Recent New Threads
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| At last, some good news this year? Further direct services to the continent. | 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 ^ |
| Last 7 days | |
| 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 ^ |
| Up to a month ago | |
| Tickets Please ! | v or ^ |
| Elizabeth Line Industrial Action - 2025 | v or ^ |
| First Bus and passenger space heating | v or ^ |
| Incident at Trowbridge station | 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 ^ |
| report - recommendation to improve West of England line | v or ^ |
| Why England’s public transport system could look very different very quickly | v or ^ |
| Man who died on Tube was run over by four trains - 26 Dec 2023 | v or ^ |
| Maybe not this year, but you have to start somewhere | v or ^ |
| Heart of Wessex - strategic mayoral authority proposed | v or ^ |
| Yellow card system for first offence unticketed passengers/ | v or ^ |
| Light Railway and Tram associations | v or ^ |
| Train departed 3 minutes earlier than scheduled | v or ^ |
| England's Best Loved Lost Railway: The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway | v or ^ |
| The Cheddar Valley Lost Railway - the 'Strawberry Line' from Yatton | v or ^ |
| Man admits using walking stick to kill pensioner - Harold Wood station, Feb 2024 | v or ^ |
| Eastern Airways to start Southend - Newquay service | v or ^ |
| Changing content of the domain home page as the new Coffee Shop settles in | v or ^ |
| The Coffee Shop, online safety and the Online Safety Act | v or ^ |
| Why there's no Bristol Central Station | v or ^ |
| GWR free travel card - Scam? | v or ^ |
| The Community Rail Network / Rail awards 2025 | v or ^ |
| Sunday Times Travel supplement - 14 page rail special | v or ^ |
| Many hurt in tram collision, Strasbourg - 11 January 2025 | v or ^ |
| The User Group onion | v or ^ |
| one pound flat rate bus fares in Devon and Torbay area. | v or ^ |
| Millions of train tickets to be discounted next week | v or ^ |
| Westminster Hall debate : Railway services to South West | v or ^ |
| Mick Lynch announces retirement as head of RMT | v or ^ |
| Build it and they will come. SAY you have built it and they will come anyway! | v or ^ |
| Railcard Prices going up | v or ^ |
| Bristol Rail Campaign AGM 2025 | v or ^ |
| Views sought : how train companies give assistance to disabled passengers | v or ^ |
| Changing trains just got cheaper…on Northern | v or ^ |
| Mk 5s moved to Wolverton ahead of assessment for Chiltern use | v or ^ |
| Fatal Oxfordshire train crash remembered 150 years on | v or ^ |
| Coastal walks - station to station | v or ^ |
| Engineering works - shows what they CAN do! | v or ^ |
| Talk, 8.1.25 ENGINEERING RESTORATION & OPERATION HERITAGE GWR STEAM | v or ^ |
| Bath to Bridgnorth and back 4/1/25 | v or ^ |
| Greatest Gathering - 1st to 3rd August 2025 | v or ^ |
| Melksham Transport User Group for 2025 | v or ^ |
| 2025 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury | v or ^ |
| Old Oak Common Christmas Work | v or ^ |
| GWR Train Crew Weymouth | v or ^ |
| Update on collapsed Bridgewater Canal | v or ^ |
| Dilton Marsh - spring 2025 timetable | v or ^ |
| Eurostar flash sale - January 2025 | v or ^ |
| Newquay train, St Blazey photo | v or ^ |
| Birthday trip, Melksham to Penzance - 28th January 2025 | v or ^ |
| Rail Replacement bus - OK, but I prefer the train. | v or ^ |
| Outstanding server / web site issues | v or ^ |
| The National Rail journey planner - 2025 edition | v or ^ |
| Preserved Railway 2024: Narrow Gauge | v or ^ |
| A Beginner's Guide to the Great Western "Coffee Shop" Passenger forum | v or ^ |
| North Cotswold line delays and cancellations - 2025 | v or ^ |
| The Coffee Shop in 2024 - review | v or ^ |
