Recent New Threads
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| Taxi access to stations | v or ^ |
| Cirencester branch: Thames bridge question | v or ^ |
| Did Melksham have trams? | v or ^ |
| Summer Sunday 2025 service reductions - Bristol to Salisbury | v or ^ |
| 25th May 2025 - SWR Franchise expires and services Nationalised | v or ^ |
| Rail Fares - some bargains (and one free) across Europe | v or ^ |
| Last 7 days | |
| Campaign for Better Transport - new chief executive | v or ^ |
| 'Not all train drivers are blokes with big beards' | v or ^ |
| When is a window seat not a window seat? | v or ^ |
| Canal waterways experience - split topic | v or ^ |
| The importance of a RELIABLE service | v or ^ |
| all Paris to London eurostar trains suspended | v or ^ |
| Australia: Teen armed with gun overpowered by passengers onboard plane; Mar 2025 | v or ^ |
| Road closure as new speed limit signs introduced - A46, Cold Ashton, Bristol | v or ^ |
| The LNER Azuma experience | v or ^ |
| "Worst railway stations named and shamed for first time" | v or ^ |
| Coffee Shop offline early on 19th March 2025 | v or ^ |
| Over the country towards Skye | v or ^ |
| Study of disused railways in England and Wales | v or ^ |
| UK's deepest canal lock gets spring clean - West Yorkshire, March 2025 | v or ^ |
| Rail service resumes after borehole discovery at Grange-over-Sands, 1 March 2025 | v or ^ |
| Connectivity - north to south Wales | v or ^ |
| Travelogue by an observing passenger - Melksham to quite far away. | v or ^ |
| Paddington bear stolen,now recovered | v or ^ |
| Up to a month ago | |
| Buses (and trains) in the Wessex - looking forward | v or ^ |
| Why no London trains from Bath Spa 2/3? | v or ^ |
| Wheelchair users / Southern / SWR now taxied as standard from smaller stations? | v or ^ |
| Request to members - please make subject lines read as good headlines! | v or ^ |
| PAYG Smartcard Offer - March 2025. | v or ^ |
| Ticket offices - changes afoot? | v or ^ |
| Ash level crossing | v or ^ |
| any one attending this event in Manchester? | v or ^ |
| MOVED: Wokingham level crossing closures to cause Reading to Bracknell disruption | v or ^ |
| Network Rail fined £3.41m over track worker's death on tracks in Surbiton, 2021 | v or ^ |
| RMT balloting for Industrial action on GWR | v or ^ |
| Better Links - Midsomer Norton and Radstock to Bath and Bristol | v or ^ |
| GP found guilty of obstructing the railway | v or ^ |
| is any one attending this event? | v or ^ |
| Integrated Transport meeting Tuesday Bristol 25 February | v or ^ |
| Advice please, railway embankment repairs and restoring the ecology/replanting. | v or ^ |
| Some pictures from my feed of how they do things different in other countries | v or ^ |
| Missing service | v or ^ |
| Parliamentary Constituency Statistics | v or ^ |
| Jeremy Clarkson working on 60163 'Tornado' - funny ;-) | v or ^ |
| Vintage coaches mark centenary of intercity route - Bristol to London | v or ^ |
| March 2025 Heart of Wessex closure | v or ^ |
| Petition for drivers to be "presumed liable" for cyclist collisions. | v or ^ |
| Timetable change? | v or ^ |
| Railway station could get 300 extra trains a week thanks to £1.75billion project | v or ^ |
| Base data for TravelWatch SouthWest | v or ^ |
| Heritage rail locations across the area | v or ^ |
| Is it April 1st already ?? | v or ^ |
| St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany - Feb 2025 | v or ^ |
| The cost of driverless tube trains | v or ^ |
| 100 years of coach travel | v or ^ |
| Under-21s get £1 bus fares in £100m budget deal - Wales, Feb 2025 | v or ^ |
| Bentley Model Railway Exhibition, Calne, 10th and 11th May 2025 | v or ^ |
| Brighton's last 1900s tram could return to service in 2025 | v or ^ |
| TravelWatch NorthWest - general meetings, June and September 2025 | v or ^ |
| Defibrillators on trains | v or ^ |
| End of horsedrawn service - Wadworth Brewery, Devizes - Feb 2025 | v or ^ |
| 5 Retailers - 5 different fares for same journeys | v or ^ |
| SWR cancels - "that will be £10 please to refund" if you want your money back | v or ^ |
| You thought UK train ticketing was a mess? Try booking one in Europe | v or ^ |
| Proposed further redoubling (England's Economic Heartland report) | v or ^ |
| On difficulties obtaining the fares that are in the system | v or ^ |
| MOVED: Planning permission needed to use a residence as a holiday home or let | v or ^ |
| Old bus converted into 'exciting' school play space - Bristol, February 2025 | v or ^ |
| Open consultation - A railway fit for Britain's future - closes 15th April 2025 | v or ^ |
| All passengers and crew survive plane crash at Toronto airport - Feb 2025 | v or ^ |
| Bus crash in Bolivia kills at least 30 people - Feb 2025 | v or ^ |
| Artificial daftness? (things found online that are suspiciously iffy) | v or ^ |
| Ski lift collapse in Spain injures at least 30 people - Jan 2025 | v or ^ |
| Winter Tour - Melksham to Inverness - 3rd to 6th March 2025 | v or ^ |
| 27th February - day out in Portsmouth | v or ^ |
| Planning permission needed to use a residence as a holiday home or let | v or ^ |
| Not getting email notifications | v or ^ |
| Tickets (and fines) for tourists | v or ^ |
| The Lost Stations of..........Oxford | v or ^ |
| A tough test for Heidi Alexander: just make our railway services reliable | v or ^ |
| Do my eyes deceive me? | v or ^ |
| Where were Finn and I yesterday, 15th February 2025? | v or ^ |
| Eighteen killed in New Delhi railway station crush - 15 Feb 2025 | v or ^ |
| GWR Twitter reduced service | v or ^ |
| Adventurous cat takes train into London | v or ^ |
| In the spirit of 'Desert Island Discs' (BBC Radio 4 series) ... | v or ^ |
| How many countries have you visited? Used a train in? | v or ^ |
| Woodhams Scrapyard, Barry - a history | v or ^ |
| For Valentine's Day | v or ^ |
| Renaming Stations [OTD, 14 Feb 1889 and 2014} | v or ^ |
| Tickets Please ! | v or ^ |
| Elizabeth Line Industrial Action - 2025 | v or ^ |
| First Bus and passenger space heating | v or ^ |
| Incident at Trowbridge station - 13 February 2025 | v or ^ |
| Fatal crash of ICE at level crossing near Hamburg | v or ^ |
| "Old Worse and Worse" | v or ^ |
| First Bus in Bath, first quarter 2025: struggling to run the timetable | v or ^ |
| Most journeys in Wales made on new and improve trains | v or ^ |
| Preston Road - built for the Olympics | v or ^ |
| Bristol Bus Electrification | v or ^ |
| MOVED: Portishead Line Re-Opening confirmed ? | v or ^ |
| Plymouth Argyle 1 - 0 Liverpool | v or ^ |
| Firstgroup: article in the Times newspaper. | v or ^ |
| public open forum of development in and around Bristol Temple meads | v or ^ |
| Mother lands dream job after 10-year career break - Southern Railway | v or ^ |
| Ticket agency sales commission rates | v or ^ |
| Life and Travels of 150 246 | v or ^ |
| Level crossings to close as part of rail upgrades - Surrey, 2025 | v or ^ |
| Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains | v or ^ |
| Heritage railway nominated for award - Kent & East Sussex | v or ^ |
| UK cold snap to bring sleet and hill snow over the weekend - 7 Feb 2025 | v or ^ |
| Rail Innovation Exhibition 2025 - 13th February 2025 | v or ^ |
| How to Run a Railway, Portuguese style. | v or ^ |
| Mainline closed after car crashes on to railway at Salford - 7 Feb 2025 | v or ^ |
| Want to go to Venice - will Innsbruck do you? | v or ^ |
| Final call - now up to 4 minutes at Kings Cross | v or ^ |
| Electrification of Weston Super Mare loop? | v or ^ |
| Congresbury train station clean up | v or ^ |
| Grenfell tower to be demolished | v or ^ |
| Three new bus routes for Bristol | v or ^ |
| Ball bearing attacks on Cambridge local trains | v or ^ |
| 200 years of powered passenger transport on rails in the media | v or ^ |
| Free coffee - Waterloo, Valentine's Day, 2025 | v or ^ |
| Melksham to Europe - all in one book. | v or ^ |
| All the fun of the fare. | v or ^ |
| Coffee Shop - statement on the three day challenge | v or ^ |
| Uber credits | v or ^ |
| Top and bottom stations for passenger convenience | v or ^ |
| MOVED: GWR Rewards - launching March? | v or ^ |
| On progress / improvements on the responsive page and elsewhere | v or ^ |
| Landslips and landslides on the transport networks | v or ^ |
| The moral of this story: Be careful what you wish for ;-) | v or ^ |
| Vibrant or dangerous? Colourful roundabout redesign divides village in Berkshire | v or ^ |
| Railway line under threat after landslip forces closure of track | v or ^ |
| Stop using the word ‘passenger’, Network Rail tells staff | v or ^ |
| Bristol artwork celebrates Brunel's pop-up Crimean hospital | v or ^ |
| Campaign for Better Transport - Campaign for lower fares | v or ^ |
| GWR coat of arms mosaic finds permanent home | v or ^ |
| The sorry state of British train etiquette – and the 10 worst offences | v or ^ |
| St Ives on a blowy January day | v or ^ |
| Allan Maclean: obituary | v or ^ |
| The last train to Callington, Cornwall - from YouTube | v or ^ |
| A journey in the faaar west - Penzance to St Ives - 28th Jan 2025 | v or ^ |
| Children going on holiday during school term time | v or ^ |
| On this day - state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill 30 January 1965 | v or ^ |
| Plymouth's lost railways - from YouTube | v or ^ |
| Old Trafford Regeneration | v or ^ |
| Elizabeth line train speeding 20mph over limit left passengers shaken | v or ^ |
| Melksham to Penzance, 28th January 2025 | v or ^ |
| IEP seats in 2025 | v or ^ |
| Mind the gap / Mind the step | v or ^ |
| Plans for faster trains and 30 new stations | v or ^ |
| Then and Now - North Cornwall Railways and Branchlines | v or ^ |
| Berks & Hants Cancellations, Delays & Alterations 2025 | v or ^ |
| Even I would fly with Ryanair for this !! | v or ^ |
| Much improved explanations on Journey Check | v or ^ |
| 16th August 2025 - Buses to Imber | v or ^ |
| Eurostar axes popular ticket type in major blow for UK passengers | v or ^ |
| MOVED: Storm Eowyn | v or ^ |
| Labour pledges to make Sunday trains as reliable as weekday services | v or ^ |
| Passengers to get new online ticket website under Great British Railways plan | v or ^ |
| Steam trains to return at Severn Beach | v or ^ |
| Southern (and other TOC) rail fares | v or ^ |
| Charfield train station plans, drop in event. | v or ^ |
| Sir Humphrey Appleby makes yet another appearance here on the Coffee Shop forum | v or ^ |
| The English village with links to five US presidents - Barton St David, Somerset | v or ^ |
| West Highland Railway 1960, A Day In The Life - BBC Archive | v or ^ |
| Getting to Bristol by public transport from Melksham | v or ^ |
| A welcome to the Pen and Quill | v or ^ |
| Steam Ship Sheildhall - South Coast / Solent trips this summer (2025) | v or ^ |
| Sunday crew shortages - 2025 | v or ^ |
| Must be quite an eyeful !! | v or ^ |
| Where was Oxonhutch on 15 January? | v or ^ |
