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More space*=Calmer atmosphere=Less stress=Quieter. From South Yorkshire to London I always travel 1st. This avoids the increasing stress as claustrophobia and stress increases. On return, a booked seat in second will suffice as people become happier and quieter, the train emptier and the...

The AA says it takes 16 mins to cover the 8.4 miles from Hazel Grove station to Terminal 1. The AA says it takes 15 mins to cover the 7.9 miles from Stockport station to Terminal 1 Via M60 and M56 Stockport is 0.5 miles and a minute closer. But: Add on the 8 minutes train journey time from...

Please can Sheffield people trade their hourly direct link to Manchester Airport with half hourly stops at Hazel Grove. A bus/taxi direct to the airport from Hazel Grove would be faster and more convenient than any train(direct or not). Faster journey time between Sheffield station and Airport...

The map in the link shows that Gainsborough is next to the 'dead' centre of the Town. 1612378853 or Rotterdam Central- what a contrast.

I would like to congratulate TfL in their successful campaign to prevent people from standing in the way of others whilst on their phone. Studies have revealed that many those on their phone are trying to find their way are trying to find out how to make their connection work, get the app...

I briefly worked at Edgar Allen Engineering at Shepcote Lane, Sheffield where they finished manganese castings used for turnouts. Some were custom built but most were standard. I keep a look out for ones dated 1977 and there are plenty of them around on our mainlines. I assume some are also...

There are Yellow warnings currently in place for wind in Cornwall and Devon The more serious concern are the Amber warnings flooding for the Lancashire, southern Pennines, Peak and lower Trent

Sheffield/Rotherham: Speed restrictions between Dore and Stockport All tramtrain services cancelled and trains not calling at Rotherham Central showing *LB* on Traksy Meadowhall Drive flood barrier is up(uses former railway embankment) and nearby covid test centre closed.

BSC Shepcote Lane was part of BSC Stainless and was at the bottom, Tinsley Viaduct end of Shepcote Lane. The much bigger BSC Tinsley Park was part of BSC Special Steels and was at the top of Shepcote Lane and ran parallel to the western side of the Tinsley Marshalling Yards. It had an extensive...

Moorthorpe and South Elmsall are both in Weat Yorkshire but you could use the South Yorkshire rail/tram/tram-train/bus Rover £8 80( SYConnect+) via trains using Swinton/Meadowhall/Sheffield and then Doncaster,

This is getting confusing I have already said "There is no tradition of commuter rail services in Sheffield compared with other cities Urban stations were on valley floors-people, lived on the hills" in post 692. This part of the thread was about the Hope Valley line and commuting. Dore is...

A friend from South Wales was living in Sheffield. He went to Cardiff to watch Wales play Scotland in the 70s with some mates in the car. At the end of the day the Police in Cardiff were sweeping people off the streets and putting on trains out of Cardiff. They put him on a service to Sheffield...

The biggest problem with the railway between Dore and Sheffield is that it does not pass through the main centres of population and it dumps its passengers well away from where they want to be.

Hope Valley trains arrived at Sheffield station at 7.19 and 8.22 in June 1987 Anybody using the Hope Valley stations would be the heros of the commuter world, especially office workers. Sheffield station is not central and an uphill walk of 1-2km to all offices, main hospitals the...

By the summer of 87 Sheffield departures to Dore and Hope Valley had increased from: 5.47, 6.31, 9.32, 12.33, 14.45, 16.31, 17.31, 19.33, 22.25 to 6.04, 6.55, 7.23, 9.39, 10.49, 12.42, 14.49, 15.47, 16.35,17.36, 18.40, 20.27 I don't think there ever was a rush hour along the Hope Valley...

There is a certain way of doing things in the Peak which includes that prohibition signs are an extremely good idea for the tens of thousands of visitors who flood the area, but on a soggy Sunday in January when two passengers on a Rail Replacement need to get somewhere they will get it done...

The bus company and drivers are/were very, very local and very much on their own territory.

There was originally no path between the overbridge between platform 3/4 and Tyler Street B6082. It was mostly used by the more mobile and a short muddy steep track with a 3 foot jump down onto the overbridge abutment evolved. It was used mostly to get to Meadowhall. The blind corner and...

School trip drivers in older and smaller coaches-kids loved it.

In June 1987* there were 12 stopping services on weekdays, 10 on Saturdays and 6 on Sundays along the Hope Valley in each direction. Some where through trains from as I always caught them when I wanted to extend my Coast and Peaks Rover from Grindleford to Sheffield.