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I can certainly remember stations on the ex-GC lines such as Leicester Central having the alternate edging flagstones with white lines, as late as the 1960s, whereas stations of MR/LNWR origin in the same area had continuous white lines.

I don't think the two remaining 7 car meridians would make much difference! The others were reduced in length to 5 car, with the 2 coaches released from each 7 car unit used to make 4 car units up to 5 car. So you'd need to re-form a lot of units to recreate 7 car sets, and for all we know...

I live in Loughborough and have done for many years. Kinchbus run a well-advertised and registered service named (well it is a Wellglade company) Sprint that runs all year round between the far west end of the University campus at Holywell Park and the railway station via the town centre. Travel...

Of course Burnley Manchester Road has only become the principal station in Burnley quite recently in railway terms. For most of the 20th century, the main station was Burnley Central. Manchester Road is on the Copy Pit line, and scheduled passenger service on that route declined to the stage...

There are also variations between the four mainline railway companies, some had a single sliding door for each compartment on the corridor side, some had a two-part sliding door (one part slid to the left, the other to the right). If this has any significance to the story, let us know which...

Though there are "cats on seats" still - think of Felix and Bolt at Huddersfield, George at Stourbridge Junction and many more, including non-railway cats who've just popped in for a sit down.

Well, SWR carry out their own maintenance at Ryde St Johns Road depot, where the staff have years of experience with ex-LU stock, and TfW contracted out maintenance of their units to Stadler from the beginning, Stadler use Birkenhead depot for this. VivaRail never had maintenance contracts for...

No it hasn't been reunited yet. Indeed there is an appeal under way for funding the installation of the next phase of reunification. What has just been completed is the renewal of the bridge that carries the GCR (N) over the A60 road, which will allow the GCR(N)'s connection to the Midland Main...

You're quite right that painting a 9F into lined black would be inaccurate. That's why the GCR has repainted theirs into unlined black and the post saying otherwise is either inaccurate or a typo.

Certainly by the time I entered the bus industry in 1971 this requirement had either been done away with or was generally ignored. Taking the very large ex-BET companies as an example, neither Ribble nor Midland Red had Duplicate, Extra or Relief on the blinds at all, Ribble had no stickers...

I can remember back in 1972, when I was an NBC Management Trainee, the one coach a day Blackpool-Glasgow express service had 104 duplicates on the returning Saturday of Glasgow Fair fortnight. At this period the number of duplicates permitted could be restricted on the licence issued by the...

Same basic problem at Preston and Derby. At Derby Platform 7 isn't protected against movements from the depot, at Preston there are no traps protecting other platform roads from unauthorised movements out of 7

I'd agree with this, and add that in the immediate post-privatisation period the Leeds service extensions were also described as an ORCATS raid on the Leeds-London and Leeds-Sheffield pots of fare revenue, the vast majority of travellers on these journeys found the all-day services of other...

Just thought of another now closed and lifted line I travelled on - the Liverpool Riverside branch.

Stratford-on-Avon to Cheltenham Lansdown Junction. Stratford to Long Marston is lifted, Long Marston to Honeybourne freight only, Honeybourne to Broadway lifted, Broadway to Cheltenham Racecourse - GWSR heritage railway, Cheltenham Racecourse onwards - Lifted. In Ireland - Claremorris to...

A few that others have already mentioned, but how about Filey Holiday Camp branch (using both curves - the third side of the triangle is very much in use of course), or Swan Village to Dudley (yes I know not all the track has been lifted but it is best described as discontinuous due to illegal...

Up to sectorisation, each region had its own supply contracts, so it would have depended on where the buffet car was based and took on supplies. But since Cadburys/Frys/Nestle/Rowntrees were distributed nationally, they seemed pretty much universal. I always used the individual pork pie brand to...

Although both are Wellglade group companies, Skylink Derby is not a TrentBarton route at all, it is licensed to and operated by Kinchbus, so should it be numbered in a TrentBarton series, the Kinchbus series, or even First Leicester's series (Kinchbus has a small shareholding in First...

Apart from the ones who had their cars in the Oxenholme station car park of course.

Thing is, these services (since privatisation) have never formed a significant part of the Sheffield-Leeds provision. They ran southbound at the beginning of the day, and northbound at the end of the day, almost solely to get HSTs based at Neville Hill depot to and from Sheffield at the start or...