Recent content by YorksLad12

Also known as... Leeds Bradford Airport Parkway Station :lol: https://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/projects/transport-projects/leeds-public-transport-investment-programme-lptip/rail-station-improvements/

My bad; the "siding" is the turnback facility. It would still add to the walk; and would take people who didn't want to do the walk on the Horsforth side away from the bus stops. And you'll be in green belt (so no park & ride facility). Horsforth and the Kirkstall Forge route are both in their...

I think they would probably be lettered, if a complete renumbering was not on the cards. Paragraph 6.3 in that document is interesting from a Leeds perspective, given that the station already has an (expensive) southern entrance from the existing footbridge. Topic for a different thread ;)

It's an awkward station in an awkward place, but it's also in the right place for passengers, with large catchment areas on both sides of the valley within 15 minutes walk (I did the walk up the hill often). The path over the road bridge isn't the safest, and I always thought there should be a...

On the one hand... tosh. On the other hand... newly-elected Labour metro Mayor.

Possibly, but I think we're seeing (or someone is seeing) causal relationships that doesn't exist. A house near a viaduct was poorly maintained and thus collapsed. It doesn't follow that this is the first step in a new eastern viaduct and four-tracking from Leeds to Neville Hill. Sometimes...

It fell down because it wasn't being maintained. Put it this way; why just that building, and not the ones to the left as seen in this video of the story? If it's for TRU, why haven't Network Rail said anything?

The amusing part of this thread for me is the way people write about Sheffield Victoria Station as if it still exists. It doesn't. Magna tram train stop will cost nearly £9m. If you want a heavy rail two-platform replacement you're looking at iro £25m (see Haxby). Plus all of the...

Combined Authorities have the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement. It's a five-year funding plan that covers everything from light rail to potholes. Money is released annually. It's not a huge amount of money, comparatively speaking; Tracy Brabin can't use it to build Mass Transit...

Interesting to me as well, confirms the patchy signal I get either side of Wakefield. Then again, with a Voyager, I can be sat at Sheffield or Wakefield stations with no signal until we clear the platform. When I used to travel by coach with a football team there would always be not-spots along...

Perfect-ish. Board an LNER train at London, or any of the terminals, and the seats will all be red or amber as they are either reserved or could be reserved along the route (apart from in the unreserved coach). One thing I dislike about electronic reservations is that you can only see the...

Knottingley did have platforms on the Askern route, back in the day, I believe. I spoke to someone from the Friends of Askern Station years ago; I don't think they realised you couldn't extend Leeds-Knottingley services down that way to Doncaster without omitting Knottingley itself...

Order 11-car sets... take two out to strengthen other sets. :lol: (Yes, I know that can't be done (I assume) with the 80x sets. I josh.)

I'd say (with no insider knowledge) that any tram or tram train expansion will be electric only. That allows for two fleets at most and helps with the old net zero thing. £48m for the Penistone Line, although I haven't seen a firm plan for that either! There's City Region Sustainable Transport...

Thanks all. Honestly thought it was freight only, especially with the long single sections. Nice detour though; will have to have a night out in Sheffield and catch 1E73 home sometime ;)