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(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...

Another “live from our correspondent” moment. Just as the delayed 1S51 pulled in to P5 at Sheffield… points failure! Couldn’t move northbound, so everyone detrained while the set is shunted south and then back through P2… where we should have been, were it not for a delayed freight train holding...

Evening all, Am currently sat sitting on 1S51, which is at Fitzwilliam, behind a Northern service which has been stuck behind an Azuma which has been at Westgate for an hour. According to announcements, a fitter is on the way to attend it. Would it have been easier to drag the unit to Leeds? Is...

Whoops. I did it again... I went to a wedding in June, in Woodhall Spa. It cost me £30 by taxi to get there from Metheringham, and £60 on the Sunday as I had to return from Lincoln. But I did spot there was a Station Road, and a walking route up to Horncastle, and since it was a really lovely...

Hello, A random thought occured to me while coming home from Sheffield on the 1718 semi-fast. It was quite busy, because XC aren't running the 1721, because of the engineering work between Chesterfield and Derby. Thus we have Chesterfield to Leeds passengers on board as well. XC are diverting...

Hello, I did some work on the Yorkshire Stations map from a few years back; someone had seen it last year and asked to use bits of it, it was easier to do the chunks as they wanted and recolour to their corporate colour scheme. Changing the colours allowed me to see some of the drawing errors...

Hellos, I've started commuting again from Leeds to Sheffield (joy), and depending on which route we take I pass through the substantial remains of Rotherham Masbro', Brightside and Attercliffe Road. There's even what looks like a platform at Parkgate and Rawmarsh (nowhere near the running...

Hi all, Wondering if some of you can shed some light of an issue I spotted yesterday. I raised it with LNER on Twitter, no response yet. My train on Wednesday is cancelled (obviously), so I went into the website to change my trains and reservations. LNER is running a two-hourly service from...

(Mods - please move if you feel appropriate, this felt like the most obvious sub-forum to me.) I was thinking about Tracy Brabin's comments on Wednesday after her mayors meeting in Manchester, and my own experience travelling from Leeds to Manchester yesterday. A 3-car 185 did the run from...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/transpennine-route-upgrade-and-electrification-updates-cp6.88054/ It's a moot point as it isn't happening, but if the four-tracking could be extended westwards from Huddersfield you could have simultaneous departures and arrivals...

Hello, Some of you will recall that the (Bradford-)Leeds-Wakefield-Sheffield-Nottingham service was in the Northern franchise in 2016 and has been dropped. It would, however, have provided much-needed end-to-end capacity, especially in the peaks, and would have been faster than the via Barnsley...

Hello, I was musing on some of the usual Speculative Ideas threads on extending services from Castleford to York, when I recalled seeing a line from Monkhill northwards to Ferrybridge and on to York - the route the Dearne Valley Line services take (took), except they were coming up from...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/rail-replacement-buses-during-transpennine-route-upgrade.226131/ My thought was that as rail replacement / engineering work is a thing that always happens, that a bespoke, dedicated fleet could be ordered and used for big-ticket...

Now bear with me, I know this is a bit of a stretch. It does make some sense, in that the use of tram-train at Leeds to relive platform pressure is already on the agenda. Leeds Council is already looking at pedestrianizing the City Square area, which would be the obvious place for any tram-train...

Hello, So: I was thinking, as one does, about what happens at Leeds if there’s no eastern leg of HS2. Leeds is pretty much full in normal times; we’re short of through track/platforms; P17 needs extending so we can have longer trains to Castleford, Barnsley & Sheffield; and while there’s space...

[Mods: please move if you think this should be elsewhere.] So: finally I get a trip to London from Leeds, and I'm on the LNER website trying to move my seats to where I want them to be. The return journey (1803, 2 September) is a 5-car Azuma (ack) but the journey down (1215, 1 September) only...

We're going slightly off-topic, but: Where's the greater need? More seats Leeds-Sheffield or direct connections Leeds-Birmingham/WM? Again, where's the greater need? Pulling out one TPE and the XC to give a better, more robust inter-regional service works for me (and gets you 2tph...

Oh... Lordy! Several years ago I wondered how many closed stations there were in Yorkshire. I did the research, then plotted it all out on a Google map. Which is fine but it doesn't show how those stations all connected together. So I drew the attached. It's taken me the best part of three...

[Mods: please move if in the wrong forum.] Hi gang, especially the ones who have passed through Leeds recently, I caught a train for the first time in 12 months and nine days last Thursday (to Wakefield, for an in-person interview, don't ask). As I was travelling from Leeds I followed the...

Hi everybody! I was randomly looking on eBay and came across someone selling a laminated-style station poster headed British Rail West Riding, showing lines and (most) stations open at the time. Given that it showed Baildon (reopened in 1973) and said "West Riding" (abolished in law (but not in...