Recent content by Allwinter_Kit

I always thought it was odd that when TPE has fallen over at Leeds (so most days) the announcements always stipulate that "your next transpennine express service is the XX:XX to Wherever" - presumably because the passengers aren't able to use Northern / CrossCountry instead to avoid having to...

No. Pacers were awful, are awful, and the fact that heritage lines now run them outside of a kind of "look how terrible things were in the 90s/00s/10s" way is terrifying. The idea of rocking up at a heritage railway on a Saturday and instead of the whoosh of steam being presented with the...

Leeds - Skipton are (from my anecdotal experience) back to being properly busy in the peak and are certainly busier off-peak than before. Given the plans for housing growth and whatnot, extending the trains is definitely a good shout - especially when they are lopping 25% of capacity off half...

Well, they released that so late (and it will be so rammed) that they achieved their objective. I'm now booked on a coach. Such joy.

This is from LNER's website on Sunday. Only 1 train each way between Leeds and London it would appear? That'll be a fun service!

I came with both of these and realised that I'm actually not sure what the "official" designation is? I think just "Leeds" and "Edinburgh" (with Edinburgh's other main station being simply "Haymarket" but I'm also pretty sure that both of those stations carry signage with "Leeds City" and...

Really hope not - on the train this morning we were leaving people on the platform with a 4 car 331 (although the train before had been cancelled due to "a fault on the train") down the Airedale. Are the platform lengthening works going ahead / do they have a timetable or are they just going...

If you've got an M-Card you can always tap-in on one side and then, at the other gateway, do a "[shrug!] Not sure why it ain't working guv!" at the barrier assistant and they'll let you through.

Just on an hourly Skipton - Leeds (as it's a Sunday) and some people are choosing to stand rather than fill in the middle seats on the 6 seater bays. It's ridiculous that this isn't a half hourly service as a standard. Still. On the weekday, losing 1/4 of the trains to Skipton, 1/2 the...

Or if you're ever in Manchester and ride the tram out to Altrincham, I have been told the rather "shoogily" ride on the former railway is a result of it hunting around on the track there at higher speeds.

Brilliant thanks all. I suspect what we might do to enable the journey to happen earlier would be to buy it from Leeds and then just pay the SON - LDS bit on the day. £34.30 per person each way sounds incredible (in every sense of the word). It may be we go via London one way (as it seems...

Hello all, Myself and the good Lady Allwinter are hoping to travel to St Ives in Cornwall in September. We're not too precious about dates right now, but we are interested to see whether the train journey is even vaguely feasible / affordable or if we should just drive. A couple of issues with...

It doesn't help that pedestrian and cycling access to Steeton and Silsden is pretty terrible. With no safe crossing points across the Airedale Expressway, a lot of people in Silsden drive to the station just as a safe way to get there! On the Steeton side, all the old footpaths and such are long...

I concur. The current roof might be listed, but it's little more than a glass Victorian warehouse - that said the benefits of replacing it with a UPVC modern warehouse roof aren't exactly apparent. I think we'll have to wait until we've got a bit more detail than these concept sketches to really...

I didn't realise the plan for 2 x 3car 331s had been binned. That is incredibly disappointing - and hardly the much vaunted capacity increase we were promised. Given the rather unpleasant level of overcrowding at present I guess Northern are going to settle on leaving a few more people on the...