Heritage railways, Railtours, buses, canals, steamships and other public transport based attractions
Railway lines and other public transport attractions, largely separate from the national network. Covers those saved from closure, reinstated or specially built and includes commemorative events.

Finally, a couple of musical videos which are my taste, have railway content, and are guarantee to irritate anyone else in the room the second or third time you play them:
https://youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU
https://youtu.be/cD3QlR98--A

Here's another new topic I've primed, ready.  CfN. 

Would the same argument be used for heritage railways?   Just being the Devils Advocate 

Just two cancellations across the whole GWR are as I write.   No prizes for guessing where, or why!

21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 22:31
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If you really require those details, ChrisB, they are readily available in the full list on the Government's website ...

However, there are some other names in that list, where senior people at the Department for Transport have been awarded "Order of the Bath, Companions of the Order of the Bath" for 'Services to Transport'. Surely, they were just doing their jobs - for which they are probably already very well paid?

Chime Whistle Publishing has retweeted his claim about this timetable change, saying yesterday -

Chime Whistle Publishing has retweeted his claim about this timetable change, saying yesterday -

Probably because of complaints (from a certain member   ) that none-travel, none-south-west topics that could dilute the forum's inetrests be kept to one or two places - and "Introductions and Chat" and "And Also" were the two chosen places.  So correct for the thread to be started here, and as it's likely to be a long runner with a number of follow ups, it would get lost and confuse a general canal thread.  


Ah ... where??   I think we both come from the viewpoint that the canals are not really a means of transport these days.

TaplowGreen, the Coffee Shop forum is prepared for you.

As for a timetable change.... The number of GU's isolated has dropped significantly so I can't see them making that decision now.  They believe the problem is related to contaminated fuel (salt specifically)

Revised timetable coming into force from 5 January, to allow for two trains to have ten hour repair slots in depot.

Valid on all scheduled services wholly within Scotland, including to and Carlisle and Berwick-Upon-Tweed.

Travel is valid Monday to Friday on trains departing after 09:15 and on any service at the weekend

The restriction does not apply to customers travelling on the following routes:

Glasgow Queen Street - Oban/Fort William/Mallaig.
Inverness - Kyle /Wick/Thurso.
Glasgow Central - Stranraer.
Direct services from Lockerbie to Carlisle, Carstairs, Motherwell or Glasgow Central.

Valid anytime Monday to Friday, and all day Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays on trains from Pwllheli to Aberystwyth and Machynlleth.

Errr....why is this here & not in the canals thread? Took an age to find it....

Sorry, I'm in the middle of moving it: it's a specific infrastructure issue in the UK, not a viable alternative means of travel.

There isn't a specific board for 'canals': perhaps there should be?

CfN. 

Workers attempt to rescue three narrowboats dragged to the depths by canal collapse

Workers have attempted to salvage three narrowboats that were dragged to the depths of a gaping canal collapse in Shropshire.

Aerial pictures show the vessels submerged in mud with bits of debris scattered round them and a long stretch of corrugated metal draped over.

At least 10 people were rescued on Monday last week when the crater, around 50 meters by 50 metres in size, began to form at 4.22am in the Chemistry area of Whitchurch.

Firefighters arrived on scene shortly after 4.40am when the section of the canal mooring three boats completely drained of water.

Two narrowboats had fallen into the hole and were left sitting on the canal bed, while one remained teetering over the edge.

This morning, emergency workers in orange high-vis vests were pictured positioning boat turners in a bid to winch the stranded vessels to safety.

Pumps were put in place to keep water levels normal and to prevent further catastrophic flooding.

Workers were also seen positioning a boat turner amid the rescue operation

Canal and River Trust chief executive Campbell Robb said: 'Now the initial emergency response, including the concern for boaters' immediate safety, has passed, our teams have been working hard to refill the Llangollen Canal around the site of the breach.

'This will mean the boats in the immediate area are refloating, and navigation along other affected areas will be restored.'We are also delighted to have been able to recover narrowboat Pacemaker from the edge of the breach overnight.

'Alongside this, our engineers are continuing their investigations into why the canal embankment was undermined and will be drawing up plans for its repair.

'We'll be providing regular updates and assurance to the local and boating community in the weeks ahead.

'Thankfully, breaches of this scale are relatively rare, but, when they do occur, they're expensive and complicated to fix.'

Mr Robb added he was thankful initial support had been in place for all people 'and pets' caught up in the 'disaster'.

'With most of the boats now refloating, we'll continue to support those affected,' he said.

Last week crews battled through 'unstable ground and rapidly moving water' as they began to rescue 14 members of the public.

The canal bank collapsed leaving large volumes of water escaping into the surrounding land.

Residents were urged to avoid the area, while emergency services responded to the incident.

A 'multi-agency' response was set up but no injuries were reported.

The town's former bus station is being removed following the opening of a new £33m bus interchange on Fleming Way in September. Councillor Robbins said the old bus station failed to create a good first impression of the town and Fleming Way is a "more pleasant environment".