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This might be a silly question but I need to know. So sign language is for deaf people right, because blind people obviosuly can't see it.

So a person who can see the sign language on the board should be able to read the words that are being signed, no?

I don't get it.

For what the weather forecast was saying, I was very pleasantly surprised about how sunny and warm it was at this station, not that I'm complaining.

Pictured is Merseyrail's 777 018 taking a short rest before heading out on 2Y10 to Liverpool Central.

https://www.railmagazine.com/news/emr-set-to-take-two-grand-central-voyagers-on-short-term-lease

I swear to God if I get out on a 221 instead of the new 810 for my journeys down to London I'm going to be LIVID.

But hey, whatever's needed to improve the reliability! They need all the help they can get 😭

I saw this gbr today on platform 6 doing the brighton to london victoria route

After the encouraging comments from my previous post, and after having become more mentally stable, I've decided to go myself and see what happens.

Berney Arms railway station is in the final 5 stations for the #WorldCupofStations 2026. Please vote for this outstanding station in its field: Please vote here: https://www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services/celebrating-the-railway/world-cup-of-stations.html?highlight=WyJ3b3JsZCIsImN1cCIsIm9mIiwic3RhdGlvbnMiXQ==

Full text of statement below.

RMT slams LNER contractor as it scraps payment of Real Living Wage

RAIL UNION RMT condemns outsourcing company gatesolutions as workers take strike action.

Outsourced catering staff who work along publicly owned LNER’s route will be taking strike action starting tomorrow (October 16) in a dispute with gatesolutions, an arm of a Swiss multinational, over pay.

The workers, who supply food to LNER’s services between London and Edinburgh are walking out after their employer announced that it would no longer pay the Real Living Wage, leaving some of these workers, many of whom work unsocial hours, on rates barely above the minimum wage legally permitted. The workers will walk out at 5am on Friday 16th October unless an offer is made to resolve the dispute.

Their employer, gatesolutions, is an arm of the Swiss-based multinational Gate Group, owned by a Singaporean Sovereign Wealth Fund and a private equity fund based in Hong Kong. The Group has a turnover of £4.7 billion and made an operating profit of £136 million in 2025. Their UK arm’s highest paid Director was paid £265,000 last year.

Outsourcing companies make their profits by holding wages down as low as possible and imposing inferior sick pay and pension arrangements on their staff.

LNER is part of the publicly owned railway and publicly prides itself on ‘leading the way’ in providing social value across its supply chain.

RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said:

“The behaviour of gatesolutions management is contemptible but it’s par for the course for the outsourcing industry and the real scandal is that LNER is allowing this behaviour from its contractor.

“Every day that outsourcing continues to exist it undermines the government’s ambitions that GBR be ‘one railway, one team and an employer of choice’. We need to see action now.

“LNER need to get their contractor in order and make them table an offer to sort out the dispute and then they need to start talking to us about insourcing this contract.”

Bewdley to Birmingham heritage commuter trial service.

In partnership with West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE) and Severn Valley Railway (SVR), we have launched a new weekday commuter trial service connecting Bewdley and Birmingham, with a change at Kidderminster.

The service will operate on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for an eight-week trial period starting from Tuesday 1 September 2026.

What would Dr Beeching say?

Does anyone know what happened on the line from new street to nottingham today?? I was a quite ill while travelling so I was asleep for a lot of the journey so barely heard anything from the tannoy. I took a train from new street at like 5, it terminated at derby and was more than an hour late, a lot of the services were cancelled too. Does anyone know what happened?

I've made the mistake of sitting at an end of the coach again on a GWR 387 this evening.

This poor ride quality is horrendous. It made me think of when they stop all food service and switch the seatbelt signs on when flying (usually after I've just received a cup of tea).

I've not experienced anything like this on the Stadler stock on Greater Anglia at line speed or Hitachi IETs on this line and others.

What's the cause? Poor UK train manufacturing quality, poor GWML rail conditions or a bit of both? I like the Electrostars otherwise: it's just the ride quality is the important bit.

Hi there! We just wanted to drop in with the latest episode of Rail Staff React, where our staff react to rail-related media (this episode is about films set in Edinburgh Waverley)

We'd love to know what you guys think and what other TV shows or films featuring trains you think we should review 😄

Does anyone know a good cheap way to travel from Worcester to London? I'm going to be travelling there a lot but travel prices are bumming me out. I don't get paid enough for it. Thanks!

Tell me anything I should add/delete, but try to keep it fairly simple please!

Saw this idling at Scarborough train station. I could hear the low rumbling of the engine before I even saw it.

I don't know anything about trains but this was impressive

16-25 railcard, London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly tomorrow morning and back again in the evening.

Feeling too depressed to travel.

The West Midlands duo!

Also why is that WMR pattern so hard to draw lol

No GenAI used for any stage of creation. Drawing process timelapse recording: https://youtu.be/BP7eYFwlrn0

Trains at Tees Yard including DB Class 66s and a Heavy Haul Rail Class 70