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| For those of our members / readers who don't like coal fired power stations ... | v or ^ |
| Work to start on England's 'first Cycle Street' - Cambridge, October 2025 | v or ^ |
| New Devon & Cornwall Police £350k patrol boat to help fight offshore crime | v or ^ |
| Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised' | v or ^ |
| Railfuture, Severnside - 18th October 2025 | v or ^ |
| GWR Train / Bus integration - WWRUG, 26th November 2025, Trowbridge. All welcome | v or ^ |
| Last 7 days | |
| Bristol's number 8 bus and 'The centre'. | v or ^ |
| Bath: use of Manvers Street bus stop | v or ^ |
| Caledonian Sleeper from Birmingham International from Jan 2026 | v or ^ |
| First Electric freight train on GWML - 30th September 2025 | v or ^ |
| Record crowd fills 'world's longest railway bench' in Scarborough - Sep 2025 | v or ^ |
| People living near River Frome worried about repeat of autumn floods in 2025 | v or ^ |
| North Somerset Council hope miniature railway could return to Clevedon in 2026 | v or ^ |
| Woman sought over Paddington station sex assault on teenager - 31 August 2025 | v or ^ |
| Photographers asked to tell story of rail travel | v or ^ |
| Bath Christmas Market - 27 November to 14 December 2025 | v or ^ |
| GWR - Incorrect or no fares being offered | v or ^ |
| Thames Valley 10% rail fare increases 'ridiculous' | v or ^ |
| Stockport: How rail closure for £20m works will affect travel - October 2025 | v or ^ |
| MOVED: railway stamps to be released | v or ^ |
| Optional expenditure on travel and transport associated activities | v or ^ |
| MOVED: Dry ice to be used to clear rail leaves in trial by Northern, Autumn 2025 | v or ^ |
| How Oliver Bulleid, a maverick engineer, helped shape modern rail | v or ^ |
| Bath Down Goods Loop notice to loco crew. | v or ^ |
| Model railway delivers food and drink in cafe at Newenden, Kent | v or ^ |
| Red Roses victory honoured with GWR train tribute | v or ^ |
| New Towns across the South West | v or ^ |
| GWR "to be brought back into public ownership" | v or ^ |
| Petition to halve speed limit | v or ^ |
| Principle railways of England and Wales, 1898 | v or ^ |
| Up to a month ago | |
| Oldest purpose built railway pub identified | v or ^ |
| Ah, but is it the SOUTH WEST?? | v or ^ |
| 'I'm heartbroken kids racially abused me on train' | v or ^ |
| Driver and teacher hurt in A36 school coach crash - 25 September 2025 | v or ^ |
| Customers cannot travel on plans and promises. They need real trains | v or ^ |
| Public Transport and the Environment - the picture with a Melksham slant | v or ^ |
| Dilton Marsh - stop orders when the train scheduled to call is cancelled. | v or ^ |
| Day out - anyone care to join me from Melksham to Oxford? Sat 27 Sep 2025 | v or ^ |
| Pathfinder Tours to close | v or ^ |
| Mystery white powder causes services west of Axminster to be pulled - 23/09/25 | v or ^ |
| Legendary cricket umpire Harold 'Dickie' Bird dies aged 92 | v or ^ |
| Promise to reduce cancellations at Ledbury | v or ^ |
| Five tips to make friends while travelling solo | v or ^ |
| Parallel Universe - cancelation rates across the UK and local to me. | v or ^ |
| From Finn and JayMac's weekend away. Where's this? | v or ^ |
| Five minutes to do your shopping in Newton Stewart | v or ^ |
| The old Swansea railway that was the world's first passenger line - March 1807 | v or ^ |
| The Peterborough Arms, Dauntsey Lock | v or ^ |
| Where were Marion and I walking our dog today? | v or ^ |
| City of London to examine tougher cycling fines | v or ^ |
| South Wessex CRP (Heart of Wessex Line) seeks new chair | v or ^ |
| UK comparison / "How do buses and trains keep running in Scandinavia" | v or ^ |
| What is/was this? | v or ^ |
| London train passengers shell-shocked after live crab found - on own seat | v or ^ |
| Where were Finn and I, getting drenched, today 20/09/2025? | v or ^ |
| Dorset, Thousands of proposed extra homes, some near stations | v or ^ |
| First South West bus workers to be balloted on strike action - Sep 2025 | v or ^ |
| Cyber-attack causes delays at Heathrow and other European airports - 20 Sep 2025 | v or ^ |
| Loos for bus drivers | v or ^ |
| 60 years ago - and a thought of what might have been. | v or ^ |
| Bristol Airport: new topic posted here - subject to merging with existing topics | v or ^ |
| Man dies after falling from hot air balloon - West Sussex, 19 Sep 2025 | v or ^ |
| Timetables, booking procedure and travelling - Indian style | v or ^ |
| Two South Western Ambulance workers arrested after six people die in Wiltshire | v or ^ |
| Where's Finn, 19/09/2025? | v or ^ |
| Nailsea & Backwell station closed temporarily due to road traffic collision | v or ^ |
| Manchester bus services 'badly affected' as strike begins - September 2025 | v or ^ |
| London Transport Museum Depot - Acton Town | v or ^ |
| Best places to live - by county - in the South West | v or ^ |
| SailRail - Transport for Wales suspends ticket sales | v or ^ |
| Public name for a rail cleaning train | v or ^ |
| Checkpoint September 2025 - looking back 20 years, and forward 10. | v or ^ |
| railway stamps to be released | v or ^ |
| Train with catering from Bradford on Avon today | v or ^ |
| Couldn't upload a pic | v or ^ |
| Where was PhilW - 17/09/25 | v or ^ |
| Axminster to Lyme Regis with narrow gauge - 1974 | v or ^ |
| Single bought, return journey made. | v or ^ |
| You don't relieve road congestion in cities by building more roads | v or ^ |
| More and more driving tests are on automatic cars. | v or ^ |
| Acting legend Robert Redford dies aged 89 | v or ^ |
| Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, architect of railway stations, has died aged 85 | v or ^ |
| TravelWatch SouthWest General Meeting, 7th March 2026 (or 6th) | v or ^ |
| 5th December 2025 - TravelWatch SouthWest AGM | v or ^ |
| Ravensthorpe railway station to close in December 2025 for three-year rebuild | v or ^ |
| Castle Cary station may soon actually be in Castle Cary! | v or ^ |
| A year later - my (Graham Ellis) Social Media presence | v or ^ |
| Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness train hits van on level crossing - 13 Sep 2025 | v or ^ |
| Britain’s 20 biggest rail operators, ranked from worst to best | v or ^ |
| East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform | v or ^ |
| Reminder - the Melksham service IS used | v or ^ |
| Christian transport walk | v or ^ |
| Portion for Weston super Mare today | v or ^ |
| Part 2 of "On the rails. off the rails" | v or ^ |
| On the rails to off the rails - part 1 | v or ^ |
| What Happens When.............? | v or ^ |
| 'Huge amount' of silt keeps Gloucester Lock shut after summer dry weather - 2025 | v or ^ |
| Unease after village crowned world's most beautiful - Bibury, Gloucestershire | v or ^ |
| Good service? Say it officially and disjoint managers may believe it? | v or ^ |
| Hitchhiking | v or ^ |
| A new class of refund needed ...... | v or ^ |
| Steam engine Newstead on the Blaenavon Heritage Railway | v or ^ |
| Bristol - Prince Street bridge to be closed to all cars | v or ^ |
| Murder accused boy appears in court after stabbing at Seaford station, 10 Sep 25 | v or ^ |
| Melksham trains - "useless" has improved, but only to thin and unreliable | v or ^ |
| Gloucester closure at end of September 2025 - effect on TransWilts | v or ^ |
| Colne Valley Viaduct - Britain's longest railway bridge completed | v or ^ |
| Melksham Transport User Group / Committee Level / 25th September 2025 | v or ^ |
| Merchant Navy loco coming to Yeovil | v or ^ |
| Very unusual aircraft | v or ^ |
| Promoting cycling to less frequent users | v or ^ |
| OpenRailwayMap | v or ^ |
| Westbury White Horse - historic Wiltshire landmark | v or ^ |
| Northern Powerhouse Rail - plans for east to west high speed rail links delayed again | v or ^ |
| Reversals mid-line. Watch Battersby for Combe and Bere Alston? | v or ^ |
| Yet another Rail Minister - Had a YP Railcard last year! | v or ^ |
| High rail fares - limited to the UK? | v or ^ |
| No trains will call Gloucester 27 September- 5th October 2025 | v or ^ |
| Unused equipment to be donated to Kent heritage railway - Sep 2025 | v or ^ |
| Abbey Wood station | v or ^ |
| Surrey rail closures prompt travel warning for passengers - 25 Oct to 2 Nov 2025 | v or ^ |
| WWRUG, 17th September 2025, Trowbridge. All welcome | v or ^ |
| When is the emergency alert test on mobile phones and can you opt out? | v or ^ |
| We may grumble at time - but a lot is right. Day trip to Weymouth. | v or ^ |
| A fear of driving / on the rise | v or ^ |
| 9.08 Bristol to Weymouth 7/9/25 | v or ^ |
| Somerset and Dorset remembered | v or ^ |
| Almost lost - the railway to Barnstaple - from the archives | v or ^ |
| OCC Rail Plan | v or ^ |
| OCC Consultation on Rail in Oxfordshire - Closes Oct 1st | v or ^ |
| Not all heroes wear capes | v or ^ |
| To Lubeck and back - with a trip on the Molli Bahn as a bonus | v or ^ |
| Pedestrians injured after bus mounts pavement near Victoria station - 4 Sep 2025 | v or ^ |
| Where do I post this ... ? | v or ^ |
| 16 dead after historic funicular railway derails in Lisbon - 3 September 2025 | v or ^ |
| Boats stranded in Aylesbury after Grand Union Canal dries up during drought | v or ^ |
| New TFW Cardiff and West Wales to Bristol Temple Meads service | v or ^ |
| LNER: further fare simplification | v or ^ |
| Interrail pass - flash sale until 9th September 2025 | v or ^ |
| First passenger call of an Intercity Express Train at Melksham | v or ^ |
| Farm railway turns 100 but faces uncertain future / Dodding's Farm | v or ^ |
| TravelWatch SouthWest - October 24th 2025 - Taunton | v or ^ |
| £100m tender forTVMs, ticket machines, Accessible Rail Information etc | v or ^ |
| A look around Frome with bias toward the station - 11/9/2025 | v or ^ |
| Closure - Bexley, permanent from Saturday 6th September 2025 | v or ^ |
| Scotland scraps peak rail fares - will the rest of the UK follow? (Sep 2025) | v or ^ |
| Camilla fought off attacker with shoe as teenager, book says - Paddington train | v or ^ |
| ALERT - 1.9.2025 - Unplanned temporary closure of service | v or ^ |
| Seasonal update - Coffee Shop and other activities - 1st September 2025 | v or ^ |
| Swindon's new bus interchange opens - 31 Aug 25 | v or ^ |
| Belmond Britannic Explorer | v or ^ |
| Ticketless rail travel to be trialled, by using Apps instead | v or ^ |
| Finn the crossing keeper. | v or ^ |
| Jersey train company hoping to bring services back to island - August 2025 | v or ^ |
| Solent Tunnel, between the mainland and the Isle of Wight | v or ^ |
| Railway disaster remembered after being lost in time - Witham, 1 September 1905 | v or ^ |
| Quality control - train staff checking the food and drink offering | v or ^ |
| Felletin - the bullet once avoided, and to be avoided again, at Melksham | v or ^ |
| Crusing on the Exe - getting refreshed right through | v or ^ |
| GWR Pembroke Dock Services Summer 2025 | v or ^ |
| Server problems from around 22:30 on 29th August 2025 | v or ^ |
| New bench and planters at bus stop outside railway station in Cornwall: Aug 2025 | v or ^ |
| "Passenger fined €85 after cat ‘miaows too loudly’ on train" - The Independent | v or ^ |
| Cycling race website censors name of small Welsh village - Powys, August 2025 | v or ^ |
| Train delayed 'due to people trying to hang flags' - Market Harborough, Aug 2025 | v or ^ |
| Incorrect SWR Train Cancellation Information From GWR! | v or ^ |
| Bath Spa - Bristol Temple Meads Oct 27-30 replacement buses only | v or ^ |
| Heart of Wessex Day Ranger - 2025 update, anyone | v or ^ |
| Responsible travel - the countries that are "doing better" than the UK | v or ^ |
| Access to Nailsea & Backwell station | v or ^ |
| Where am I going (27 August) | v or ^ |
| Northern Ireland town 'bemused and confused' as big yellow box disappears | v or ^ |
| Scottish castle with miniature railway on the market for £3.25m | v or ^ |
