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That's a fine point, the new trains after all the talk need to actually exceed people's expectations...they have been a long time coming, and this is from someone who can remember the current fleet being introduced back in 1977/1978 Dave

Sorry, I meant just lower level, not literally downstairs, yes..there is a lift there

Wallgate's platforms are downstairs from street level and North Western's are up, probably far too much logistically for the sake of a walk across the road.

that's the thing, as I said in my original post i grew up with in a house where the back gate was only maybe 20 feet to a busy railway line, and yes, you don't notice the trains, in fact you notice the quiet more when they were ever off, but to have that structure right at the bottom of my...

I was sitting in front of the keyboard and for the life of me couldn't work out the term I wanted, glad to be corrected though Dave

as others have already said they clearly do, when I wait for my bus at Aintree station even over the noise of a very busy road they are clearly audible, so on a quiet station they will be even clearer

thing is, and bearing in mind I grew up with what's now the Merseyrail Liverpool to Southport line immediately at the back of our yard, is that you don't notice even the noise or the movement of the trains...the houses mentioned in the article had a railway line there, so like me they probably...

the residents whose house back onto the site have not exactly adhered themselves to the local press, who may well have taken some artistic licence, or not, when one of the quotes regarding the building works back in November were compared to the Somme Dave

You can certainly see the guy's opinion and can for sure see why he is less than pleased, but surely during all the consultations he would have known that something would have been going either there, or at the very least, very close to there. Dave...

so even the fuel to run some of the railways is brought by road to fill the fuel tanks next to the line??, stranger and stranger and the repair yeards have no rail access Dave

thanks, that makes sense Dave

They don't look like preserved stock, there have been few FGW old inter city style carriages on the M6 recently Dave

It's puzzled me for a while, but I do a lot of motorway driving in my job and quite often see either single carriages or freight locos on the back of low loaders, so my question is, why can't they be driven to where they are going as there surely must be rail lines at the other end? Any...