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Bologna had nominally separate queues but nobody was paying particular attention to it.

I'd be surprised if Leeds-Scarborough wasn't viable as a through service, possibly more popular on weekends than weekdays but still reasonably busy. York to Manchester is also an important connection and given you don't want to be terminating one service at Leeds and one at York and you don't...

Certainly sounds about right. Any greater detail and you'd need to start asking where in the train you were for the total distance covered! Not a lot of use on board the train though, and you may get some questions if you appeared lineside :D

Pre covid a unit was certainly stabled in the siding during the day. Unless there was a movement into or out of the Bluebell, in which case the unit stayed attached.

Depending on how accurate you want to be, it will vary slightly if you went on the Reliefs under the WCML, via the High Level Goods past the PRDC or via the Through Sidings directly off the WCML slows to WEFOC. However with the schedule...

Edinburgh Uni has a shapefile format that you might be able to convert https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/2423

Agreed, travel between Lewes, Eastbourne and Hastings can be substantial expecially with college students. Also, unless it's changed since covid, it's quite rare for more than 4 to continue past Eastbourne.

That layout, while very nice, does seem a bit of a disproportionate response to the problem. Particularly the maintenance liability and the performance risk of having to cross trains over regularly at Weston Milton. A GSV of the station (https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zpx3xzT95iwUwZdGA) suggests...

For both of these all lines have platforms, so not quite sure where your new platforms are going. Pilning could arguably be resited rather than the old platform reopened. Polesworth should probably just have the money spent on getting the platform back up.

Well Okehampton has already reopened and Northumberland is well on the way...

A lot of these arguments are down to modern business management and accounting practices though, and being joined into one bigger company wouldn't necessarily mean that, e.g., a Manager's target to keep within his or her budget gets dropped.

That article does say it's specifically a life extension of existing assets, rather than a recontrol or upgrade of the interlocking. The level crossings may well have been a factor in workload, although I'd expect the line from Haxby to Scarborough to all be on the same workstation, rather than...

Please provide your sources.

From the tweet it appears it's good maintenance checks that caught the problem before a train came to grief!

On this occasion, I don't think it was broken up planning but more just the basic practicalities of it. As mentioned, the Alignment of the WCML and proximity to New Street here makes anything connecting into it basically impossible to achieve without destroying the functionality of the existing...

Certainly need them between Croydon and Victoria. Down to Oxted used to be fairly busy pre-Covid as well. East Grinstead is also a railhead for a reasonable area as it has twice the frequency of trains on the Uckfield Line but isn't as rammed as trains from Three Bridges or Gatwick Airport. Tbf...

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Electric_Railways_Company_of_London, referencing Day, John R; Reed, John (2008) [1963]. The Story of London's Underground. Capital Transport. ISBN 978-1-85414-316-7. I will happily accept a better source. I do not claim to be an expert. But...

The existing service that would serve this connection is hourly. With only 2tph on the Barrow Hill - Stocksbridge route passengers are not going to kick about at Nunnery for up to half an hour when they have better options, such as getting a tram direct to the station. The longer tram journey...

IN that case, why not just run a bus from Llandudno or Llandudno Junction on the road?

Fair point, will edit my post!