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Coffee Shop - railway news
Public topics from 1 Sep to 1 Oct 2025
Public topics from 1 Sep to 1 Oct 2025
Introductions and chatOptional expenditure on travel and transport associated activities28 Sep 2025
-Five tips to make friends while travelling solo23 Sep 2025
-Checkpoint September 2025 - looking back 20 years, and forward 10.19 Sep 2025
-A year later - my (Graham Ellis) Social Media presence15 Sep 2025
-We may grumble at time - but a lot is right. Day trip to Weymouth. 7 Sep 2025
-To Lubeck and back - with a trip on the Molli Bahn as a bonus 4 Sep 2025
-Seasonal update - Coffee Shop and other activities - 1st September 2025 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Calling for an election - Melksham Town (South Ward) - 9 October 202525 Sep 2025
-Re: Spreading wings for a few days17 Sep 2025
Who's who on Western railwaysYet another Rail Minister - Had a YP Railcard last year! 9 Sep 2025
Smoke and MirrorsParallel Universe - cancelation rates across the UK and local to me.23 Sep 2025
-Good service? Say it officially and disjoint managers may believe it?13 Sep 2025
-Re: What would you gamble on. Horses, Cards, lottery, getting home at night? 2 Sep 2025
Fare's FairGWR - Incorrect or no fares being offered29 Sep 2025
-Thames Valley 10% rail fare increases 'ridiculous'29 Sep 2025
-SailRail - Transport for Wales suspends ticket sales19 Sep 2025
-Single bought, return journey made.17 Sep 2025
-A new class of refund needed ...... 12 Sep 2025
-High rail fares - limited to the UK? 9 Sep 2025
-Interrail pass - flash sale until 9th September 2025 3 Sep 2025
-Re: Ticketless rail travel to be trialled, by using Apps instead 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Rail companies scrapping peak fares, claims of 'cheapest tickets online' - merged topics 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Railway Ticket Vending Machines (TVM) - merged topics, ongoing discussion 2 Sep 2025
-Re: The Consultation is On!10 Sep 2025
Buses and other ways to travelBristol's number 8 bus and 'The centre'. 1 Oct 2025
-Petition to halve speed limit26 Sep 2025
-Five minutes to do your shopping in Newton Stewart22 Sep 2025
-Cyber-attack causes delays at Heathrow and other European airports - 20 Sep 202520 Sep 2025
-Loos for bus drivers20 Sep 2025
-Manchester bus services 'badly affected' as strike begins - September 202519 Sep 2025
-More and more driving tests are on automatic cars. 17 Sep 2025
-Hitchhiking13 Sep 2025
-Very unusual aircraft10 Sep 2025
-Pedestrians injured after bus mounts pavement near Victoria station - 4 Sep 2025 4 Sep 2025
-Re: British Airways attendant found naked and on drugs in onboard toilet19 Sep 2025
-Re: Caledonian MacBrayne ferries in Scotland15 Sep 2025
-Driver and teacher hurt in A36 school coach crash - 25 September 202525 Sep 2025
-Re: Cross-Solent ferries, between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight29 Sep 2025
-Re: Bristol Airport - proposals for expansion, bus services and infrastructure - ongoing discussion19 Sep 2025
-Re: Gatwick Airport - facilities, improvements and incidents - merged posts, ongoing discussion21 Sep 2025
-Re: Swindon bus station, bus services and new interchange - merged topics 1 Sep 2025
-Re: 16th August 2025 - Buses to Imber 3 Sep 2025
-Re: Buses and coaches bursting into flames - why are they apparently so combustible? 7 Sep 2025
-Bath: use of Manvers Street bus stop 1 Oct 2025
-Re: Ferries across waterways - whether by vehicle, foot or both (merged posts)22 Sep 2025
-Re: Clifton Suspension Bridge - toll road bridge in Bristol25 Sep 2025
Your rights and redressRe: Court punishments short of prison to include driving bans 1 Sep 2025
London to ReadingRe: Chalvey Halt 6 Sep 2025
London to Didcot, Oxford and BanburyOCC Consultation on Rail in Oxfordshire - Closes Oct 1st 5 Sep 2025
-Re: Oxford station - facilities, improvements, parking, incidents and events - merged posts 9 Sep 2025
London to Swindon and BristolBath Down Goods Loop notice to loco crew.28 Sep 2025
London to South WalesRe: GWR Pembroke Dock Services Summer 2025 6 Sep 2025
London to the WestRe: Night Riviera Sleeper train - between Paddington and Penzance - ongoing discussion 2 Sep 2025
Thames Valley BranchesRe: GWR's Battery Electric Train - ongoing discussion29 Sep 2025
London to the CotswoldsPromise to reduce cancellations at Ledbury23 Sep 2025
-OCC Rail Plan 5 Sep 2025
-Re: North Cotswold line delays and cancellations - 2025 1 Sep 2025
North Downs LineRe: Chilworth Chicken - memorial felled by accident during rail repairs29 Sep 2025
TransWilts line - Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, SalisburyCustomers cannot travel on plans and promises. They need real trains25 Sep 2025
-Public Transport and the Environment - the picture with a Melksham slant24 Sep 2025
-Day out - anyone care to join me from Melksham to Oxford? Sat 27 Sep 202524 Sep 2025
-Reminder - the Melksham service IS used15 Sep 2025
-Melksham trains - "useless" has improved, but only to thin and unreliable12 Sep 2025
-Gloucester closure at end of September 2025 - effect on TransWilts11 Sep 2025
-Melksham Transport User Group / Committee Level / 25th September 202511 Sep 2025
-First passenger call of an Intercity Express Train at Melksham 3 Sep 2025
-Re: Melksham's rail service - where are we, on the anniversary of being Beechinged?16 Sep 2025
-Re: Swindon <-> Westbury service updates and amendments, ongoing discussion - 2025 2 Sep 2025
-Re: [otd] 9th September 2006 - Last commuter train (for over 7 years) to Melksham 9 Sep 2025
-Re: 20 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting20 Sep 2025
Heart of WessexSouth Wessex CRP (Heart of Wessex Line) seeks new chair21 Sep 2025
-9.08 Bristol to Weymouth 7/9/25 7 Sep 2025
-A look around Frome with bias toward the station - 11/9/2025 2 Sep 2025
-Castle Cary station may soon actually be in Castle Cary!16 Sep 2025
Portsmouth to CardiffDilton Marsh - stop orders when the train scheduled to call is cancelled.24 Sep 2025
-Portion for Weston super Mare today14 Sep 2025
Bristol and Bath (WECA, now WEMCA)Bath Christmas Market - 27 November to 14 December 202529 Sep 2025
-First South West bus workers to be balloted on strike action - Sep 202520 Sep 2025
-60 years ago - and a thought of what might have been.20 Sep 2025
-You don't relieve road congestion in cities by building more roads17 Sep 2025
-Bristol - Prince Street bridge to be closed to all cars12 Sep 2025
-New TFW Cardiff and West Wales to Bristol Temple Meads service 3 Sep 2025
-Re: Bath Spa - Bristol Temple Meads Oct 27-30 replacement buses only 4 Sep 2025
-Re: Bristol First Bus drivers strike action - Sep / Oct 2025, now resolved13 Sep 2025
-Re: Nailsea & Backwell station - access issues19 Sep 2025
-Re: New station at Henbury, Bristol 1 Oct 2025
-Re: MetroWest services begin24 Sep 2025
-Re: Bonaparte's at Bristol Temple Meads23 Sep 2025
-Re: Bristol Temple Meads - station, facilities, incidents and events (merged posts) 8 Sep 2025
Oxford, Didcot and Reading from the WestRe: New Oxford - Bristol direct service, ongoing developments and discussion 6 Sep 2025
Shorter journeys in South and West WalesRe: Cardiff Bay Station branch19 Sep 2025
Shorter journeys in Devon - Central, North and SouthAlmost lost - the railway to Barnstaple - from the archives 5 Sep 2025
Shorter journeys in Plymouth and CornwallReversals mid-line. Watch Battersby for Combe and Bere Alston? 9 Sep 2025
-Re: Cornish mainline and branch line delays - ongoing discussion 4 Sep 2025
Across the WestCaledonian Sleeper from Birmingham International from Jan 2026 1 Oct 2025
-First Electric freight train on GWML - 30th September 2025 1 Oct 2025
-MOVED: railway stamps to be released 29 Sep 2025
-Red Roses victory honoured with GWR train tribute28 Sep 2025
-GWR "to be brought back into public ownership"27 Sep 2025
-Public name for a rail cleaning train19 Sep 2025
-Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, architect of railway stations, has died aged 8516 Sep 2025
-What Happens When.............?13 Sep 2025
-Re: "More trains than usual needing repair"13 Sep 2025
-Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 202511 Sep 2025
-Re: Class 175s to Great Western Railway (GWR)14 Sep 2025
-Re: GWR - Eight years old today 15 Sep 2025
-Re: Problems with Hitachi Intercity Express Trains - ongoing discussion since 2022 5 Sep 2025
-Re: Automated information defects on the railways - merged topics, ongoing discussion21 Sep 2025
-Re: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing discussion14 Sep 2025
Campaigns for new and improved servicesDorset, Thousands of proposed extra homes, some near stations20 Sep 2025
-Re: Solent Tunnel, between the mainland and the Isle of Wight 1 Sep 2025
-Re: North Dorset Railway Trust - Shillingstone 3 Sep 2025
-Re: Minehead Rail Link Group16 Sep 2025
-Re: Reopening Cullompton and Wellington stations (merged topic)16 Sep 2025
-Re: Portishead Line reopening for passengers - ongoing discussion 7 Sep 2025
News, Help and AssistanceCouldn't upload a pic17 Sep 2025
-Where do I post this ... ? 4 Sep 2025
-ALERT - 1.9.2025 - Unplanned temporary closure of service 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Coffee shop - which search engines find us, and which do you use? 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Media links29 Sep 2025
-Re: Server slow ... 4 Sep 2025
-Re: The Coffee Shop, online safety and the Online Safety Act 3 Sep 2025
The Lighter SideModel railway delivers food and drink in cafe at Newenden, Kent28 Sep 2025
-Ah, but is it the SOUTH WEST??25 Sep 2025
-From Finn and JayMac's weekend away. Where's this? 22 Sep 2025
-Where were Marion and I walking our dog today?21 Sep 2025
-London train passengers shell-shocked after live crab found - on own seat20 Sep 2025
-Where were Finn and I, getting drenched, today 20/09/2025?20 Sep 2025
-Where's Finn, 19/09/2025?19 Sep 2025
-Where was PhilW - 17/09/2517 Sep 2025
-Not all heroes wear capes 5 Sep 2025
-Re: Finn the crossing keeper. 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Where am I going (27 August) 2 Sep 2025
-Re: Squirrels - red, grey or albino, on the railways or otherwise - ongoing discussion25 Sep 2025
The West - but NOT trains in the WestNew Towns across the South West28 Sep 2025
-The Peterborough Arms, Dauntsey Lock21 Sep 2025
-Two South Western Ambulance workers arrested after six people die in Wiltshire19 Sep 2025
-Best places to live - by county - in the South West19 Sep 2025
-East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform15 Sep 2025
-Part 2 of "On the rails. off the rails"14 Sep 2025
-On the rails to off the rails - part 114 Sep 2025
-Cotswold villages - residents' concerns over tourist numbers13 Sep 2025
-Re: Job losses in hotels - all to do with Ms R Reeves?? 2 Sep 2025
-Re: Samaritans to close more than 100 branches 26 Sep 2025
-Re: Mining in Cornwall30 Sep 2025
-Re: Electric 'flying taxis', trialled in Bristol, to be built at Cotswold Airport23 Sep 2025
-Re: Seagulls: particularly in Bath, Bristol, Cornwall and Minehead - ongoing discussion 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Weston-super-Mare - Birnbeck Pier restoration: ongoing developments and discussion 8 Sep 2025
Diary - what's happening when?TravelWatch SouthWest General Meeting, Friday 6 March 202616 Sep 2025
-5th December 2025 - TravelWatch SouthWest AGM16 Sep 2025
-Christian transport walk15 Sep 2025
-WWRUG, 17th September 2025, Trowbridge. All welcome 7 Sep 2025
-TravelWatch SouthWest - October 24th 2025 - Taunton 2 Sep 2025
-Re: West Wiltshire Rail User Group - provisional meetings for 2025 7 Sep 2025
Swindon to Gloucester / CheltenhamRe: Gloucester - station, facilities, services, events & incidents (merged posts)29 Sep 2025
Looking forward - the next 2, 5, 10 and 20 yearsRe: Project Churchward - future regional fleet for the West, new rolling stock to replace DMUs20 Sep 2025
-Re: OTD - 28th September 2014 - end of Harwich - Esbjerg Ferry28 Sep 2025
-Dry ice to be used to clear rail leaves in trial by Northern, Autumn 202528 Sep 2025
South Western servicesMystery white powder causes services west of Axminster to be pulled - 23/09/2523 Sep 2025
-Re: Trains not calling at Crewkerne from 28 July 202513 Sep 2025
Cross Country servicesNo trains will call Gloucester 27 September- 5th October 2025 9 Sep 2025
Transport for LondonAbbey Wood station 8 Sep 2025
-Re: London Underground - industrial action by RMT, September 2025 4 Sep 2025
-Re: Bus Service 205 8 Sep 2025
-Re: Docklands Light Railway (DLR) 1 Oct 2025
Heritage railways, Railtours, buses, canals, steamships and other public transport based attractionsClevedon miniature railway to be restored - ongoing developments30 Sep 2025
-Pathfinder Tours to close24 Sep 2025
-What is/was this?20 Sep 2025
-London Transport Museum Depot - Acton Town19 Sep 2025
-Axminster to Lyme Regis with narrow gauge - 197417 Sep 2025
-Steam engine Newstead on the Blaenavon Heritage Railway 12 Sep 2025
-Merchant Navy loco coming to Yeovil10 Sep 2025
-Unused equipment to be donated to Kent heritage railway - Sep 2025 8 Sep 2025
-Belmond Britannic Explorer 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Trains on Salisbury Plain with nowhere to go10 Sep 2025
-Re: Wilts & Berks Canal - merged posts, ongoing developments and discussion 3 Sep 2025
-Re: Dean Forest Railway - merged topics, ongoing discussion 2 Sep 2025
-Re: Steam engine 34046 'Braunton' - merged posts 2 Sep 2025
-Re: LSWR carriage found inside house15 Sep 2025
-Re: Camping coaches 6 Sep 2025
-Re: Severn Valley Railway - heritage line, Worcestershire and Shropshire - merged posts18 Sep 2025
-Re: Lynton and Barnstaple Railway - heritage line, plans for expansion (merged posts)28 Sep 2025
Media about railways, and other means of transportPhotographers asked to tell story of rail travel29 Sep 2025
-Royal Mail locomotive stamps18 Sep 2025
-Britain’s 20 biggest rail operators, ranked from worst to best15 Sep 2025
-Colne Valley Viaduct - Britain's longest railway bridge completed11 Sep 2025
-A fear of driving / on the rise 7 Sep 2025
Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with themCity of London to examine tougher cycling fines21 Sep 2025
-Promoting cycling to less frequent users10 Sep 2025
The Wider Picture in the United KingdomBasingstoke Canal dries up during drought - ongoing issue and discussion 5 Sep 2025
-Re: Weather updates from across the UK, with implications for infrastructure - ongoing discussion, 2025 1 Sep 2025
-Scarborough Station - facilities, improvements and events30 Sep 2025
-People living near River Frome worried about repeat of autumn floods in 202530 Sep 2025
-Woman sought over Paddington station sex assault on teenager - 31 August 202530 Sep 2025
-Stockport: How rail closure for £20m works will affect travel - October 202529 Sep 2025
-'I'm heartbroken kids racially abused me on train' 25 Sep 2025
-UK comparison / "How do buses and trains keep running in Scandinavia"21 Sep 2025
-Man dies after falling from hot air balloon - West Sussex, 19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025
-Train with catering from Bradford on Avon today18 Sep 2025
-Ravensthorpe railway station to close in December 2025 for three-year rebuild16 Sep 2025
-Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness train hits van on level crossing - 13 Sep 202515 Sep 2025
-'Huge amount' of silt keeps Gloucester Lock shut after summer dry weather - 202513 Sep 2025
-Murder accused boy appears in court after stabbing at Seaford station, 10 Sep 2512 Sep 2025
-OpenRailwayMap10 Sep 2025
-Westbury White Horse - historic Wiltshire landmark 9 Sep 2025
-Surrey rail closures prompt travel warning for passengers - 25 Oct to 2 Nov 2025 7 Sep 2025
-When is the emergency alert test on mobile phones and can you opt out? 7 Sep 2025
-Grand Union Canal dries up during drought - ongoing issue and discussion 3 Sep 2025
-LNER: further fare simplification 3 Sep 2025
-Closure - Bexley, permanent from Saturday 6th September 2025 1 Sep 2025
-Camilla fought off attacker with shoe as teenager, book says - Paddington train 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Train delayed 'due to people trying to hang flags' - Market Harborough, Aug 2025 1 Sep 2025
-Re: Three killed in Isle of Wight helicopter crash during flying lesson: 25 Aug 2025 7 Sep 2025
-Re: Cumbrian Coast Line: Bransty Tunnel woes at Whitehaven, until Easter 202618 Sep 2025
-Re: MPower Kernow CIC St Blazey28 Sep 2025
-Re: East Midlands Railways - Class 810 Aurora fleet entering service (merged posts)26 Sep 2025
-Re: Preventing suicide on the railways14 Sep 2025
-Re: ITV: ten years of the Scottish Borders Railway 5 Sep 2025
-Re: HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) - Government proposals, alternative routes, discussion 9 Sep 2025
The Wider Picture OverseasTimetables, booking procedure and travelling - Indian style19 Sep 2025
-16 dead after historic funicular railway derails in Lisbon - 3 September 2025 3 Sep 2025
-Re: Responsible travel - the countries that are "doing better" than the UK 2 Sep 2025
-Re: Felletin - last throws? ... lessons??16 Sep 2025
-Re: Eurostar - merged posts, ongoing discussion topic26 Sep 2025
-Re: Europe's Ghostliest Station 5 Sep 2025
Railway History and related topicsHow Oliver Bulleid, a maverick engineer, helped shape modern rail28 Sep 2025
-Principal railways of England and Wales, 189826 Sep 2025
-Oldest purpose built railway pub identified 25 Sep 2025
-The old Swansea railway that was the world's first passenger line - March 180721 Sep 2025
-Farm railway turns 100 but faces uncertain future / Dodding's Farm 3 Sep 2025
-Re: Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway - merged topics 6 Sep 2025
-Re: 'Railway 200' events and commemorations 202528 Sep 2025
-Re: Isle of Wight - first closures 70 years ago20 Sep 2025
-Re: On this day - 19th September 1997 - Southall Rail Accident19 Sep 2025
-St Blazey Turntable in danger... again 5 Sep 2025
 
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