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| Christmas and New Year holidays 2025/26 on the Coffee Shop | v or ^ |
| Settle Carlisle Railway - developments, events and incidents: ongoing discussion | v or ^ |
| Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway - Caernarfon | v or ^ |
| West Wiltshire Rail User Group AGM 2026, and spring meeting | v or ^ |
| Melksham Transport User Group - meetings for 2026 | v or ^ |
| New Towns - suitable stations? - AQ21/2025 | v or ^ |
| Tributes paid to 16-year-old after Loughton Underground Station incident | v or ^ |
| The Two Ronnies, The Little Trains of Wales | v or ^ |
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| MOVED: Gone to the dogs? A look at greyhound racing's future - June 2025 | v or ^ |
| In and around Cardiff - capital of Wales since 20 December 1955 | v or ^ |
| New year - day out by train and bus to Wells, Glastonbury or Street | v or ^ |
| Naming of gritter lorries | v or ^ |
| Contactless - not always the cheapest | v or ^ |
| Walking between stations - AQ20 | v or ^ |
| Bristol Rail Campaign (FoSBR) AGM | v or ^ |
| Bus and train timetables for Melksham to May 2026 | v or ^ |
| 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? | v or ^ |
| Information - What's Going On? | v or ^ |
| MOVED: King Charles pours 'perfect pint' at new Guinness brewery in London - Dec 2025 | v or ^ |
| King Charles pours 'perfect pint' at new Guinness brewery in London - Dec 2025 | v or ^ |
| “Neither Place Is Worth Visiting”: Government Defence ... project cancellation | v or ^ |
| Comparing my local (GWR run) station with stations in other regions | v or ^ |
| What is happening at Dilton Marsh? Key service reduction! | v or ^ |
| Burst water main shuts Rye House railway station for two days - Dec 2025 | v or ^ |
| You're in the wrong place | v or ^ |
| OOO - Odd One Out - which, and why? AQ18/25 | v or ^ |
| Temple Meads station approach road | v or ^ |
| MOVED: London Bridge Bufferstop collision 13 December 2024 - report | v or ^ |
| Trip Report: 13-15/12/25 European Rugby In Paris | v or ^ |
| Malaysia: 12/12/25 Electric Trains Finally Reach Johor Bahru | v or ^ |
| New West Yorkshire bus fleet criticised over single-door access | v or ^ |
| AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? | v or ^ |
| M20 in Kent: Operation Brock could be scaled back by government | v or ^ |
| Boston Tea Party - 16th December 1773 | v or ^ |
| Train unreliability forces college to reduce timetables and fuels deprivation | v or ^ |
| TfW: the fares structure for bus travel | v or ^ |
| Liverpool to Carmarthen - help needed............. | v or ^ |
| Flooding - general topic | v or ^ |
| Should I add kisses to my posts to make me more likeable?? xx | v or ^ |
| New timetables - but from where to where? AQ25 - 15th | v or ^ |
| Disruption likely after weather warning issued for Devon & Cornwall, Dec 2025 | v or ^ |
| Up to a month ago | |
| Making sure the information you might need is easily available | v or ^ |
| Disused rail viaduct over the Spey at Garmouth fails | v or ^ |
| 14.12.2025 Where is this? Guest question | v or ^ |
| Eddystone | v or ^ |
| "Rails into Ghost Town" | v or ^ |
| 05:40 Edinburgh to Kings Cross cab ride in real time | v or ^ |
| Candidate for redoubling? AQ 13.12.2025 | v or ^ |
| Bollards ... | v or ^ |
| Interlude at Warminster | v or ^ |
| (Duke of ?) Mayflower | v or ^ |
| Marazion Flooding | v or ^ |
| Bath Spa - call for electrification. | v or ^ |
| Scotty quiz - 12th December 2025 | v or ^ |
| OTD - 12 December 1988 Clapham Junction rail crash | v or ^ |
| How ‘The Flying Banana’ became a British railway icon | v or ^ |
| Capital Quiz - 11th December 2025 | v or ^ |
| Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock - OTD 11 Dec (1620) | v or ^ |
| Active travel: Extra £81m to boost walking and cycling routes | v or ^ |
| Warning as drivers seen queuing on level crossing near Willington | v or ^ |
| Social media check before you travel? | v or ^ |
| Chance meeting on a train | v or ^ |
| North Somerset free bus route to North Bristol | v or ^ |
| AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent | v or ^ |
| First Group win concession to operate London Overground | v or ^ |
| Luxury night bus company redefining overland travel across Europe | v or ^ |
| Newquay trains cancelled because of flooding 9 December 2025 | v or ^ |
| AQ9 - What has changed? | v or ^ |
| SWR improvements under GBR | v or ^ |
| R A Cooke Track Layout Diagrams | v or ^ |
| Listening to the customers and potential customers | v or ^ |
| Only Connect - Lion Wall - AQ 8.12.2025 | v or ^ |
| Solent - Banana containers cause shipping disruption, Dec 2025 | v or ^ |
| AQ - Sometimes there are no trains ... 7.12.2025 | v or ^ |
| Comedian Dom Joly rants about poor rail service between Cheltenham and London | v or ^ |
| Greenwich foot tunnel to get 'full regeneration' | v or ^ |
| Tree blocking line at Avoncliff | v or ^ |
| Millions could be spent on Wiltshire bus shelter repairs | v or ^ |
| Elizabeth Line - most used National Rail stations | v or ^ |
| Station Search | v or ^ |
| Three year settlement for Local Transport Authorities for buses | v or ^ |
| Cheltenham Road reopens after lorry got stuck under Honeybourne Railway Bridge | v or ^ |
| Crosscountry and TfW Christmas restrictions 2025 | v or ^ |
| Oswestry Cambrian Railway building restoration wins national award | v or ^ |
| AQ - 5.12.25 - A year in the life | v or ^ |
| Ferry officer jailed over Jersey fatal fishing boat crash - December, 2022 | v or ^ |
| Plane crashed at Staverton in Gloucestershire after 3D-printed part collapsed | v or ^ |
| Gales to cause Friday Isle of Man ferry passenger disruption - December 2025 | v or ^ |
| Estimates of station usage 2024-2025 - North Cotswolds line | v or ^ |
| Looking to reopen the spur to Falmouth docks | v or ^ |
| Two Swindon Borough Council-owned vans clamped in £138,000 permit mix-up | v or ^ |
| with a Melksham bias - Office of Road and Rail - station use stats 2024/5 | v or ^ |
| ORR station usage data | v or ^ |
| John Ingram - chair of WWRUG, 2008-2010, RIP | v or ^ |
| The Challenge of Public Transport | v or ^ |
| Passengers locked inside Hartlepool station | v or ^ |
| Coffeeshop Map 4-12-25 | v or ^ |
| AQ - Which is next in the sequence? | v or ^ |
| South Western Railway train farewell tour sold out in just 15 seconds - Dec 2025 | v or ^ |
| Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge - Lancashire, Dec 2025 | v or ^ |
| Naming - appropriate? | v or ^ |
| Lengthy train, 03/12/2025 | v or ^ |
| Hull bus ticket discount for city travel over Christmas 2025 | v or ^ |
| Traffic delays in Bristol as bus gets stuck on tight bend - December 2025 | v or ^ |
| 'Beetle and Wedge Boathouse' at Moulsford, on the River Thames | v or ^ |
| Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 | v or ^ |
| AI videos simulating railway accidents | v or ^ |
| Suffolk MP's call for Essex station platform lifts at Marks Tey turned down | v or ^ |
| MP bemused by lack of Ely North rail junction upgrade | v or ^ |
| A rare bird indeed !! | v or ^ |
| Failed Train at Bruton 2 Dec 2025 | v or ^ |
| Engineering changes - 8th to 14th December 2025 | v or ^ |
| Advent Quiz - 2nd December 2025 | v or ^ |
| That Flanders and Swann song... | v or ^ |
| Rail Usage figures by station - due out 4.12.2025 | v or ^ |
| LNER passengers injured as speeding train 'lurched' - 26 September 2025 | v or ^ |
| 04:50 Fratton - Bristol Temple Meads cancelled | v or ^ |
| Portsmouth & Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour - closed, 1.12.2025 | v or ^ |
| Coffee Shop / Advent Quiz 2025. Introduction and first day questions | v or ^ |
| 'We want Tramtown to preserve Blackpool's history' | v or ^ |
| Police probe death of woman at Preston train station - 29 November 2025 | v or ^ |
| ScotRail - which trains will be operating over Christmas and New Year? | v or ^ |
| Longer rail journeys warning due to 'vital' work in Cornwall - December 2025 | v or ^ |
| Tributes to boy, 14, who died after being hit by train - Nottinghamshire | v or ^ |
| Car driver crashes into caravan after drinking on train - Newark, 2 May 2024 | v or ^ |
| 07:00 Manchester - Euston | v or ^ |
| Stranraer-Ayr rail line closes for £1m upgrade to cut flood risks | v or ^ |
| wide spread air plane disruption forecast weekend 29/30 november | v or ^ |
| Floods, power cuts and travel risk amid heavy rain warning for Wales | v or ^ |
| Bus routes costing more than £100 a passenger are to be axed in 2026 | v or ^ |
| Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2026 | v or ^ |
| Cheltenham Road Viaduct - scope for possible redoubling (split topic, ongoing discussion) | v or ^ |
| Full and standing 27 November 2025 | v or ^ |
| Belgium public transport issues Wednesday 26 November | v or ^ |
| The Inspiration Train at the West Somerset Railway, November 2025 | v or ^ |
| Man dies after being hit by car on walk to station - Maghull, 22 October 2025 | v or ^ |
| Shrewsbury train station bus stop suspended over safety concerns | v or ^ |
| Historic Ayleston Old Mill canal bridge in Leicester to close for repairs | v or ^ |
| Omagh rail tragedy victims remembered 75 years on | v or ^ |
| Winterstoke railway bridge, Weston super mare closed for two years. | v or ^ |
| Caersws railway bridge that keeps being driven into 'has cost taxpayers £50k' | v or ^ |
| Girl, 13, released after murder arrest as woman who died named - November 2025 | v or ^ |
| Donations sought to set up Nottingham late night Safe Bus | v or ^ |
| The dog bus whose pawsengers raise a smile in the community | v or ^ |
| North York Moors - Moorsbus success could see service return in 2026 | v or ^ |
| On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 | v or ^ |
| Paignton faces big changes as council unveils 'vision' - November 2025 | v or ^ |
| Regulated rail fares frozen in England until March 2027 | v or ^ |
| First murder on the railways - 1864 | v or ^ |
| Interrail Black Friday Sale - 25/11 to 17/12/2025 (for use in 2026) | v or ^ |
| GWR Black Friday sale | v or ^ |
| Working on the server today | v or ^ |
| York train driver commended for saving passenger's life at Redcar station | v or ^ |
| Meeting over 'what went wrong' with tree felling along Midland Mainline - 5/2025 | v or ^ |
| First Bus pulling out of Cornwall, 14.2.2026 | v or ^ |
| Uber train tickets promotion - % reduction | v or ^ |
| Gritting lorry overturns on Dartmoor as icy night expected - 20 November 2025 | v or ^ |
| Deleting posts from the Coffee Shop forum, if appropriate | v or ^ |
| Next to Safety, Punctual Running of Trains is Most Important | v or ^ |
| Travelling to see an old train - why not travel there on a current train? | v or ^ |
| Dilton Marsh - request stop and status | v or ^ |
| Fuel for rail: taxation: electricity versus diesel | v or ^ |
| Tiverton parkway parking | v or ^ |
| Track defect at Plymouth - November 2025 | v or ^ |
| Show unread posts since last visit - MARK ALL MESSAGES AS READ | v or ^ |
| Fallen Tree delay - 19/11/25 | v or ^ |
| Split ticket - what are the rules if a stop at the split point is withdrawn? | v or ^ |
| Closure proposal - five intermediate stations on Marston Vale line | v or ^ |
| Advertising of misleading minimum pricing which is scarcely available | v or ^ |
| Bristol car park nightmare | v or ^ |
| Inspiration Train at Paddington from 8th to 13th December 2025 | v or ^ |











