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Chaos for an hour or two this morning when a freight service used the Dore loop and the points (apparently at Dore West but possibly Dore South as well?) didn't reset behind it. EMR 1R60 0549 Norwich to Manchester Piccadilly passed through Dore & Totley only 2 minutes late, near normal, but...

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Exterior colours. OK, accepting the pink/red - but those doors! Reminds me of the old cars you sometimes see driving around with a totally different colour door, bonnet or boot lid taken from a scrapyard to replace a damaged part and not resprayed to match.

But not totally incorrect with XC. I've certainly gone for a Seatfrog upgrade to get a seat. I know others who do the same.. In days long gone you paid to reserve a seat on busiest services. I think the fee was £2.

A big part of the difficulties with CrossCountry is that users in Devon will see it differently to those in Northumberland and it's the same for all other places it tries to serve. My wife used to travel from Sheffield to Newcastle once a week, always using the service via Doncaster whenever...

Nightmare. Very limited space at Leeds already for terminating trains. Uncoupling a north bound right time train is probably OK, but if delayed messes up platforms and paths. However that's minor compared with coupling up delayed trains in a busy station like New Street. Eating up recovery time...

I'm all for more stopping at Chesterfield when I'm going south. I'm also in favour of going north via Doncaster from Sheffield to York, Newcastle and Scotland to save 20 minutes. Running 4 coach trains should be kept to an absolute minimum, certainly not through the central core during busy...

In South Yorkshire land to the west of Sheffield and Barnsley runs up against the Peak District National Park and well defended green belt. Land around Doncaster is far easier to build on, especially to the south around the M18 and the airport. Doncaster's relative population weighting within...

Part of the difficulty here is that a large majority of our fellow citizens either never use the railway at all or only a few times a year. The majority on this forum either work (or worked) in the railway industry or have varying degrees of enthusiasm and interest in it. Most of my friends...

Maybe some of us need a new thread "You know you are old when...." I was just reminded of this old film marking the last days of Sheffield trams in 1961. I lived further north in those days but note new buildings going up in the 1961 film. I worked in one of them from 1983, it may be to let in...

The electorate in South Yorkshire should have received a leaflet including an election address from each of the 5 candidates. I'd only ever heard of 2, one being the current Mayor, collectively an uninspiring group - not a patch on Andy Burnham and one or two other mayors, but I digress. Lots...

Page 85 of May Modern Railways has a 170 mock up.

The front cover shows a clean example. I suppose we'll have to get used to it but the previous comment 'yuck!' echoes my first impression. It's probably the blue door.

Hopefully not criminal damage, but concerning that the cable was vulnerable causing such issues in the first month of operation. Having worked as a volunteer for the National Trust in that area poor mobile signals are very true! When Northern first intoduced parking charges at Grindleford the...

Certainly not daft given that at the current rate of progress it will be another 10+ years before Sheffield will be fully connected to make anything available. But by then opinions of bi-mode capability and progress on other routes may have changed preferred options.

The point I was making, a reflection on how long it takes to get fairly minor improvements done! It also highlights how expensive it is to change anything. But done now it would get almost 20 years use before the cement works is currently expected to close. That's because the Peak Park's...

Earles sidings look very much like, sidings. One is often used as a loop by freight trains and sometimes used to shelter special services but not normal timetabled passenger services. It would give more options if it were relaid to passenger standards. Resignalling west of Bamford is...

Hard to tell as comparisons are unreliable with Northern stoppers currently diverted via Stockport and Hazel Grove. Certainly hasn't, and can't, solve the issue with stoppers out of Sheffield being frequently delayed by the TPE Cleethorpes-Liverpool service. That could have been at multiple...

Come,come, he didn't pledge £500m to reverse any Beeching cuts. That figure was to fund feasibility studies and maybe with smoke and mirrors some expenditure that can be claimed to be restoring Beeching cut lines. Like the billions released from HS2. See the BBC report in 2020...

I don't know who's voice it was but since Dore & Totley got a 6 car platform last month we seem to be being warned that it has a short platform! Suitable for most other 4 car stations on the Hope Valley line when operating 6 car trains at weekends but not on a 3 car 195 anywhere today.