BBC Keeping Britian's Railways On Track!

Episode 3 of the BBC series of Keeping Britian's Railway On Track is Now available on BBC iplayer.

More information Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01r1yy6/The_Railway_Keeping_Britain_on_Track_Standing_Room_Only/ (Available until 26th march 2013)

Keeping Britian's Railways on Track BBC 2

The Third episode of the BBC series of Britian's Railways, Keeping Britian's Railways On track will be aired tommorow. The episode will focus on the commuters on the Reading to London Paddington line and the rebuilding of Reading station.

More information Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/09/the-railway-keeping-britain-on-track.html

Major delays between Kings Cross and Peterborough.

Major delays between London Kings Cross and Peterborough due to overhead Power lines problem that is reported to be due to a East Coast 91 paragraph defect which has brought down a km of Overhead wires.

More information here and Delays are suspected to last until Friday/Saterday however 2 of the 4 lines are hoped to be open tomorrow : http://nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/sa0e93ea1771460baa8ea922b27383fd/details.html

BBC Keeping the railway on track

The second episode of the BBC series on keeping britian's railways on track. This episode is now available on the BBC iplayer (until 26 march 2013). The episode is focused on the Leeds area and summer madness.

More information here:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qyfq8/The_Railway_Keeping_Britain_on_Track_Summer_Madness/

The railways BBC 2 EP 2

The second episode of The Railways- Keeping Britian on track. Today's  episode which is on BBC 2 at 9pm is all about summer madness in and around the Leeds area.

More information here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qyfq8

91007 Bond livery

The 91 owned by East Coast has gained a James bond vinyl

A picture of the new livery is bellow:

Major landslip between Doncaster and Scunthorpe

There has been a major landslip between Doncaster and Scunthorpe which network rail says will close the line for about 8 weeks. A replacement bus service is running and will continue to until the track stops moving.

More information here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-21441070

91007 vinyl Skyfall livery

East Coast 91007 will gain some James bond skyfall vinyl's to honour the 50 years of James bond and the success of the film skyfall!

More information here: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79129

BBC keeping Britian on track Ep-1

The first episode of Keeping britian on track was aired yesterday! It was portraying how Kings Cross was before the opening of the new western concourse. The program gave a great view to how the staff at Kings cross cope with the every day running of a 21st century railway.

More information + the program( Until 26th march 2013) Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qqzb6/The_Railway_Keeping_Britain_on_Track_Kings_Cross/

Here is a Photograph the I have taken at Kings cross of the New concourse.

Crossrail 2

New plans unveiled today by a number of London Businesses detailing the proposals for Crossrail 2. This is suppose to be be a north to south railway however it would be from Cheshunt to Wimbledon area with possible extensions. This would mean a connection from South West Trains to Greater Anglia.

More information here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21333361

BBC Keeping Britain's railways on track!

The BBC's Keeping Britian's railways on track series has been given an air date and time, The first of the 6 part series will be aired on BBC 2 at 9pm on Tuesday 12th feb.

More information here:   http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/07/the-railway-keeping-britain-on-track.html

York Derailment

It hasn't been the best month for West coast railways when 47500 caught fire then on the 1st feb a A4 support coach derailed whilst on a steam railtour.

More information here: http://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/news/a4-support-coach-derails-at-york