Day trip to Weymouth - we won't get you home ...

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Sat, 16 August 19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00

16/08/25 19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Trowbridge, Melksham, Chippenham and Swindon.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Tens of passengers were stranded high on a Singapore railway track after their train suffered a power fault.

Video shows a group of passengers high up on a bridge, queuing up in a single-line, as they were forced to walk along the tall track back to a station.

SBS Transit, the train's operator, said all passengers safely disembarked and power is progressively being restored.

At least one person has died and several others have been injured after a train collided with a slurry tanker and derailed in southern Denmark, officials said.

Police said the crash happened between the towns of Tinglev and Kliplev in southern Jutland, and that officers were at the site.

Local outlet TV2 reported helicopters had been sent to the scene and quoted local rail officials as saying the train had "hit a slurry tanker" at a level crossing.

The country's rail operator DSB said that it had shut down services between Tinglev and Sønderborg near the German border.



Pictures from the scene showed a carriage lying on its side, with passengers stood around the train tracks.

Police said 95 passengers were on board, including pupils from a school in Sønderborg. Two of the injured were carried away by helicopter.

The national rail agency Banedanmark wrote on X that the collision happened at a railway crossing. According to local media, at least two of the train carriages were derailed.

'Moor could take centuries to recover from fire'


Fire crews have been fighting a blaze on the North York Moors since Monday evening

An area of moorland in North Yorkshire could take "many decades, centuries or even thousands of years" to recover from a large fire, experts have said.

Firefighters were first called to Langdale Moor near RAF Fylingdales on Monday evening, with a major incident declared on Wednesday.

On Friday evening, nine fire engines were on scene, according to North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (NYFRS), with the smell of smoke reaching as far south as York, 35 miles away.

Elspeth Ingleby, from the North York Moors National Park Authority (NYMNPA), said: "It's catastrophic for the habitats that are found in that location and the wildlife that currently lives there."

The area affected covers a site of special scientific interest, a special conservation area and a special protection area, the senior ecologist said. This included a "really, really highly designated site" for merlin, one of the smallest birds of prey in the UK.

Ms Ingleby said that as a ground-nesting species, merlin only bred within deeper heather beds, which have been protected in the area for at least 15 years. "It really is devastating and it will take probably 10 years or more for the heather to develop to that depth again to enable them to breed in the future."

Ms Ingleby said the wildfire could be undoing "thousands of years of peat and carbon storage", with heritage and history below the surface lost, as well as habitats above the ground. "It can take many decades, centuries and even thousands of years to really recover from that kind of impact."

Lynden Marquis, from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, said: "Quite a lot of the wildlife is really going to struggle to either escape the fire or deal with the consequences of what has happened to the habitat. Slow-moving animals, for instance field voles or lizards or snakes, are simply not going to be able to escape. They are going to, frankly, die in a terrible way."

Species of thrush which visit the UK during the autumn and winter would also be at risk, he said, because they normally feed on berries which grow in the area.

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On Tuesday, steam services were suspended on the nearby North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but the heritage organisation said on Wednesday it would aim to run steam trains "between Grosmont and Whitby due to the lower fire risk profile".

Trains between Grosmont and Pickering would continue to be hauled by diesel locomotives, to reduce the potential risk of further pressure on emergency services, it confirmed.


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20:12 Swindon to Westbury due 20:56
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12

22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a broken down train earlier today.

As an aside the 17:35 was never shown as cancelled so I am wondering if it was a guard that was missing and the plan was to run the 16:24 empty up to Swindon and pick up a guard there for the return.

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will be terminated at Swindon.
It will no longer call at Chippenham, Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, Dilton Marsh, Warminster and Salisbury.
This is due to overcrowding.

Last Updated:15/08/2025 18:34

Tonight's final talk in a series of Bridport Railway talks will take a slightly different  tone to previous nostalgic laments about its closure - Nigel Ewens will talk about his plan to rebuild the railway.

It would see the railway line between West Bay and Maiden Newton re-imagined as a narrow gauge line called the Bridport Community Railway and The Little Local Train, becoming a 'major' eco-tourism and heritage steam attraction.

New Forest resident Mr Ewens, director of Jurassic Coast Railways Ltd, and a regional expert on heritage routes in Dorset and southern England, says the project would give the local economy a boost and connect residents living in outlying villages.

Love to see any other members who make Imber next Saturday (16.8.2025) - I'll be catching the bus at 09:25 from home, change onto the 2, X2, 3A or 3C in Devizes and joining the 23A at one of the Lavingtons or Gore Cross Bus Station.

I have been a couple of time before and it is a worthwhile trip, but I fear it will be too hot for me tomorrow.

I really wish there was a better way of doing this.    I appreciate that the folks at GWR on the day are struggling for staff but 16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:06 will be cancelled in the early morning reads pretty darned definite, discourages passengers, and fuels the unreliability reputation this line has.

Questions - with stats like those on ontimetrains which is currently showing 11% cancellations over the last 12 weeks - how do trains that are cancelled but then re-instated show up?   Are they counted as cancelled, as running, or double counted?   Does anyone have (or fancy to guess) at what proportion of announced cancellations end up running after all?

American tourist’s £660 ‘extreme day trip’ to Ireland raises a lot of questions

No, we’ve never done that either.

However, a man called Kevin Droniak did just that. The American travel influencer went on a day trip to Ireland from New York, and filmed it all for Instagram.

In a video breaking down the cost of his trip, Kevin revealed he paid close to $900 to spend a few hours on the Emerald Isle — with time for just one activity.

11:52 London Paddington to Hereford due 14:44 will be terminated at Great Malvern.
It has been delayed at Honeybourne and is now 17 minutes late.
This is due to a safety inspection of the track.
Last Updated:15/08/2025 14:10

12:52 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street due 15:00 will be delayed at Honeybourne.
This is due to a safety inspection of the track.
Last Updated:15/08/2025 13:51

11:58 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 14:23 has been delayed at Charlbury and is now 18 minutes late.
This is due to a safety inspection of the track.
Last Updated:15/08/2025 13:53

15:18 Hereford to London Paddington due 18:29 will be started from Great Malvern.
It will no longer call at Hereford, Ledbury and Colwall.
This is due to a safety inspection of the track.
Last Updated:15/08/2025 14:10

It has been 150 years since Bristol got its first trams, but the network which once ran 200 vehicles across the city is now just a memory.

Sir George White, from Cotham, founded the Bristol Tramways Company in 1875 and it initially ran a horse-drawn service.

By 1895, the company was operating its first electric trams and the first part of the 20th Century was the network's heyday - so what happened?

09:52 London Paddington to Hereford due 12:46 was terminated at Worcester Shrub Hill.
This is due to a points failure.
Last Updated:15/08/2025 12:17

13:18 Hereford to London Paddington due 16:24 will be started from Worcester Shrub Hill.
This is due to a points failure.
Last Updated:15/08/2025 12:17