I had a quick look at 1X01's schedule on RTT and the passenger stations that stood out to me as having variations on the standard calling pattern are: Winslow, a nameless station between London Fenchurch Street and Barking, a nameless station between Elsenham and Bishops Stortford, Altnabreac, and Aberdare, presumably for various reasons.

I was reassured to see that Naughty Kid is due to receive their usual present.

 
2. Regua, Douro Valley, Portugal.

 

I'm happy with either / both - some of the locations within the countries are very difficult questions

 
Cancellations to services between Liskeard and Looe
Due to flooding between Liskeard and Looe the line is closed.
Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled. Disruption is expected until the end of the day on 04/01/26.

 

My quick glance through the Garry Keenor pfd it is very comprehensive, anyone reading it cover to cover will have a very good understanding of OLE railway electrification.     Although I will add the techniques, equipment and systems are evolving all the time

 
05:03 Penzance to London Paddington due 09:54
Facilities on the 05:03 Penzance to London Paddington due 09:54.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
Will be formed of 5 coaches instead of 10 from Plymouth. There are no reservations on this service

04:54 Plymouth to London Paddington due 08:35
Facilities on the 04:54 Plymouth to London Paddington due 08:35.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
Will be formed of 5 coaches instead of 10. There are no reservations on this service.

 
Sorry Grahame,  can you clarify please,  are you looking for the precise  location or just the country for each photo?

 

 
Tuesday December 23


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I was planning to do "Home and Away" pictures for the last two Advent days. However, the home clues are going to be easy and solved in a day, and I suspect the away ones many take longer that 24 hours, and of course we want to be tidied up and at the station by 23:55 on Christmas Eve in time for 1X01.

So here you are - I have been through the pictures on my camera and found no less than 30 with transport links, each from a different country.  Tomorrow there will be transport pictures from our own area.  I've called the quiz "Carlisle and Settle" because we're running in the opposite order to convention.

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It's not just GWR singing this song, but this will no doubt create extra pressure on already overcrowded services today.....

From National Rail


Disruption between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids, and between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction via Westbury until the end of the day


Service alteration details
Incident reported: Tuesday 23 December 2025 at 04:11


Last updated
Tuesday 23 December 2025 at 04:35

Train operators affected
South Western Railway
Route(s) affected
Between London Waterloo and Salisbury / Yeovil Junction / Exeter St Davids, and also between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction

Description
More trains than usual needing repairs at the same time that run between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids, and also between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction via Westbury means fewer services are able to run. Trains running between stations may be cancelled or revised.

Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Customer advice:

Due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time, some services between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids along with services between London Waterloo and Salisbury and onto Yeovil Junction via Westbury will either be cancelled, revised or formed of fewer carriages than normal.

South Western Railway are arranging for you to be able to use your ticket at no extra cost with other train operators. We will let you know when this is in place.

 

I think the distinction is that Christmas on the railways is planned chaos, whereas the rest of the year chaos happens randomly and at any time.

 
Twelve minutes of live footage, from one of the canal users on the scene, via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4DGXAPE_lA 

 
That's two events in the last week or so that involved transport infrastructure, and for both of them the visuals have suggested that they were a product of artificial intelligence - but they were all too real. Add that to the episode the other week in which Network Rail were spooked into thinking that a viaduct on the WCML had failed, when it had not, and then on top of that the power of A.I. to recreate someone's voice from a short sample of their speech and then use that for malicious purposes, this ... *waves hands at everything* ... is very difficult for many people.

Mark

 
May I post here, to the effect that I have probably only continued to quote such ongoing 'news' updates from the BBC, as they enable me to add yet more fresh images of ferries on this forum.

I love ferries. CfN.

 

Even by the usual standards of public investment, this has been a shocker. I would expect Turkey to be cheaper than elsewhere, as it is for dental implants and weight loss surgery.

The ride home from Cemre is going to be a plum job for the crew if they haven't retired by then. It's on the Asian side of the Sea of Marmara, close the the Bosphorus (translation: Ox-ford). Tourists pay good money for a cruise along that route.

 

Years ago, we took our kids (youngest now 40) the the Disney park outside Paris. We They had an excellent time on the many rides. One ride we didn't do was train to the place, but there was a station within the grounds with RER, local rail, and Eurostar services. If this is going to be bigger than that, someone should start drawing up timetables from all directions now.

 

Indeed. The remains of the Nynehead boat lift being one such piece.

 
For some information on the charity, at least initially, tasked with the ... erm, unenviable task of repairing the Llangollen Canal at Whitchurch, Shropshire, see https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us .

All the best of good luck and public support to them. CfN.

 
Agreed, Timmer. 

I know we have a possibly disproportionate number of current and previous 'canal users' among our admin and moderater team here on the Coffee Shop forum (myself included).

That's why I have been following this topic so closely.  This is a truly shocking event, on which is otherwise such a placid and relaxing environment.

Chris from Nailsea (via the Kennet and Avon Canal). 

 
That’s going to need government help. Mega money, mega repair job.

 
Cancellations to services between Westbury and Swindon

Due to a shortage of train crew between Westbury and Swindon fewer trains are able to run.
Train services running through these stations will be cancelled. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Customer Advice
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What has happened?
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Due to crew shortages GWR services at Melksham are cancelled today.

 

Called Aérotrain, if you want to look it up.

 

 
Oh, chaos would be ten times worse than it is.....

 
By chance, an aerial view of the site on the following link:


https://tinyurl.com/mtv3phyh

Very close to some lovely industrial archaeology - and also the rail over road bridge under which passed the driveway for Nynehead Court, though the architects/builders of the station perhaps will not be able to take advantage of that.

Mark

 
Not travelled extensively in mainland Europe, several years back, on a Paris to Toulouse train colloquially known at the 'POLT', a puzzling structure across the fields on the east side of the train that ran on, unbroken, for some tens of kilometres.

I couldn't work out what it was but of course it was the inverted 'T' section test track for the experimental french suspended-on-air passenger service, built in such a location that it could be of utility should the principle have been adopted as a transport system.

Mark

 
Of course there's also an informative Wiki entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracked_Hovercraft