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Order 11-car sets... take two out to strengthen other sets. :lol: (Yes, I know that can't be done (I assume) with the 80x sets. I josh.)

I'd say (with no insider knowledge) that any tram or tram train expansion will be electric only. That allows for two fleets at most and helps with the old net zero thing. £48m for the Penistone Line, although I haven't seen a firm plan for that either! There's City Region Sustainable Transport...

Thanks all. Honestly thought it was freight only, especially with the long single sections. Nice detour though; will have to have a night out in Sheffield and catch 1E73 home sometime ;)

(Please move if in the wrong forum. Ta.) Meant to post this over the weekend, but: last Friday there was a broken-down train at Meadowhall. The 1718 Northern semi-fast was cancelled at Sheffield, and the 1721 northbound XC service was to be rerouted, adding 15 minutes to our journey time. I...

If you're in Leeds, visit the Kirkstall Bridge Inn. It has a beer garden from where you can see traffic on the line to/from Skipton, Ilkley and Bradford Forster Square (and Leeds, obvs).

I thought that was the plan in the 2016 franchise. The pandemic might have got in the way, of course... Blimey. Wish Northern's looked like that! I caught one a couple of times from Sheffield to Leeds on the semi-fast in the peak in 2018. Those 3-wide bays with no tables and no legroom put me...

I know. And I know I'm being Captain Grumpy. Yesterday's shenanigans included taxi drivers getting out of their cabs to tell civilians where they should go to; a pair of civilians almost opposite each other out of the multi-storey; and thus the whole road was blocked as no-one could enter the...

I was told a couple of years back that the aim was to get spades in the ground by the end of the second mayoral term (7 years in West Yorkshire's case, not the usual 8 because of the pandemic). It's doable, if you assume that some bits are easy and obvious. You can crack on with those while...

I think a bit more work might be needed. There used to be a row of cones to stop people parking up. All they did was park up a bit further way from the kerb, almost into the opposite lane. Those cones have now been moved to outside the multi-storey, and the space used by taxis waiting to enter...

One think to note is that the last two 10-car units I've caught have had the rear coach locked out of use (once First, once Standard). There may be a theoretical limit to the length of XC services, for platform length; 4+5 seems to be fine throughout, ~212m. A 7- or 8-car 80x or an 8- or 9-car...

Indeed. A five-car minimum XC offering would be a step up on the NE-SW route via Leeds, with the four-car sets used for peak strengthening. Have caught a 10-car set twice recently (including this evening) where the rear-most coach was locked out of use, so 2x5 seems to be overkill.

Boo. It's been corrected.

Thanks both. Interesting... and weird. So the current drop-off zone will close? Feels like the arrangements change every 9 months or so at the moment!

Does anyone know what work took place this weekend in the short-stay car park being used as the taxi rank? Taxis were laying over in the Princes [sic] Exchange car park until this afternoon. I couldn't see anything from my garret, but it sounded as if white lining was taking place.

Oddly enough, have just watched S1E06 of Hamish Macbeth on iPlayer, at which a character alights from the rear of a 2-car class 156 at a station with a platform that was too short. Wonder which station...?

It is coloured. Black ;) The colour appears on the front of the tram; as tram train uses the heavy rail network there's a limited number of colours that could be used without causing confusion to a train driver heading towards one (so no red or green, for example). White was also a...

Have the east coast power upgrades been completed? Some LNER journeys are/were diesel under wires in parts.

Mostly, aye. The semi-fast Nottingham-Sheffield-Leeds is sometimes a 158 instead of a 195. I've caught a 195 to York from Leeds, last November (disruption between Leeds and Wakefield, so we had to go to York to go to London. The on-board said "The next station is... Garforth" just as we pulled...

If you take the Newcastle-York route and are choosing where to go next you could head west to Huddersfield and Manchester; south to Sheffield, Derby and Birmingham; and south-east (ish) to Doncaster and London (yes... I know...). In practice it doesn't matter that you wouldn't do the third of...

This BBC News story has some detail. It also has an interesting train interior, which I can't quite place... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj56v634zqno (Edit as requested by Mods.)