Seems to be an "Emergency Services dealing with an Incident" between Tiverton & Taunton?

Railway lines between Cardiff and Swansea have reopened after a suspected wartime bomb was found.

Police were called after the device was discovered in Cheapside, Bridgend, at about 13:10 BST.

Officers were called to the same location in July after two "unexploded ordnance devices" were found at a building site.

GWR said there may be some minor delays but things were "getting back to normal".

Tremains Road and Cheapside were closed and Aldi, Asda, Brackla House and the building site evacuated.

Great Western Railway [GWR] originally said all stations between Cardiff Central and Bridgend may be cancelled or delayed because of the "wartime bomb".

A spokesman said lines reopened at about 16:15, but disruption was expected until 17:30.

South Wales Police said: "We are advising the public to avoid Brackla Street from Castle Bingo down to Wilko as well as Plumb Centre, Papa Johns and the Honda dealership."

Assaults on rail network more than triple in 10 years

The number of reported passenger assaults on the rail network has more than tripled in the past 10 years, according to official figures.

Between April 2024 and March 2025 found there were 10,231 reported assaults, up 7% on the year before, the Office of Rail and Road's annual report into health and safety found.

Ten years ago, there were 3,211 reported assaults, including harassment and common assaults.

"The safety of passengers and colleagues is our top priority," said Network Rail, Rail Delivery Group, and British Transport Police in a joint statement.

The increase coincides with a drive by British Transport Police to encourage the public to report a wide range of potential concerns on the rail network.

In 2022, it launched its 'Speak Up, Interrupt' campaign to encourage anyone who witnesses inappropriate sexual behaviour "to report incidents or safely intervene where they can".

Across the mainline rail network, harassment and common assault made up more than three quarters of the total assaults, and both of these categories saw an increase.

This trend was mirrored on the London Underground, where reported assaults reached their highest level since the data series began in 2004, up to just over 4,600.

Of those reported incidents, harassment and common assault counted for more than 80% of the total.

Reports dipped in 2019/20 because of the pandemic.

In the financial year from April 2024 in the report to March 2025, passengers took 1.7 billion journeys on the mainline railway.

In that period, 14 members of the public died on the mainline network and the London Underground (not counting suicides and trespass-related incidents).

There were also two deaths of workers on the rail network - one after being assaulted at a station, and the other resulting from a fall.

The number of suicides across the rail network were also at their highest level since 2002.

Across the mainline network, there were 368 suicides or suspected suicide attempts, resulting in 293 fatalities.

In its joint statement, Network Rail, the Rail Delivery Group and British Transport Police said they are "committed to reducing suicide risk through staff training programmes that have already enabled thousands of life-saving interventions".

They added they were also investing in technology like drones and remote monitoring tools.

Thursday's report found injuries to members of the public and workers have also been creeping back towards pre-pandemic highs.

Recording just over 11,472 injuries, this marked the fourth yearly increase in a row, but was still below level reported in 2019-20.

Of these injuries, the vast majority - almost 80% - were non-severe.

The ORR divides up the information it reports between the mainline rail network, non-mainline (which includes services through the Channel Tunnel, as well as trams and light rail), and the London Underground.

Grieving family's 'turmoil' over Ryanair policy


Sophie Taylor and her father, Peter Watkins, said they would not use the airline again

A family said they were shown a lack of empathy by Ryanair following a bereavement.

Sophie Taylor, from Chudleigh, Devon, purchased two tickets with the airline in October 2024 as part of a package holiday to Lanzarote for her mum Sharon Watkins' 60th birthday celebration.

Sadly, her mother died in August, two months before the holiday was due to take place. When Ms Taylor requested to change the name on her mother's ticket to her father's name, she was told she would have to pay a €115 (£100) name change fee.

Ryanair said it offered Ms Taylor the option to change the name on payment of the fee.

Ms Taylor bought the holiday through Love Holidays, and was due to fly from Bristol on 2 October with Jet2holidays and return a week later with Ryanair.

She said both Love Holidays and Jet2holidays were "absolutely amazing and waived the admin fees" for the name change, but Ryanair did not.

Love Holidays said in the event of a medical issue or bereavement, its policy is to waive its usual amendment fees. Jet2Holidays have been approached for comment.

She added she submitted an online complaint to Ryanair, which included photographs of the death certificate, but the airline responded with a "generic message" which said it was policy and the payment would be needed.

Ms Taylor said: "On top of losing the most important woman in my life, I didn't need to be told by a generic message that they wanted more money. My whole world came crashing down when I lost my mum, but to have that on top of everything else was just awful."

Her father Peter Watkins said his wife had suffered with neuroendocrine cancer for about 12 years before her death in August. "Lanzarote Puerto Del Carmen was a special place, somewhere we visited some 15 or 16 times, so the return for myself and Sophie was somewhat very mixed emotions", he said.

Mr Watkins travelled with his daughter to Lanzarote but decided not to cancel his wife's return seat to prevent it from being resold, instead booking a separate seat on the same flight for £52. He said: "You don't need that emotional turmoil, as you are already in emotional turmoil".

Ryanair said the package was sold by Love Holidays as a non-refundable promotional fare and recommended customers take out travel insurance. The airline added that as the original passenger had died, the family could apply for a full refund.

My own itinerary is rather simpler: 09:06 from Nailsea & Backwell to Taunton, arriving at 09:55, for £12.05 return with my senior railcard.  

it's change at Bristol for Taunton and I see that GWR are flagging up that the Cross Country train it connects into is potentially disrupted by Industial Action.

And the station in the picture is? Not Didcot. I think this has been identified before on the forum.