Blogs about Trains

Via Rail Canada's painfully public problems with its new Venture trainsets from Siemens are tough to watch, especially when it seems as though some of these problems could have been avoided. Having worked in the …

Thursday 14th November 2024 It’s Bus and Coach Show time again. Since Tuesday the NEC is playing host to the biannual exhibition that showcases shiny new buses, coaches, minibuses and mini coaches and a whole …

Some good news: Caltrain is working on a level boarding plan, as documents requested under the Public Records Act attest. Their "Level Boarding Roadmap: Technical Task Force Platform Report" dated April 2024 is a reasonably …

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866 (GOLD)Nowhere near as dramatic as last week's transformation, but ceiling work has continued beyond the main fitting of the panels, with untidy areas improved and trim …

At Caltrain’s board meeting on Thursday September 5 (and meetings at SamTrans and VTA last week), board members grappled with the issues around regional transit funding and solutions being proposed in a regional process with …

The Fox River Trolley Museum announced today on Facebook that they are deaccessing two pieces of equipment and making them available to other museums. One of the two pieces is on the PNAERC list: San …

I was going to write a different blog post. I had one lined up about Merseyrail that was very nice and complimentary and optimistic. I would've written it yesterday, but an existential crisis about the …

On the RailsMBSK Facebook group, Chris C asked when the last passenger train served Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. Naturally, I leapt to my timetable collection for the answer.