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Rock Ferry, Bebington, Spital and Bromborough had platforms on both the main and local lines, but those serving the fast lines became redundant following the closure of Birkenhead Woodside.

The (un)reliability of Northern’s Leeds-Sheffield-Chesterfield-Nottingham service can’t be helping.

Diode - Welsh poetry

Just had a ride myself - the following trip was already on the boards at Birkenhead North as a 3 car service so there doesn’t seem to be any rush to take it off.

Strathclyde PTE were prepared to shell out for 156s to cover most of the Glasgow suburban services, although Haymarket had ex- Western Region 117s covering Fife commuter services into the late 1990s. I suspect that Pacers would have been heavily restricted in Scotland and inflexible members of...

Something else which occurs to me- as serving President in 2026, Trump will also preside over the 250th anniversary of independence. That will no doubt appeal to his vanity and ego!

If this had been anybody other than Trump, it would have been hailed as an amazing political achievement. For a race which was supposedly too close to call, Harris doesn’t look like winning any of the swing states at the moment. I agree with the opinion that a lot of this is on Biden, for...

I was pleasantly surprised by Leith when I stayed there last year - the inner harbour area has been regenerated well and the inner quayside has a bit of a feel of a small Dutch port.

I have a vague memory somewhere of a phantom service from Victoria to the south side of Manchester which was done away with in a pre-privatisation tidying up exercise, probably after all the East Anglian services were switched to Liverpool rather than alternating with Blackpool.

See also the earlier comment about turnover at Piccadilly - one of the things which probably works against Northern is that by definition most of their staff will be based around the major cities in Northern England so ripe for being poached when the long-distance operators are hiring qualified...

The climb from Shipley to Guiseley is treacherous at the best of times and headways on the Ilkley line are tight enough to cause headaches if an ex-Bradford train turns up late in the evening peak. I’ve been on enough Leeds -Ilkley trains trains which sat at Guiseley for 5-10 minutes waiting...

I remember from a visit to Mons in 2015 that losing the “TGV Wallon” was a contentious local issue - ten years to sort it out seems to be about par for the course with Belgian project management!

Would be interesting to see whether punters are defecting to service buses anyway. Many journeys on the above routes can be made on local routes or Metrolink (thinking particularly of Ashton).

It’s for reasons such as this that any transition away from a flat fare system has to be well thought out - it would just kill non-concessionary revenue from the service (which isn’t the highest in the first three months of the year when it’s cold, wet and dark) and the losers at the end of the...

Moderator Note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/merseytravel-saveaway-which-buses-is-it-valid-on.275438/#post-6987126 It’s known locally as the Wirral Tax. Facilities in Wirral are stripped back so you have to go to Liverpool via bus/train/tunnel/ferry and pay over the odds...

With a burrowing junction for Teesside freight as well.

The last incarnation of the East Midlands St Pancras-Leeds HST service had 20 minutes at Nottingham and the same at Sheffield. It was almost like a rail tour.

It would make life at the fringes of the network difficult- day trips to London would be pointless if you lived more than two or three hours away, for a start. The up Highland Chieftain would be blocked until Perth. When I moved across to Leeds and still had a YP railcard, I found that for my...

1645 Leeds-Kings Cross has been reinstated.

Depending on where you count the TransPennine route as starting, also Wavertree Technology Park, Lea Green, Whiston and East Garforth.