Had the incredible opportunity to drive a preserved Class 313 at Eastleigh this afternoon! Thanks to Peter Spokes for organising the event at Arlington Fleet. Another huge thanks for the driving instruction from Bessie 🚂 🦡 and Conductor Collins (Nat), and a fun game of "buffer stop"

This has annoyed me irrationally. I can't do -1 chain on a Class 700, can I?

Goodbye Class 323s! You've served the West Midlands well. Let's hope your friends up north take good care of you... 🥹 Huge thanks to BLS Fixtures and West Midlands Railway for organising a fantastic farewell tour.

Sound advice.

Double-TOC, double-IET(ish) action at London Euston tonight... Classes 800 and 805 making friends! Off to Swindon and back for a round trip on this rare opportunity on GWR tonight.

I see Southern have started retrofitting their 377s with time machines...

You can now buy tickets from us - yes, really! We're pleased to announce the launch of Realtime Tickets. realtimetickets.co.uk

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call Privacy is dead: For multiple months, any O2 customer has had their location exposed to call initiators without their knowledge. mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o…

For those following along at home, this has now been resolved as of this morning.

Trainline launched an AI chatbot last week. I've uncovered flaws with it, among others, including: - Saying adults can travel using child tickets - Not knowing about railcard restrictions - Not knowing about routing restrictions By me for The Observer: observer.co.uk/news/national/…