Seen Around

Saturday 31st October 2026 Another potpourri of miscellany from the past month’s travels….. Slow going on the main lines You couldn’t travel anywhere on either the West Coast or East Coast Main Lines very quickly on the weekend of 17th/18th October, as I found when travelling from Euston to Warrington on the Saturday and back south from Eaglescliff to King’s Cross on the Sunday. Network Rail’s orange army was obviously hard at work as passengers enjoyed a change of scenery to avoid the closed line between Rugby and Stafford adding an hour to the journey time with trains running via Coventry and Tame Bridge Parkway as well as lines closed between Doncaster and Peterborough with an extra hour to enjoy the delights of travelling through Gainsborough and Lincoln. It all helps to avoid the hassle of rail replacement buses and coaches but it does mean less trains and those that do run being overcrowded, bearing in mind weekends are now a hotbed of leisure travellers as I recently featured…