The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom

Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 14:15 15 Jan 2025

- Arrests made over fatal stabbing of 14-year-old on London bus

Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]

[whole diary]

18/01/25 - TLRS AGM, Taunton
24/01/25 - Westbury Station reopens
24/01/25 - LTP4 Wilts / Consultation end
24/01/25 - Bristol Rail Campaign AGM 2025

On this day
15th Jan (2015)

RoSCo Eversholt changes hands (link)

• • • • • • Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street

January 15, 2025, 14:34:27

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Most recently liked subjects
[98] England's Best Loved Lost Railway: The Somerset & Dorset Joint...
[81] Eastern Airways to start Southend - Newquay service
[67] Return of the BRUTE?
[34] Rail Replacement bus - OK, but I prefer the train.
[34] Ferries across waterways - whether by vehicle, foot or both (m...
[30] The Cheddar Valley Lost Railway - the 'Strawberry Line' from Y...

News: the Great Western Coffee Shop ... keeping you up to date with travel around the South West

This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules (email link to report). Forum hosted by Well House Consultants

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page

Subject	Started by	Replies	Views	Last post
Network Rail Test Train Diagrams and Schedules	PhilWakely	3	5167	July 31, 2015, 14:01:23 by Rapidash
RAIB Investigation: Electrical arcing and fire, Tyne & Wear Metro 11/08/2014	JayMac	2	3407	July 30, 2015, 11:54:49 by Chris from Nailsea
Catering staff - Southern	grahame	12	8480	July 23, 2015, 21:37:53 by Surrey 455
Forth rail bridge gains world heritage site status	BerkshireBugsy	10	7694	July 15, 2015, 09:26:43 by bobm
BBC News: Boy dies after climbing on train	BerkshireBugsy	2	3611	July 12, 2015, 13:10:37 by BerkshireBugsy
Severe electric shock to train driver near Sutton Weaver, Cheshire - 23 Sep 2014	Chris from Nailsea	3	4003	June 26, 2015, 01:33:36 by Chris from Nailsea
Real horse power playing polo on Cornwall's golden beaches	Chris from Nailsea	4	4155	June 25, 2015, 11:07:31 by ChrisB
Warning signs for low out of use railway bridges	BerkshireBugsy	5	4601	June 22, 2015, 16:53:53 by Tim
DB Schenker to cut 234 rail freight jobs	Chris from Nailsea	0	2101	June 22, 2015, 16:19:27 by Chris from Nailsea
Strangely located posters	LiskeardRich	6	4748	June 19, 2015, 23:51:42 by Oxman
Many over-65s in England 'rarely use public transport'	NickF	8	5504	June 19, 2015, 22:16:24 by Worcester_Passenger
Network Rail industrial action 2015. « 1 2 ... 8 9 »	TaplowGreen	131	81033	June 06, 2015, 16:40:17 by TaplowGreen
Shortlist for East Anglia franchise announced « 1 2 »	JayMac	15	10122	June 06, 2015, 11:04:37 by Surrey 455
Direct train to Europe « 1 2 »	grahame	21	12866	June 01, 2015, 20:41:26 by devon_metro
UK's worst rail crash at Quintinshill remembered by relatives of victims and survivors	Chris from Nailsea	8	8628	May 21, 2015, 18:44:06 by JayMac
Provision of a bottle of water to a mother in need	chrisr_75	12	7244	May 16, 2015, 20:56:16 by ChrisB
Woman killed after sitting on rail track in Staffordshire - 22 January 2015	Chris from Nailsea	0	2957	May 10, 2015, 21:24:56 by Chris from Nailsea
Today's MAJOR failure (30/04/15) « 1 2 3 »	ChrisB	38	21999	May 02, 2015, 14:17:39 by Worcester_Passenger
Rail signal upgrade 'could be hacked to cause crashes « 1 2 »	PhilWakely	15	9880	April 29, 2015, 12:57:36 by trainer
Noise made by passing trains « 1 2 »	grahame	17	10467	April 18, 2015, 08:51:11 by eightf48544