13:18 Hereford to London Paddington due 16:24 will be started from Worcester Shrub Hill.
It will no longer call at Hereford, Ledbury, Colwall, Great Malvern, Malvern Link and Worcester Foregate Street.
It will be delayed at Worcester Shrub Hill.
This is due to a member of on-train staff being taken ill.

14:53 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street due 17:04 will no longer call at Hanborough, Charlbury, Kingham, Moreton-In-Marsh and Honeybourne.
It has been delayed at London Paddington and is now 17 minutes late.
This is due to train crew being delayed.

I did a rail interview for West Wilts Radio on 13th January 2026. A wonderful opportunity, over some 20 minutes, introduce the listeners to:
   * what has been achieved,
   * where challenges remain,
   * why some things are as they are, and
   * to look forward for a year and perhaps for a decade.
And a chance to answer some of those questions that you may have wondered about, or never thought to ask.

There is (or was) a narrowboat hire fleet called Viking Afloat. On more than one occasion we saw their distinctive yellow craft being crewed by holidaymakers of clearly Scandinavian origin. I have no difficulty at all believing your account...

Yeah ... short term cancellations between Liskeard and Looe ... nothing has run there yet this year, and indeed nothing was expected today of for at least another week.   However, no-one actually entered the medium term cancellations into JourneyCheck feeds, so it's come up as a train planning type "oopsie" this morning.

This is a true story. On one of our family holidays, courtesy of a friend who owned a narrowboat on the Kennet & Avon Canal, we moored somewhere and at about 9:30am went to stroll into the village for fresh bread and milk.  There on the towpath in front of us, next to his narrowboat, was the most inebriated Swede I have ever seen - trying to drive his boat's anchor into the towpath. Image not available to guests

Hmmm. To be effective, someone will need to be watching every stream in real time.

Otherwise 99% of it is never going to be watched, so a tad excessive to do it 'just in case'.
I don't know how you control the GDPR issue to storage limitations or your privacy option....

On balance, I'm against I think.

Transport Minister Lilian Greenwood has told MPs she is open to including mandatory CCTV in new national guidelines for taxis.

The government's review of taxi licensing in England follows Baroness Casey's report on grooming gangs, which identified taxis being used by offenders across the country and recommended tougher rules.

At the moment, taxi drivers can buy a private hire vehicle licence from one council but work as far away as they like, taking advantage of lower standards, cheaper licences, and a lack of enforcement.

This allows them to get around tough rules aimed at protecting children, such as Rotherham's gold standard licensing scheme, which includes CCTV in cabs.

Speaking to the Commons Transport Committee, Greenwood said she did not want to "demonise the trade" but MPs could not be "complacent" about the urgent need to strengthen the law.

It's appeared again. As a symbol, there's something cruel and totalitarian about it.

Mark

It certainly feels like a slow (re)start of the class.  And January and February being the slow time of year, a 2 coach 150 on train from Penzance or 2 St Ives will have adequate capacity whereas come Easter, if the weather in nice, 2x158 or an IET or an HST would have been needed. 

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K60141/2026-01-16/detailed

Late start. Let's hope they are in condition for passenger service. Got the weekend to fix them. Yesterday 175001 ran a training run but was replaced by a 150 for the 1340 Plymouth- Penzance and back. Not one of the other three refurbished units at Laira has run in passenger service AFAIK.

Bit strange this announcement.   Places have been available to book on the official website since before Christmas.   Also the Swanage and Mid Hants heritage lines.

Thousands of rail workers are to be made redundant as part of Labour's plan to nationalise the railways.

Network Rail is making cuts to its workforce as it faces a budget shortfall potentially as high as £1.8bn, insiders said.

An estimated 2,000 employees out of the organisation's total headcount of 41,000 could be laid off in the coming months.

Just buying my ticket for tomorrow morning's Melksham-Bristol commute, and spotted that what is usually the 06:29 Melksham-Trowbridge is scheduled for 06:31 (it was 06:29 on Monday). Anyone know why?

One Uy Hoang has captured, for Google Streetview, a glimpse of actual tangible HS2 phase 2a embankment - from the towpath of the Staffs and Worcs Canal.

Mark

https://tinyurl.com/3vje36vw

Could a class 101 unit be seen at the same time as class 195?