Recent content by ricbax

Not impossible, but too impractical to be worthwhile IMO, what with the two station entrances and the requirement for access through the station to reach the NRM. You would either have to ride roughshod over this requirement, or dream up a very elaborate gating scheme requiring high staffing...

Makes me wonder if extending to Heworth was ever on the cards, if they always have to go back to Heaton or park at Pelaw anyway? (I know they can never call at Newcastle Central due to the politics of it.) My reasoning is that Heworth would be more convenient for people intending to park and...

Well, the ticket barriers at Edinburgh Waverley have never let me through for a journey starting or ending in Newcastle, regardless of what ticket type I was carrying. (For those who don't know, only the west facing bay platforms at Waverley are barriered, and it's necessary to pass through...

I like BR blue-and-grey, and pretty much all pre-1980s liveries. Of more recent liveries, I like GNER and Grand Central. Very understated, professional-looking liveries, they are my idea of what rail liveries should look like. I'm also fond of SPT carmine-and-cream as it appears on the...