha: HST agus Clas 84 ann an Taigh-tasgaidh Nàiseanta nan Rathaidean-iarainn, York #railsky #ukrail
www.theguardian.com/... #UKRail In areas starved of the kind of investment taken for granted in the south-east, the miserable state of northern England’s railways has long been a source of anger and indignation. One analysis of Treasury figures found that the equivalent of seven Elizabeth lines...
www.theguardian.com/... #UKRail A brief recap: the world’s most expensive and long-delayed rail line, HS2, was originally due to speed passengers from London to Birmingham and north on two separate legs to Manchester and Leeds.The northern legs were lopped off in 2023 by Rishi Sunak...
www.theguardian.com/... #UKRail However, mayors may have to raise local funding to pay for parts of the scheme, with the Treasury imposing a £45bn cap as it seeks to avoid the huge overspend that has blighted the construction of HS2.
www.ft.com/content/3f73... #UKRail 🇬🇧 #HS2 Announced more than 15 years ago as a high-speed connection between London, Leeds and Manchester, the curtailed line is on course to win the prize for being the most expensive strip of railway track per kilometre in the world, even on current costings...
A southern rail class 377 train at the platform of Cosham station, one individual can be seen on the right waiting. The weather is sunny & cloudy.
Class 377 sitting at Cosham on a sunny-cloudy day. 15th November 2025.
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#southern #hampshire #trains #uktrains #trainspotting #uktrainspotting #railways #ukrail #photography #nikon
www.theguardian.com/business/202... #UKRail 🇬🇧Rail unions are campaigning to end the widespread outsourcing of jobs such as cleaning, security and catering, arguing that staff employed by third-party companies have worse conditions and that profits could be reinvested in the railway. 🤔
www.theguardian.com/business/202... #UKRail 🇬🇧 One last corner of St Pancras station is polluted by the fug of diesel trains – but not for much longer. East Midlands Railway will fire up its diesel units in London for the final time by the end of 2026.
We went to London Victoria to inspect the Railway 200 "Inspiration" train.
With Class 66's in some bold liveries hauling a generator van from a failed 1990s sleeper project.
Watch our new video here: youtu.be/Fr5RTJXNqz4
#Railway200 #Class66 #Nightstar #UKRail #TrainSpotting #RailwayMayhem
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... #UKRail 🇬🇧 Ten years ago, I walked the route of HS2, the 140-mile railway proposed to run from London to Birmingham, to discover what lay in its path. Nothing had actually been constructed of this, supposedly the first phase of a high-speed line going north...
Liverpool Street has no mainline trains Dec 27, 2025, to Jan 1, 2026. Stratford for Greater Anglia and Stansted Express, c2c to Fenchurch St. #London #UKRail
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www.railwaypro.com/wp/the-new-g... #UKRail 🇬🇧 The launch coincides with the debate in Parliament on the Railways Bill, the legislative framework that will allow most trains to be returned to public ownership. “The future of British railways begins today,” said Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander.
Avanti West Coast will cut weekday direct trains between London and Blackpool to one each way, so most trips will need a change at Preston. #UKrail #Blackpool
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CrossCountry's December strikes are off, but Saturdays stay busy and engineering near Chesterfield can add 60 minutes on Derby to Scotland trains. #UKRail
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CrossCountry December rail strikes will hit key UK routes on four Saturdays, with limited trains on many long distance lines. #UKRail #RailStrikes
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And it's in, #Stowmarket ##GreaterAnglia #Ukrail #avabridge #Stowmarketfootbridge
railway-news.com/british-tran... #UKRail 🇬🇧 The cameras capture live footage of pedestrians passing before comparing their faces against an intelligence-led database of wanted offenders. If there is a match, an alert is generated, prompting an officer to review it and carry out further checks...
Four Saturdays of CrossCountry strikes will cut routes through Birmingham New Street and affect airport links, so plan backup routes for rail trips. #UKRail
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www.politico.eu/article/euro... #UKRail 🇬🇧 Eurotunnel, the company which owns the under-sea link, says a business rates revaluation on its infrastructure will effectively treble its payments and see it paying 75 percent tax on new investments. The firm says costs will be passed onto operators.
📣 Now available: Version 61 (Dec) of our UK Train Network Map – the definitive poster for professionals in transport planning, infrastructure, real-estate, education and beyond.
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