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Personally I prefer open carriages providing a good view of the countryside or particular parts of the heritage railway; stations, sidings, engine sheds, lineside features etc.. Whether the train is hauled by a steam engine or a diesel doesn't matter. A DMU is usually ideal for this purpose...

Search for the Transdev Coastliner for bus services to get to Pickering, Goathland and Whitby from Leeds, York, Malton and Scarborough.

Here is a picture showing the protective wooden casing around the live rail with an OS surveyor standing next to it and looking almost oblivious to the situation. His minder seems to be paying a bit more attention to what is going on. The location is just south of Radcliffe Central station on...

This photograph shows the transition from the overhead gantries to the wooden pylons alongside the tracks. The telegraph wires are on the left.

And here is a picture of the overhead gantries on the viaduct. Why did they need so many wires? These continued on wooden pylons alongside the railway to the substation at Radcliffe. Not sure hw they were taken over the Irwell viaduct at Radcliffe.

York had a Red Star poster on platform 9 when I was there a couple of months ago.

Many, many years ago I went to Arran from Fairlie Pier. That was bleak, except for a fire in the waiting room which I coudn't get near. We ended up walking around the town early in the morning. I have a recollection, which might be false, but we boarded the ferry across a plank.

Looking at an OS map and aerial photography, is there any alternative to rail for moving significant amounts of stone from the quarry ?

Bury Metro Line - the metro uses the later line through Prestwich (1879), runs along a stretch of the 1846 line and then the Bury Loop line (which was much later 1899) to Bury Interchange.

On the same line, does Skinningrove have an internal network ?. Sidings appear to enter the works.

Alongside All Saints Church in Otley is a memorial to the navies killed in the building of Bramhope Tunnel. The memorial consists of an exact scale model of the north portal of the tunnel.

Yes I agree with you, I was using old information. I meant there are 4 separate direct passenger routes over which the services run, so the services to each are spread somewhat thin.

According to Trainline : Entirely unstaffed, Ulleskelf Station is largely quiet, with relatively few facilities provided for those taking the infrequent trains. [10 a day, to four different directions: York, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull.] There are no ticketing provisions of any sort, so passengers...

Scarborough is quite quirky with all that scaffolding holding the roof up, but also the three platforms needed to host the hourly trains to York means one is never sure which platform has the next train.

You have a funny idea of what constitutes a mile, it's about 4 and a half miles from Dent to the station according to the Ordnance Survey.

Yes it is and I think it would be better than spreading development throughout the countryside as it makes better use of the transport infrastructure.

Since WW2 the idea of ribbon development has been prevented through the use of green belt. From the point of view of linking public transport to new build, a better approach is to build along the main transport routes of rail, bus services and road or concentrated in selected urban locations...

Rather I think , if it's wet in the west, go to Scarborough, if the weather is from the east go to Blackpool.

Perhaps not so surprising from Bridlington when you look at the difference in fares between the route via Hull and that via Seamer - £11.90 against £30.60. The Seamer route is not that much quicker, 20 to 30 minutes but requiring a wait at Seamer to connect with a TPE to York. And Seamer is one...

They may be some clues from the original station at Selby opened at the same time. This building is still standing adjacent to the current station though possibly altered by its current industrial use.