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I thought not, but appreciate not everything is as black and white as "time v progress" - feels like the ECML would've taken about 50 years under this method!!

For the uninitiated, is 5 miles in 4 years reasonable progress? Seem like quite a long time for a relatively short distance?

It makes a difference to me - I live in NE Leeds, but choose to travel from York when heading to KX with work. Not only is parking in Leeds far to much like torture these days, the train (especially home when it's none stop to York) saves me about 20 mins, with maybe a 15 min saving on the way...

I was caught up in the disruption caused by this at KX last night - was meant to be on the 2100 to York, and after assessing the options, including a standing EMR to Sheffield with no onward connection, or a trip including a 1.5 hour stay in Manchester Piccadilly, followed by a trip via...

Yes, agreed, was replaced later on with a sleeper made foot crossing, one of the gate posts is still there for the entrance to the yard. But while I'd love to discuss the Cross Gates station and Wetherby line more (I've loads of photos and made a reasonable representation in Train Sim years...

Hopefully this photo will help (it's pretty old and I don't know the photographer to credit), but taken I assume with the goods line out of shot to the right, showing the two tracks to Selby/York on the left, and Wetherby on the right

It was never 4 tracks under that bridge - there was a reasonably complicated set of point work at the east end of Cross Gates station to merge the 4 lines into 2 off to Wetherby and 2 off to York. The third one under the bridge was a single line on what I imagine to be a fairly steep incline up...

Classic Leeds public transport. No tram for 3 decades, no trolley bus, centre of Leeds dug up and difficult to navigate, now cull the bus services and even the new park and rides. Ridiculous.

A 180 on fire? Noooo, surely not..... Hope it's not too serious mind.....

Yeah, currently in Grantham, full and standing, train being inspected by an Hitachi engineer. She’s proper fed up, but I bet the staff can’t wait to see the back of today….

My missus is on something just south of Grantham that has hit a deer and is quite broken apparently. She’s not had the best day out in London today

We'll be colonising Mars before Leeds gets any form of mass transport that isn't a bus.

Slightly OT, what's the story with the house next door to the signal box? Was it (is it) railway property, or just a coincidence? Can never figure out whether anyone actually lives there whenever I walk past

47216/299 - maybe celebrity is pushing it a bit, but somewhat notorious......

Obviously completely hypothetically (and this might be better in the speculative ideas section I guess), if you'd won £50m on the lottery and wanted to get it sorted, where would you start? Could you still get all the bits that have been taken over the years, would you just dismantle the thing...

It's not really that more a comfortable seat though is it (without starting the seat debate off). On the Mk4's, there was a marked difference in the standard seats to the leather ones in first. To be, the environment in First on an Azuma isn't wildly different from standard. When they were...

I took my daughter to Edinburgh last week from York and was toying with the idea of upgrading to first for a treat, but when I looked at the catering, it seemed particularly poor value for money. Extra £40 or so (pretty much the same via Seatfrog too) for a bacon sarnie and a couple of cups of...

I bet whoever was sat at that window seat got a nasty shock! :o

Not sure if this will work, but this (if it does) was us passing the convoy on 1E03

I bought one off eBay that had a modern plug on, and put it in the hall and challenged my 9 and 11 year old to ring my mobile from it, first one to manage got a fiver. Safe to say, the fiver stayed in my pocket! Was fun watching them though. As an aside, sitting on the bottom of the stairs...