Recent content by Killingworth

But first the landslip near New Mills needs fixing, currently restricting the route to single track until tha autumn. Certaily a good idea to increase seating capacity city to city and no neef to stop 6 car trains (over 6 is a bit too far fetched) at all 4 car platforms on the route. Both could...

Would that it were so all day, all year round and in all weathers. Along the Hope Valley line the average number of passengers boarding each train at Edale is just over 10, heavily weighted towards daytime summer sunny, weekends. All the others are lower and from memory Bamford may not be as...

If you think a rail link will take a lot of cars out of the Peak District the evidence at Matlock and the Hope Valley is rather against it. Only Edale might offer some suport. Even with an hourly service the car park there is full of incoming tourists, not local people travelling out. At Hope...

Passenger services ceased on 6 March 1967. Trains continued until 1968 when the line was closed. For 56 years the tunnels, bridges, cuttings and embankments have been deteriorating. I've walked almost all of it, or as close as possible, from Buxton to Ambergate and can appreciate the enormously...

Has that much detail been confirmed yet? It is a long design process before specific orders leaving time for changes.

Don't TOCs put this out to tender and then it's up to that company to rustle up buses as needed? Curiously Arriva had it for Northern, certainly until recently. Thus we may get a driver and coach from Kendal or Stoke to replace a train in the Peak District, using their own satnav because...

And if running 4 car as they should there's a chance catering will be able to serve the whole train. Unlike on a 6 car 170 - or 185 of TPE

My picture in Post 9 shows how dependent we've become on our phones. Half, if not more, are looking at them or holding them ready. At busier times linking the information found on different apps with rhat displayed at the station is challenging. The displays iin the upper circulation area for...

I was at Dore on the morning of the 25th where points at Dore West apparently failed to reset after a freight service had passed. All westbound services were held for an hour until cleared with consequent delays and cancellations across the north and beyond until about tea time. They were...

And IF they did the TOCs wouldn't reinstate the trains. Too late. That's happened before.

Nearer a 10 year period because the first units won't be operationally ready until about 2030.

A shame the OP hadn't been able to take the TPE Cleethorpes service for Doncaster at Lime Street to avoid the scrum and chaos that tends to prevail at Piccadilly 13/14 even at the best of times. With the current work on the overhead lounge area and the ramped travelator it's a nightmare even for...

Teesside population about 400k, Scarborough about 60k. Although a lot more probably travel to Scarborough than to Teesside.

And for natures next performance a landslip between Scunthorpe and Doncaster means that services are currently unable to run between these stations. As a result, trains will be cancelled or revised. https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/crowle-20240501/

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