| Introductions and chat | Thoughts, tangents, personal big data. May I bore you for my enjoyment? | 24 Oct 2025 |
| - | De commissioning of an Electrification Engineer | 7 Oct 2025 |
| - | Guess where the cancellation is today! | 5 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Optional expenditure on travel and transport associated activities | 5 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Calling for an election - Melksham Town (South Ward) - 9 October 2025 | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Shadow and visions of the Pink Panther | 4 Oct 2025 |
| Fare's Fair | Cheap family fare offer - TO Plymouth, London, Cardiff | 30 Oct 2025 |
| - | "Dear Sarah" - asking the agony aunt | 28 Oct 2025 |
| - | How much ?? Man built up £30k of fines by dodging train fares | 27 Oct 2025 |
| - | Home to Taunton - options and fares from local stations | 23 Oct 2025 |
| - | students who claimed £140k delay repay jailed | 22 Oct 2025 |
| - | Is this a "Valid" ticket ?? | 22 Oct 2025 |
| - | Are grocery / supermarket prices as complex as train fares? | 22 Oct 2025 |
| - | Rail industry money-go-round. How does it work? | 15 Oct 2025 |
| - | Would I like to spend £80 for no benefit? Naughty ask!? | 10 Oct 2025 |
| - | Excessing a day return ticket to e.g. a super offpeak ticket | 5 Oct 2025 |
| - | Bring in Dutch-style rail fare system in Wales, says expert | 5 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Ticketless rail travel to be trialled, by using Apps instead | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Ancillary increases - Car Parking charges going up! | 24 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Prices at station shops | 20 Oct 2025 |
| Buses and other ways to travel | free bus rides on the Bristol number 36 bus route | 1 Nov 2025 |
| - | WECA freestanding passenger info screen seen in the wild at Bath Spa | 27 Oct 2025 |
| - | What is the difference between an island bus stop and a floating bus stop? | 26 Oct 2025 |
| - | Bath's Lansdown Park and Ride 19/10/25 | 19 Oct 2025 |
| - | Bristol bus driver caught smoking while driving | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Another drop in bus event for North Somerset | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Long planned cruise cancellation? | 12 Oct 2025 |
| - | Transport fares to school | 9 Oct 2025 |
| - | Manchester - Boy seriously injured in tram accident, 7 October 2025 | 7 Oct 2025 |
| - | Blind bus passenger left stranded over pass rules - Sheffield / Derbyshire, 2025 | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | Bristol's number 8 bus and 'The centre'. | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Bus Cornwall - and the environment for a cross Cornwall train service | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Caledonian MacBrayne ferries in Scotland | 6 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Cross-Solent ferries, between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight | 15 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Swindon bus station, bus services and new interchange - merged topics | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | No free bus passes for under 22s, says government | 31 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Isles of Scilly sea ferry and air services - merged posts | 12 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Buses and coaches bursting into flames - why are they apparently so combustible? | 7 Oct 2025 |
| - | Bath: use of Manvers Street bus stop | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Cambridge Guided Busway - ongoing discussion and updates | 6 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Clifton Suspension Bridge - toll road bridge in Bristol | 27 Oct 2025 |
| London to Reading | Volunteer police officer sacked for punching girl at Reading station - Apr 2024 | 12 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Twyford parking rules could change as Elizabeth Line route opens | 8 Oct 2025 |
| London to Kennet Valley | Re: Devizes 52-year wait for train station could end | 7 Oct 2025 |
| London to Didcot, Oxford and Banbury | Track fault at Didcot Parkway disrupts trains - 23 October 2025 | 23 Oct 2025 |
| - | Go-ahead given for Cowley Line to reopen by 2030 | 23 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Oxford station - facilities, improvements, parking, incidents and events - merged posts | 1 Oct 2025 |
| London to Swindon and Bristol | Re: Bath Down Goods Loop notice to loco crew. | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Paddington <-> Bristol: service updates and amendments - ongoing discussion | 13 Oct 2025 |
| London to South Wales | Trains delayed after suspected wartime bomb found at Bridgend - 23 October 2025 | 23 Oct 2025 |
| London to the West | Person hit by train, Taunton 24/10/2025 - Harry Basham, age 17, walking to work | 24 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Person hit by train Taunton to Weston Super Mare | 17 Oct 2025 |
| Thames Valley Branches | No service Maidenhead-Marlow 24/10/25 | 24 Oct 2025 |
| London to the Cotswolds | Re: North Cotswold line delays and cancellations - 2025 | 2 Oct 2025 |
| TransWilts line - Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, Salisbury | Letter from our MP to GWR's MD | 28 Oct 2025 |
| - | Station to bus - the bus stop 'for the station' in Melksham | 14 Oct 2025 |
| - | Train service reliability (or lack thereof) at Melksham - letter to MP | 7 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Melksham trains - "useless" has improved, but only to thin and unreliable | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Gloucester closure at end of September 2025 - effect on TransWilts | 4 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Melksham Transport User Group / Committee Level / 25th September 2025 | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Swindon <-> Westbury service updates and amendments, ongoing discussion - 2025 | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Lacock Halt - opened 16th October 1905 | 16 Oct 2025 |
| Heart of Wessex | Travel disruption warning amid Frome railway bridge work - 1 to 2 November 2025 | 31 Oct 2025 |
| - | December 2025 timetable | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Work to repair Weymouth's 'failing' harbour walls begins - October 2025 | 12 Oct 2025 |
| - | Visually-impaired woman 'had to cross track alone' at Yeovil Pen Mill - Aug 2024 | 9 Oct 2025 |
| - | Public comment on staff shortages | 9 Oct 2025 |
| Portsmouth to Cardiff | Plan a special timetable for engineering - then it changes on the day | 27 Oct 2025 |
| - | Portsmouth ? to Cardiff ? | 4 Oct 2025 |
| - | Posting in "Portsmouth to Cardiff: but more "Portsmouth to Portsmouth" | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Dilton Marsh - stop orders when the train scheduled to call is cancelled. | 14 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Limpley Stoke B3108 bridge damage repair - 21 July to 31 August 2025 | 19 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: More 4 car 158s for Portsmouth services | 8 Oct 2025 |
| Bristol and Bath (WECA, now WEMCA) | A movement strategy for Bath | 31 Oct 2025 |
| - | Lawrence Hill rail station to become step free with new lift | 17 Oct 2025 |
| - | Dropped city 'circle line' train plan revived | 14 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Bath Spa - Bristol Temple Meads Oct 27-30 replacement buses only | 10 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Bristol First Bus drivers strike action - Sep / Oct 2025, now resolved | 2 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: New station at Henbury, Bristol | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: WESTlink Demand Responsive Transport services | 20 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: MetroWest services begin | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Bristol Temple Meads - station, facilities, incidents and events (merged posts) | 1 Oct 2025 |
| Shorter journeys in South and West Wales | Watch as cows on platform delay rail passengers at Neath - 12 October 2025 | 13 Oct 2025 |
| Shorter journeys in Devon - Central, North and South | Sheep killed after being struck on Dartmoor train line - 16 October 2025 | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Berth Maps - more accurate train movement data with Exeter area demonstration | 17 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Tarka Line - Exeter to Barnstaple: services, facilities, incidents and events | 26 Oct 2025 |
| Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall | What is there to do in Falmouth? Enough for how many people? | 30 Oct 2025 |
| - | Shortage of staff who can remember the HST?? | 11 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Mid Cornwall Metro - Newquay, St Austell, Truro & Falmouth | 9 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Lostwithiel - footbridge, services and sidings (merged topic) | 24 Oct 2025 |
| Across the West | TravelWatch Report 24.10.2025 / Journey to Taunton | 25 Oct 2025 |
| - | Kew woman now not fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond - Oct 2025 | 22 Oct 2025 |
| - | Insulated cups | 17 Oct 2025 |
| - | [OTD] 16th October 2017 - first IET train in service | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Caledonian Sleeper from Birmingham International from Jan 2026 | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | First Electric freight train on GWML - 30th September 2025 | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: GWR train manager jailed for 7 years for sexual assault - 22 June 2024 | 15 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Are Castle Class diagrams still available ? | 6 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025 | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Class 175s to Great Western Railway (GWR) | 6 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Templecombe to Swindon, bignosemac & Finn trip report. | 9 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing discussion | 10 Oct 2025 |
| Campaigns for new and improved services | Mostly the South West. Disused Railways. Which should still be here today? | 28 Oct 2025 |
| - | Stratford-on-Avon - Honeybourne | 10 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Campaigns to re-open Barnstaple to Bideford line (merged topics) | 15 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Portishead Line reopening for passengers - ongoing discussion | 27 Oct 2025 |
| News, Help and Assistance | discounted rail cards offer | 29 Oct 2025 |
| - | Updating old topics - yes please! | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: ALERT - 1.9.2025 - Unplanned temporary closure of service | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Server slow ... | 4 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Coffee Shop page on Facebook | 26 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Inline expansion of abbreviations and acronyms | 28 Oct 2025 |
| The Lighter Side | Where was I today - 1.11.2025 | 1 Nov 2025 |
| - | Seven pictures - one for each day of the week | 21 Oct 2025 |
| - | New service from Glasgow - pictures of where it goes | 21 Oct 2025 |
| - | Should our Coffee Shop also offer mints? | 21 Oct 2025 |
| - | Are they just taking the ... ? | 20 Oct 2025 |
| - | Guess the year this was written | 11 Oct 2025 |
| - | This is why you don't want to try stealing a bicycle - a faceplant, at least ;-) | 9 Oct 2025 |
| - | Trees near the railway | 4 Oct 2025 |
| - | Where Were We On 20th & 26th September 2025 | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | For those of our members / readers who don't like coal fired power stations ... | 2 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Where were Marion and I walking our dog today? | 28 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Thomas the Tank Engine and Reverend Wilbert Awdry - ongoing discussion | 17 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Squirrels - red, grey or albino, on the railways or otherwise - ongoing discussion | 12 Oct 2025 |
| The West - but NOT trains in the West | Dazzling lights and travel at night | 28 Oct 2025 |
| - | News from the High Street, Nailsea, North Somerset - October 2025 | 26 Oct 2025 |
| - | Free things to see and do - day trip to London | 8 Oct 2025 |
| - | Recycling rubbish and charity shops - something of a minefield? Ongoing discussion | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | New Devon & Cornwall Police £350k patrol boat to help fight offshore crime | 2 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: RAF Spitfire aircraft - original and replica - various incidents | 9 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Wadworth Brewery, Devizes - ongoing discussion and updates | 31 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Mining in Cornwall | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Stonehenge - National Monument in Wiltshire: merged posts, ongoing discussion | 12 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Weston-super-Mare - Birnbeck Pier restoration: ongoing developments and discussion | 5 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Cornwall's tourist board goes into liquidation | 2 Oct 2025 |
| Diary - what's happening when? | EPF conference 2026 - 5th and 6th June, Maastricht | 1 Nov 2025 |
| - | My 2026 planner - meetings and event co-ordination | 21 Oct 2025 |
| - | TravelWatch SouthWest, 24th October 2025, Taunton - INVITE | 20 Oct 2025 |
| - | Saturday, 25th October 2025 - Marlborough and Savernake Forest | 20 Oct 2025 |
| - | Choice of time and place for meetings - some thoughts / issues | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | Railfuture, Severnside - 18th October 2025 | 2 Oct 2025 |
| - | GWR Train / Bus integration - WWRUG, 26th November 2025, Trowbridge. All welcome | 2 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: TravelWatch SouthWest General Meeting, Friday 6 March 2026 | 22 Oct 2025 |
| Swindon to Gloucester / Cheltenham | Over-running engineering works - 2025 October 6-8 | 7 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Gloucester - station, facilities, services, events & incidents (merged posts) | 1 Oct 2025 |
| Looking forward - the next 2, 5, 10 and 20 years | Re: Calne branch - past, present, future | 19 Oct 2025 |
| South Western services | Car fire on railway track at Brockenhurst disrupts train services - 1 Nov 2025 | 1 Nov 2025 |
| - | Good work by SWT today, 27 th October 2025 | 27 Oct 2025 |
| - | State of service - South Western, as at October 2025 | 20 Oct 2025 |
| - | West of England Line - Soil Moisture Deficit Update - 10 October 2025 | 10 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Two trains collide at Fisherton Tunnel near Salisbury - 31 October 2021 | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: South Western Railways Waterloo - Bristol services axed | 7 Oct 2025 |
| Cross Country services | Cross country strike suspended on Saturday 1st November 2025 | 30 Oct 2025 |
| - | The longest league journey - Truro to Gateshead | 26 Oct 2025 |
| - | Ad for... would it be table 51 ... 1970s | 19 Oct 2025 |
| - | Cross country strike action Saturday 18 October 2025 | 12 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: No trains will call Gloucester 27 September- 5th October 2025 | 4 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Cross Country - serious concerns | 14 Oct 2025 |
| Chiltern Railways services | Runaway tortoise found sheltering on train tracks at Bicester station - Oct 2025 | 10 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Chiltern Railways: an update on rolling stock / services | 14 Oct 2025 |
| Transport for London | Hackney bus driver suspended after Jewish man 'shut inside bus': 27 October 2025 | 31 Oct 2025 |
| - | Tube user hit with £558 court penalty for rollerskating into Whitechapel Station | 27 Oct 2025 |
| - | TfL sorry as Northern line delays enter fifth day - October 2025 | 23 Oct 2025 |
| - | Has the Elizabeth line led to a rise in rental prices? | 20 Oct 2025 |
| - | London's fare dodgers - ongoing issue and discussion here on the forum | 20 Oct 2025 |
| - | TfL users urged to 'act like a friend' to harassment victims - October 2025 | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | London buses infested with cockroaches, say drivers - October 2025 | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Bus Service 205 | 1 Nov 2025 |
| - | Re: Docklands Light Railway (DLR) | 1 Oct 2025 |
| Heritage railways, Railtours, buses, canals, steamships and other public transport based attractions | Newquay Land Train reaches end of the line - 31 October 2025 | 31 Oct 2025 |
| - | Donor offers £1m to restore Brunel's 'other bridge' in Cumberland Basin, Bristol | 30 Oct 2025 |
| - | Who will be running special trains on Network Rail lines in 2026? | 26 Oct 2025 |
| - | HST to Fort William at Bath Spa 24/10/25 | 24 Oct 2025 |
| - | 25th October 2025 - Railbus returns to Cirencester | 23 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Steam trains now not to return at Severn Beach - updated topic, Nov 2025 | 25 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: National Railway Museums - merged posts | 9 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Paddle Steamer Waverley - merged posts | 6 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: West Somerset Railway - Bishops Lydeard, near Taunton, to Minehead | 23 Oct 2025 |
| Media about railways, and other means of transport | Workers help free ambulance stuck on railway crossing | 28 Oct 2025 |
| - | Hidden steam engine train shed | 24 Oct 2025 |
| - | TSSR union bosses "splurged members’ cash" | 22 Oct 2025 |
| - | Journalist safety officers hired in every police force in UK | 5 Oct 2025 |
| - | Train cancellations surge 50 per cent after being nationalised [SWR] | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Photographers asked to tell story of rail travel | 9 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Colne Valley Viaduct - Britain's longest railway bridge completed | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Swans versus Avocet | 7 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Book - reminiscences of Porton Station,Wiltshire | 19 Oct 2025 |
| Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them | The modern pedestrian | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Work to start on England's 'first Cycle Street' - Cambridge, October 2025 | 2 Oct 2025 |
| - | Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised' | 2 Oct 2025 |
| The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom | Ferry Services bill would boost Isle of Wight income, MP says | 1 Nov 2025 |
| - | Multiple stabbings on a London bound train in Cambridgeshire - 01 Nov 25 | 1 Nov 2025 |
| - | Doncaster rail college named after Flying Scotsman engineer | 1 Nov 2025 |
| - | Travel-related apps: a more resiliant architecture | 31 Oct 2025 |
| - | Passenger numbers up 7% Spring 2025 on Spring 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
| - | Man jailed for strangling railway worker after ticket dispute at Derby, May 2025 | 30 Oct 2025 |
| - | Councils paying school transport costs for 470,000 pupils in England | 28 Oct 2025 |
| - | Newcastle Central Station's 1890s toilets left vicar 'physically nauseated' | 28 Oct 2025 |
| - | Rail trespassers warned to 'stay off the tracks' by Network Rail and Police | 27 Oct 2025 |
| - | Beaulieu Park railway station in Essex opens to passengers - 26 October 2025 | 26 Oct 2025 |
| - | Asylum seeker guilty of hotel worker's savage murder at Bescot Stadium station | 24 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Weather updates from across the UK, with implications for infrastructure - ongoing discussion, 2025 | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | West Coast Main Line (WCML) upgrade work: Oct 2025 - Jan 2026 (merged topics) | 21 Oct 2025 |
| - | Disrupted disruption | 18 Oct 2025 |
| - | 20 years of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch - 17.10.2025 | 17 Oct 2025 |
| - | London Bridge: time for a new clock | 17 Oct 2025 |
| - | Lessons to be learned over stalled White Rose Station - West Yorkshire mayor | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Reports of sexual offences on trains up by a third since 2015 | 15 Oct 2025 |
| - | Blyth's Northumberland Line train station bus stop snub 'madness' | 14 Oct 2025 |
| - | Former Penistone railway site to house restaurant and food spaces | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | Met PC denies misconduct over manhandling woman during bus stop arrest - 2023 | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | Reading fellow travellers - first impressions not always right. | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | Birmingham's new railway stations on Camp Hill Line | 12 Oct 2025 |
| - | Southeastern train timetable change to beat leaves on the line - October 2025 | 12 Oct 2025 |
| - | BTP Officer convicted of assault | 12 Oct 2025 |
| - | Empty Sunderland railway station 'an embarrassment' | 11 Oct 2025 |
| - | Network Rail bosses told to clean up after fly-tipping in Hull | 10 Oct 2025 |
| - | Advice for visitors | 5 Oct 2025 |
| - | Menai Suspension Bridge closes for bolts to be replaced - October 2025 | 4 Oct 2025 |
| - | Road diversion of 24 miles will 'devastate' trade - Nottingham, October 2025 | 4 Oct 2025 |
| - | Pegswood - commuter service changing to become useless to current customers | 4 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Eastern Airways - regional airline, now in administration - merged posts (Nov 2025) | 27 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Tyne and Wear Metro - merged posts, ongoing developments and discussion | 13 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: [otd] 2nd October 2002 - Railtrack being sold to newly created Network Rail | 2 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Ryanair - routes, schedules, incidents and issues (merged posts) | 23 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Passenger sadly died in December 2018, GWR subsequently fined £1 million | 3 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Driving licences and tests - ongoing discussion | 25 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Railway bridges struck by road vehicles - many incidents, ongoing discussion | 30 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) - Government proposals, alternative routes, discussion | 7 Oct 2025 |
| The Wider Picture Overseas | Nasa’s supersonic passenger plane makes first flight | 29 Oct 2025 |
| - | More than 40 dead after multi-vehicle crash in Uganda - October 2025 | 22 Oct 2025 |
| - | Anger as historic Clyde ship Falls of Clyde towed out to sea and sunk in Hawaii | 18 Oct 2025 |
| - | Mapping - Europe, online tool illustrated with "where I have been". | 10 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: 16 dead after historic funicular railway derails in Lisbon - 3 September 2025 | 20 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Heavy road vehicles on railway level crossings - various incidents | 31 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Eurostar - merged posts, ongoing discussion topic | 22 Oct 2025 |
| Railway History and related topics | Junction Railwayana - Collectors' fairs 2026 | 30 Oct 2025 |
| - | [otd] 17th October 1943 - Bangkok to Burma rail link joined up | 17 Oct 2025 |
| - | Ironbridge Industrial Revolution museums - ongoing developments and discussion | 17 Oct 2025 |
| - | Direct to Windsor? | 6 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Principal railways of England and Wales, 1898 | 16 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway - merged topics | 29 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: 'Railway 200' events and commemorations 2025 | 1 Oct 2025 |
| - | Re: The Cheddar Valley Lost Railway - the 'Strawberry Line' from Yatton to Cheddar and beyond | 19 Oct 2025 |
