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If you are looking for (indirect) negative impacts of Heritage railways, look at Matlock. The needs of Peak Rail meant that the 2007 Sainsbury+Relief Road development ended up delivering Sainsbury an island of unopposed retailing. The retention of the rail line beyond Matlock station cuts off...

How about looking at the promise vs reality of the "traffic reduction" hopes of the WHR (which featured quite strongly in the grant justifications if I remember correctly) . There might be mileage in looking at the size of gap between the low fares needed in order to tempt car users out of...

Thanks for the explanation. Is there any published documentation on how stations are clustered? John

Can anyone help me understand why a search for tickets from the Buxton line to Windermere shows no Advance tickets from stations Buxton to Furness Vale, but Advance tickets available on the same train from Disley onwards? (Sample journey: to arrive at 1556 on 21/4/15). I can't imagine there...

From 19/5 EMT are apparently stopping a Derby-Chesterfield-Sheffield train each morning at Belper, and stopping one Sheffield-Chesterfield-Derby at Belper in the evening. There seems no difference in walkup fares whether direct Belper-Chesterfield services or doubling back...

There's another very fundamental bias - in that it only asks people who have chosen to travel by train. So they don't get to survey those who have rejected the rail option because fares are excessive, because timings are inconvenient, people for whom lack of reliable toilets are a deal-breaker...

Two thoughts Firstly - perhaps young people tend to travel shorter distances and these aren't the sort of journeys that you would bother to book online. Secondly, are some online ticketing sites still not accepting the sort of debit cards common among younger people? Realtime credit...

The confusion about Good Friday services is partly caused by the little-observed distinction between a Public Holiday and a Bank Holiday. Christmas Day and Good Friday are Public Holidays. Other weekdays when banks aren't required to open are Bank Holidays. Common parlance treats Public...

For anyone needing to travel before Off-Peak is available, the saving from a split at Sheffield seems remarkable: is this a temporary error in the database or the permanent situation? EMT and Trainline both show: Chesterfield - York: Anytime Return £62 (no Day Return option)...