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    Bradford Forster Square Redevelopment: Rumour that ticket office to close?

    I have been told by WYCA that the combined Bus and Train day rover is one of the best selling of their tickets and the Senior day rover train only is also very popular
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    Housing developer plans to re-open Goldsborough station

    On the Developers website http://flaxbypark.com/flaxby_park_features.html it does not mention a new railway station, only bus links have been mentioned. We have not been consulted on the matter. The timetable can be tweaked to allow for slowing down, station stop, and acceleration of about 3 to...
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    Northern timetable plan for May 2018

    From December, the off peak services will be 3 car 170s and the peak services will be 2 X 2 car 150s, the 15minute services will be XX00 all stations Leeds to Harrogate XX15 Horsforth, Harrogate, Starbeck, Knaresborough. XX30 All stations to Harrogate XX45 Horsforth, Harrogate, all stations to...
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    Kirkstall Forge Station Parking

    The "Harrogate Line Rail User Group" has been promoting Kirkstall Forge Station as an alternative to Horsforth, it has been instrumental in having the service increased from hourly to half hourly. We are still trying to promote a park and ride station at Horsforth Woodside which is next to the...
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    High Speed Two (HS2) discussion

    A through route to the North East could be through the gap between Leeds and Bradford with a possible station in the Pudey area then carrying on the route of the the proposed Pudsey Dishforth Motorway scheme from the 1980s, which would go close to the L & B Airport then across the Wharfe valley...
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    False platforms

    Carnforth has a couple of platforms that are not in use, although there is track through them. These being the West Coast Main Line, the platforms have a fence running down them to stop people getting near the edge.
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    Re-Opening Curves to Create New Travel Opportunities

    The Horbury Curve, actually Crigglestone Jn to Horbury Station Jn still has a single line mostly still in situ with Flat Bottom CWR on concrete sleepers although both junctions have been removed.
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    Stations which should be renamed

    Weeton Station on the Leeds Harrogate line should become Huby. Dent Station should be Dentdale.
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    Trackworker clothing

    The rule came in about 5 years ago, but has been ignored in some areas of Network Rail, as somebody rightly quoted full length high vis trousers or overtrousers must be worn, this does not apply to train drivers etc in depots or going to signal telephones etc.
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    Trackworker clothing

    All persons on or about the track are not allowed to wear shorts on the Network Rail infrastructure, it is in the rule book.

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