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Absolutely fascinating and thank you for sharing.

Virgin class 47 when i was a kid. Not much else i can recall being withdrawn in my lifetime which i would realistically have been able to ride.

My 15. For various reasons. Economic 1) Woodhead 2) Leamside Line Socio-Economic 3) Curve at Burscough Bridge to allow Preston - Southport 4) East West Rail fully to Cambridge 5) Skelmersdale Link 6) York - Beverley 7) Church Fenton - Tadcaster 8) Leeds - Wetherby 9) Bere Alston - Tavistock...

When you look at those standard timetables it really does show how the railway has grown and the problems we now suffer with end to end journey times and delays.

Sheffield Victoria for me will only ever open as a two platform small scale station. In an ambitious world, 4 platforms followed by the council investing in the area but it is the opposite of the Moor and other areas of city so not much good. Very badly placed, my views on how this particular...

Great Central doesn't really follow the major freight flows in the UK so it would be difficult. It would have needed work to ensure it had links everywhere which would have rendered the project un-affordable in those times. Whether one day a freight only railway will actually be built is an...

:oops: I was about to respond with search those times in National Rail but then it occurred to me you mean years!