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14/01/25 - Rail Sale starts
24/01/25 - Westbury Station reopens
24/01/25 - LTP4 Wilts / Consultation end
24/01/25 - Bristol Rail Campaign AGM 2025

On this day
12th Jan (2009)

A quiet day in previous years (link)

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MKIII coaches. Convert spare Buffets to Trailer Standards? « 1 2 »	JayMac	26	12220	October 04, 2010, 11:31:35 by The SprinterMeister
Staffing on Saturday nights	Mookiemoo	9	3328	September 26, 2010, 21:52:43 by Chris from Nailsea
Some FGW Trains may be more crowded than normal until further notice... « 1 2 3 »	Ollie	35	12141	September 24, 2010, 11:46:13 by ChrisB
A couple of interesting books	James Vertigan	0	1287	September 19, 2010, 23:20:34 by James Vertigan
Is it a first?	Mookiemoo	10	3749	September 18, 2010, 17:09:30 by Ollie
2011 NR timetable data	paul7575	4	2548	September 07, 2010, 17:28:35 by paul7575
Noisy trains	Mookiemoo	0	1205	September 03, 2010, 22:36:53 by Mookiemoo
Search for cut-price InterCity 125 upgrade (Financial Times 30/08/2010) « 1 2 »	JayMac	26	9113	September 02, 2010, 18:49:46 by JayMac
Just a couple of 'line incidents' causing problems today ;-) (28 August 2010)	Chris from Nailsea	3	2235	August 30, 2010, 14:32:34 by SDS
So this broken down freight train between Reading and Didcot........	Mookiemoo	9	3992	August 28, 2010, 11:25:24 by Electric train
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Euro directive could have 'disastrous' impact on rail	woody	12	4210	August 27, 2010, 13:59:37 by hornbeam
Signalling the future of the railways (Oxford Mail 23/08/2010)	JayMac	12	4039	August 26, 2010, 10:04:28 by Tim
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New book about the Great Western Railway (plug)	andrewr	1	2181	August 25, 2010, 07:49:27 by grahame
'Staycations' boost branch lines Beeching wanted to cut (Telegraph 25/07/2010)	JayMac	14	7087	August 13, 2010, 19:39:44 by 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01