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Monthly Magazine
As at 20th March 2025 08:34 GMT
This month so far ...
New and continued public topics from 1 Feb 2025 to 1 Mar 2025 inclusive
Introductions and chatWinter Tour - Melksham to Inverness - 3rd to 6th March 202517 Feb 2025
-How many countries have you visited? Used a train in?15 Feb 2025
Who's who on Western railwaysRe: English Regional Transport Association (ERTA) - now BRTA10 Feb 2025
-Re: Great Western Railway - Directors and management team (merged posts, ongoing updates)12 Feb 2025
Fare's FairPAYG Smartcard Offer - March 2025.28 Feb 2025
-Ticket offices - changes afoot?28 Feb 2025
-5 Retailers - 5 different fares for same journeys19 Feb 2025
-You thought UK train ticketing was a mess? Try booking one in Europe19 Feb 2025
-On difficulties obtaining the fares that are in the system 19 Feb 2025
-Tickets (and fines) for tourists17 Feb 2025
-Tickets Please !14 Feb 2025
-Ticket agency sales commission rates 8 Feb 2025
-Uber credits 4 Feb 2025
-MOVED: GWR Rewards - launching March? 4 Feb 2025
-Campaign for Better Transport - Campaign for lower fares 2 Feb 2025
-Re: Children going on holiday during school term time 1 Feb 2025
-Re: Millions of train tickets to be discounted next week 5 Feb 2025
-Re: Railcard Prices going up26 Feb 2025
-Re: Cancelling a ticket on the GWR app23 Feb 2025
-Re: Weekend First Upgrades 8 Feb 2025
Buses and other ways to travelBetter Links - Midsomer Norton and Radstock to Bath and Bristol27 Feb 2025
-100 years of coach travel21 Feb 2025
-Under-21s get £1 bus fares in £100m budget deal - Wales, Feb 202520 Feb 2025
-First Bus and passenger space heating13 Feb 2025
-First Bus in Bath, first quarter 2025: struggling to run the timetable11 Feb 2025
-Bristol Bus Electrification10 Feb 2025
-Three new bus routes for Bristol 6 Feb 2025
-Re: A36 Closed Limpley Stoke August to Spring 202514 Feb 2025
-Re: Rural buses - does anyone promote them?20 Feb 2025
-Re: billboard for Llandegley International Airport to be removed19 Feb 2025
-Re: Heathrow Airport - plans for expansion: ongoing discussion, merged posts12 Feb 2025
-Government backing 2nd runway at Gatwick 27 Feb 2025
-Re: Open top bus service 300 Lands End St Ives12 Feb 2025
Your rights and redressGWR Twitter reduced service16 Feb 2025
London to ReadingDo my eyes deceive me?16 Feb 2025
-Re: Elizabeth line train speeding 20mph over limit left passengers shaken 1 Feb 2025
London to Didcot, Oxford and BanburyThe Lost Stations of..........Oxford16 Feb 2025
-Re: Oxford station - facilities, improvements, parking, incidents and events - merged posts20 Feb 2025
London to Swindon and BristolMissing service25 Feb 2025
-Re: OTD - 17th February (1958) - first diesel, Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads17 Feb 2025
London to South WalesRe: Two rail workers killed in collision with train, near Port Talbot - Wed 3 July 201915 Feb 2025
London to the WestRe: Night Riviera - merged posts, ongoing discussion 8 Feb 2025
London to the CotswoldsProposed further redoubling (England's Economic Heartland report)19 Feb 2025
-"Old Worse and Worse"12 Feb 2025
-Re: North Cotswold line delays and cancellations - 2025 4 Feb 2025
-Re: Worcestershire Parkway Station project - ongoing discussion20 Feb 2025
North Downs LineAsh level crossing28 Feb 2025
-MOVED: Wokingham level crossing closures to cause Reading to Bracknell disruption27 Feb 2025
TransWilts lineTimetable change?24 Feb 2025
-Melksham to Europe - all in one book. 5 Feb 2025
-Re: 2025 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury 5 Feb 2025
-Re: Rail replacement advise - Melksham - until 23rd January 202510 Feb 2025
-Re: Go-Op Cooperative - proposals for additional rail services (merged posts)26 Feb 2025
Heart of WessexMarch 2025 Heart of Wessex closure24 Feb 2025
-Re: Heart of Wessex - strategic mayoral authority proposed 6 Feb 2025
-Re: Heart of Wessex Line - service issues (merged posts)19 Feb 2025
Portsmouth to Cardiff27th February - day out in Portsmouth17 Feb 2025
-Incident at Trowbridge station - 13 February 202513 Feb 2025
-Re: Cancellations on forgotten main line12 Feb 2025
Bristol (WECA) CommutersMOVED: Portishead Line Re-Opening confirmed ?10 Feb 2025
-Re: Flooding at Nailsea and Backwell - historic, 14 January 202322 Feb 2025
-Re: Bonaparte's at Bristol Temple Meads 5 Feb 2025
-Re: Brabazon, Bristol 6 Feb 2025
-Re: Bristol Temple Meads - station, facilities, incidents and events (merged posts) 3 Feb 2025
Oxford, Didcot and Reading from the WestRe: New Oxford - Bristol direct service, ongoing developments and discussion 1 Feb 2025
Shorter journeys in South and West WalesMost journeys in Wales made on new and improve trains11 Feb 2025
-Re: Carmarthen to Aberystwyth railway14 Feb 2025
Shorter journeys in Devon - Central, North and SouthRe: Delays on Devon services - merged posts, ongoing discussion14 Feb 2025
-Turf cutting ceremony at Okehampton Interchange 26 Feb 2025
Shorter journeys in Plymouth and CornwallMOVED: Planning permission needed to use a residence as a holiday home or let18 Feb 2025
-Re: A journey in the faaar west - Penzance to St Ives - 28th Jan 2025 1 Feb 2025
-Re: Cornish delays10 Feb 2025
-Re: Mid Cornwall Metro - Newquay, St Austell, Truro & Falmouth10 Feb 2025
-Re: Collision between car and train on the Looe Branch - 24 May 2323 Feb 2025
Across the WestRMT balloting for Industrial action on GWR27 Feb 2025
-GP found guilty of obstructing the railway 27 Feb 2025
-Integrated Transport meeting Tuesday Bristol 25 February26 Feb 2025
-Parliamentary Constituency Statistics25 Feb 2025
-Is it April 1st already ?? 21 Feb 2025
-Planning permission needed to use a residence as a holiday home or let17 Feb 2025
-Re: IEP seats in 2025 1 Feb 2025
-Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025 5 Feb 2025
-Re: 175s to GWR 5 Feb 2025
-Re: GWR wins accreditation under Safeguarding on Rail scheme 9 Feb 2025
-Re: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing discussion19 Feb 2025
-Re: Didcot Power Station - events and incidents, ongoing discussion23 Feb 2025
Campaigns for new and improved servicesRe: Birthday trip, Melksham to Penzance - 28th January 2025 1 Feb 2025
-Re: Active rail campaigns across the area we cover22 Feb 2025
-Re: Heathrow Southern Railway 3 Feb 2025
-Re: Finland and Estonia ponder undersea railway tunnel 7 Feb 2025
-Re: Campaign for Tavistock reopening11 Feb 2025
-Re: Portishead Line reopening for passengers - ongoing discussion 1 Feb 2025
News, Help and AssistanceRequest to members - please make subject lines read as good headlines!28 Feb 2025
-Not getting email notifications17 Feb 2025
-On progress / improvements on the responsive page and elsewhere 3 Feb 2025
-Re: Outstanding server / web site issues 5 Feb 2025
-Re: Blue Sky - @greatwesternrailway.info and @passenger.chat17 Feb 2025
-Re: Coffee Shop forum Server load - ongoing issues, being resolved by grahame 21 Feb 2025
-Re: A gremlin in the coffee machine last night11 Feb 2025
-Re: If you feel something is not right ...15 Feb 2025
-Re: Document and post archives and searching10 Feb 2025
-Re: Inline expansion of abbreviations and acronyms28 Feb 2025
-Re: Some Site Statistics 1 Mar 2025
The Lighter SideJeremy Clarkson working on 60163 'Tornado' - funny ;-)25 Feb 2025
-Artificial daftness? (things found online that are suspiciously iffy)18 Feb 2025
-In the spirit of 'Desert Island Discs' (BBC Radio 4 series) ... 16 Feb 2025
-For Valentine's Day14 Feb 2025
-Renaming Stations [OTD, 14 Feb 1889 and 2014}14 Feb 2025
-Plymouth Argyle 1 - 0 Liverpool10 Feb 2025
-Life and Travels of 150 246 8 Feb 2025
-Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains 8 Feb 2025
-All the fun of the fare. 5 Feb 2025
-Coffee Shop - statement on the three day challenge 5 Feb 2025
-The moral of this story: Be careful what you wish for ;-) 2 Feb 2025
-Re: Where might this bridge be found10 Feb 2025
-Re: No Trousers Tube Ride 2023: Londoners strip off as annual event returns22 Feb 2025
-Re: Annoying / amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos to illustrate press articles 6 Feb 2025
-Re: Squirrels - red or grey, on the railways or otherwise: merged topic 6 Feb 2025
The West - but NOT trains in the WestOld bus converted into 'exciting' school play space - Bristol, February 202518 Feb 2025
-Vibrant or dangerous? Colourful roundabout redesign divides village in Berkshire 2 Feb 2025
-Bristol artwork celebrates Brunel's pop-up Crimean hospital 2 Feb 2025
Diary - what's happening when?21st March 2025 - TravelWatch SouthWest General meeting20 Feb 2025
-any one attending this event in Manchester?28 Feb 2025
-public open forum of development in and around Bristol Temple meads10 Feb 2025
-Congresbury train station clean up 6 Feb 2025
-Re: Strategic Investment Plan consultation - Western Gateway - 20.12.24 to 2.2.2025 2 Feb 2025
-Re: 18th December, Swindon 11:30 - Go-op Share Offer Launch 4 Feb 2025
-Re: Integrated National Transport Strategy - invitation to contribute - by [update] 20 Feb 202517 Feb 2025
-Re: 'Railway 200' events and commemorations 2025 1 Feb 2025
Swindon to Gloucester / CheltenhamRailway station could get 300 extra trains a week thanks to £1.75billion project23 Feb 2025
-Re: Stroud - station, facilities, improvements, events and incidents - merged posts 2 Feb 2025
Looking forward - the next 5, 10 and 20 yearsOpen consultation - A railway fit for Britain's future - closes 15th April 202518 Feb 2025
-Rail Innovation Exhibition 2025 - 13th February 2025 7 Feb 2025
-Re: Get Britain Moving - Labour's plans to fix Britain's Railways18 Feb 2025
South Western servicesWheelchair users / Southern / SWR now taxied as standard from smaller stations? 1 Mar 2025
-SWR cancels - "that will be £10 please to refund" if you want your money back19 Feb 2025
-Free coffee - Waterloo, Valentine's Day, 2025 5 Feb 2025
-Re: Derailment near Walton-on-Thames, 4th March 202418 Feb 2025
-Re: Wokingham station - improvements, resignalling and siding - merged posts 3 Feb 2025
Transport for LondonThe cost of driverless tube trains21 Feb 2025
-Elizabeth Line Industrial Action - 202513 Feb 2025
-Preston Road - built for the Olympics11 Feb 2025
-Grenfell tower to be demolished 6 Feb 2025
-Re: first time I have seen RPI's actually on the tube trains12 Feb 2025
-Re: Clapham Common underground station panic - 5 May 202323 Feb 2025
Heritage railways, Railtours, buses, canals, steamships and other public transport based attractionsVintage coaches mark centenary of intercity route - Bristol to London25 Feb 2025
-Heritage rail locations across the area22 Feb 2025
-Brighton's last 1900s tram could return to service in 202520 Feb 2025
-End of horsedrawn service - Wadworth Brewery, Devizes - Feb 202519 Feb 2025
-Heritage railway nominated for award - Kent & East Sussex 8 Feb 2025
-Railway line under threat after landslip forces closure of track 2 Feb 2025
-Re: West Somerset Railway - Bishops Lydeard to Minehead (merged posts)24 Feb 2025
Media about railways, and other means of transportElectrification of Weston Super Mare loop? 6 Feb 2025
-200 years of powered passenger transport on rails in the media 5 Feb 2025
Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with themPetition for drivers to be "presumed liable" for cyclist collisions.24 Feb 2025
-Re: Do I detect a certain lack of sympathy?24 Feb 2025
The Wider Picture in the United KingdomNetwork Rail fined £3.41m over track worker's death on tracks in Surbiton, 202127 Feb 2025
-UK Rail Summit, 3 March 2025 - is any one attending this event?27 Feb 2025
-Advice please, railway embankment repairs and restoring the ecology/replanting.25 Feb 2025
-St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany - Feb 202521 Feb 2025
-TravelWatch NorthWest - general meetings, June and September 202520 Feb 2025
-Defibrillators on trains 20 Feb 2025
-A tough test for Heidi Alexander: just make our railway services reliable16 Feb 2025
-Adventurous cat takes train into London 16 Feb 2025
-Firstgroup: article in the Times newspaper.10 Feb 2025
-Mother lands dream job after 10-year career break - Southern Railway 9 Feb 2025
-Level crossings to close as part of rail upgrades - Surrey, 2025 8 Feb 2025
-UK cold snap to bring sleet and hill snow over the weekend - 7 Feb 2025 7 Feb 2025
-Mainline closed after car crashes on to railway at Salford - 7 Feb 2025 7 Feb 2025
-Final call - now up to 4 minutes at Kings Cross 7 Feb 2025
-Ball bearing attacks on Cambridge local trains 6 Feb 2025
-Top and bottom stations for passenger convenience 4 Feb 2025
-Landslips and landslides on the transport networks 3 Feb 2025
-Stop using the word ‘passenger’, Network Rail tells staff 2 Feb 2025
-Re: The sorry state of British train etiquette – and the 10 worst offences 1 Feb 2025
-Re: Greatest Gathering - 1st to 3rd August 2025 3 Feb 2025
-Re: Update on collapsed Bridgewater Canal 1 Feb 2025
-Re: Sink holes - a wider problem?19 Feb 2025
-Re: A bear may go where a dog may not?25 Feb 2025
-Re: OTD - 28th February in various years. Many thing have happened on 28th Feb.28 Feb 2025
-Re: Fare dodging fines imposed by Plymouth magistrates - February 2022 8 Feb 2025
-Re: Diary Of A Reasonably Frequent Rail User11 Feb 2025
-Re: Railway bridges struck by road vehicles - merged topic, ongoing discussion12 Feb 2025
-Re: HS2 - Government proposals, alternative routes and general discussion28 Feb 2025
The Wider Picture OverseasSome pictures from my feed of how they do things different in other countries25 Feb 2025
-All passengers and crew survive plane crash at Toronto airport - Feb 202518 Feb 2025
-Bus crash in Bolivia kills at least 30 people - Feb 202518 Feb 2025
-Ski lift collapse in Spain injures at least 30 people - Jan 202516 Feb 2025
-Eighteen killed in New Delhi railway station crush - 15 Feb 202516 Feb 2025
-Fatal crash of ICE at level crossing near Hamburg12 Feb 2025
-How to Run a Railway, Portuguese style. 7 Feb 2025
-Want to go to Venice - will Innsbruck do you? 7 Feb 2025
-Re: Major rail accident in Greece - 28 Feb 202328 Feb 2025
Railway History and related topicsBentley Model Railway Exhibition, Calne, 10th and 11th May 202520 Feb 2025
-Woodhams Scrapyard, Barry - a history15 Feb 2025
-Re: Somerset and Dorset Devonshire Tunnel flood 6 Feb 2025
-Where were Finn and I yesterday, 15th February 2025?16 Feb 2025
Pen and Quill (and keyboard)Base data for TravelWatch SouthWest23 Feb 2025

 
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