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It was only announced, as part of the Integrated Rail Plan (not Integrated and not a Plan), so that Grant Shapps could go on regional TV and say that high speed rail was still - just about - coming to Yorkshire. It was never a serious proposal.

Mr Gullis only became notorious/strident/opinionated/"telling it how it is" (delete according to your opinion about him) after he was elected.

I'm sure Greater Manchester Police will be able to spare 12 detectives to investigate.

Her Conservative opponent has said something similar.

Businesses whose products are aimed at, shall we say, the older demographic?

Impressive.

Things don't neatly fit into hard boundaries between different city regions and travel-to-work areas. It's simply not the case that where the streams flow west off the Pennines, everyone commutes into Manchester and where they flow east everyone commutes into Leeds. From Marsden there is...

In my experience (most recently the Stalybridge blockade this time last year), rail replacement buses only work if most of the passengers make alternative arrangements. The capacity of the rail replacement bus provision was typically less than 10% of the train capacity it replaced. Add to this...

"A lump of weapons-grade narcissium". Originally said about one B Johnson, but if the fedora fits..............

You might think so. I couldn't possibly comment. :D

I suspect that, once they had moved beyond the initial farce of having to disown their candidate for his comments, Labour may not be too unhappy that George Galloway has won and their own candidate hasn't. It would have been awkward to have had Azhar Ali as a suspended Labour MP standing...

I seem to recall the two Andys Burnham and Street, at a joint press conference, stressing the importance of a high speed rail link between England's second and third cities, but agreeing not to make claims as to which was second and which was third.

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And when might that be?

Ashton is peat bogs and shallow mine workings. I don't know whether ground conditions would be better with a more northerly route under Oldham or Royton. It's all a bit academic, as the announcement of a high speed line emerging at Marsden was made so that Grant Shapps could claim, on the day he...

That could be about allocation of passengers between different stations within the same group. The data shows 36,500 passengers between Bradford Interchange and London Kings Cross. It seems surprising that there should be so many fewer journeys allocated to the fastest though service between...

Possibly between 7 & 8?

Why is it considered necessary to have a barrier between platforms 6 & 7? This is something which occurred to me when leaving a late running arrival from Buxton on platform 10, then having to go through barriers twice to get to platform 1 only to see my connecting train for Huddersfield...

Given that Reach plc's awful, awful, so-called newspapers predict apocalyptic weather several times a day, every day, it just becomes background noise which people don't take seriously.

This is something I do quite often. It never occurred to me that I might be expected to buy the ticket for onward travel (i.e. beyond the limit of my season ticket) before boarding, when I can buy on a phone app during the 20 minute journey on which my season ticket is valid.