Recent content by MidnightFlyer

Didn't Virgin Trains, as was, relax peak ticketing restrictions one midweek evening in 2018 so people could get home to watch an England match?

Though there was an entry in Branch Line News recently saying that some of the mileages along the West Midlands Metro shown in the most recent Trackmaps have been recalculated, though sadly the summary wasn't the most obvious! (Hence my conflicting sources comment.) The revised line diagram...

I think it is 54ch from The Royal to Wolves Station, though my sources appear to be conflicting, so I am happy to be corrected!

It was proposed years ago, how officially I do not know, but Oxenholme to something that reflects the fact the station's in pretty much a suburb of Kendal. Kendal Main or Kendal Junction perhaps?

Chase line services are fast between New Street and Tame Bridge. Wolves-Walsalls serve the likes of Hamstead etc.

That's engineering allowance, not pathing allowance. Presumably some sort of (planned) single line working or similar? ECML is bi-directional for a good distance up there I think. Edit - not planned, now I've taken time to actually read the schedules! You'll notice engineering time routinely...

Waterlooville? May have had some form of tramway etc. but I don't think it ever had something which, had it survived, we'd call a 'national rail' service.

I think the greatest indication of this is some of the paths the existing intercity services have to make do with once they get within a few miles of Glasgow and Edinburgh ex Carstairs. The relative crawl from Newton (if you're lucky) into Glasgow Central and the wait between Slateford and...

Only twice I have ever felt on edge travelling around the country. One was on Byker station (I think it was) on the T&W Metro one night a few years ago - it seemed like every dodgy character on Tyneside was amassed on the opposite platform with the usual behaviour / language / activities. They...

Wasn't there a few proposals all announced by the same company at once? I remember one for Euston - WCML - Barrow - Carlisle around the same time.

Nottingham - Skegness at Grantham (though it is possible to avoid by taking the third side of the triangle at Allington).

Used to have the onboard radios on both Virgin Voyagers and Pendolinos - 4 channels IIRC on the former and about 15 on the latter, including a few BBC national stations. Must be getting on a dozen years or so since they were switched off, though they are still visible between seats - even as...

South West Scotland is absolutely lovely, that and the rest of the Borders is one part of the world I really need to explore more of (once I can go outside again, obviously ;)). For me, southern Scotland suffers much in the same way that the North Lancs - East Cumbria - West Durham traingle does...

I'm too young to remember Carstairs station before the bulldozers visited, but from photos it looked rather overengineered during its final few years between most of its service vanishing and the demolition of the buildings. Looks much less impressive these days, but at least it does now have a...

Runs to Banbury only from the May LTP timetable https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P65568/2020-11-05/detailed