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I would argue that you could re-purpose the car park to the east of the station as a bay platform.

North to South - Salford area to University area and beyond

Easy, stepless access is lost in tunnels; you get off a tram you are on the street.

I don't think the trams will go underground; it somewhat defeats the idea. 3rd and 4th City Crossings hopefully. Manchester could also do with a north/south u/g heavy rail link to take the pressure off the Oxford RD/Deansgate/Castlefield bottleneck Similarly Liverpool could do with trams.

GMex had to be renamed A good job the stop at Victoria station wasn't called the Nynex Arena

Probably not if you factor in the environmental damage caused.

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I'm considering doing a bit of track bashing... Would like to do Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness then return to Southend Central. Then walk to Southend Victoria and get the train back to Liverpool Street Is it possible to get a return ticket that'll cover this?

They wouldn't have got far if they's started in Haltwhistle, the A69 posses a major problem after about half a mile

Much of the Trans Pennine Trail is along old railway lines including the Warrington to Broadheath line, lines around Stockport

I'm staying in the area of SW Scotland so was checking RTT for any unusual trains. I came across this train ... https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/N44090/2020-08-25/detailed .... run by Northern Trains! It doesn't appear as starting at Dumfries in the Northern Timetable, it is shown as...

Ah, I'm not sure but pre-COVID they were every 6-minutes; I think you may be correct they are every 10 mins

You beat me to it. My only comment is that there are more trams, they are every 6 minutes in each direction; if my maths is correct that's 20 an hour

I once boarded a Leeds train at Oxford Road, it was due to go Piccadilly/Guide Bridge/ Stalyvegas; but something had failed at Piccadilly and we reversed out and stopped just short of Salford Crescent before going forward via Victoria to Leeds

A virtual quarry is a railway location where stone (and other materials) are brought to and stored ready for use within the network.

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Yes, it is... there's a companion volume for the C&L called IIRC Smoke Amongst the Drumlins

...and since the Belfast Ferries have now moved to Cairnryan it would have been very useful if not lifted.

As usual excellent Roger; have you come across Anthony Burges' book "The Swilly & The Wee Donegal"?

Slightly off topic, but the county of Dumfries and Galloway has suffered the worst rail accident, worse air accident and worse ferry accident in terms of numbers of deaths. Or so I'm told. Rail - Quintishall - 1915 - 226 deaths Air - Lockerbie - 1988 - 259 deaths Ferry - MV Princess Victoria in...