Recent content by 55018ballymoss

No, it will not hold up trains. AHB crossings like that are activated by approaching trains. Anyone with a passing knowledge of the highway code should know never to queue on a level crossing as the train will not stop even if the crossing is obstructed, in fact there should be signage as well...

It happens more often than you would think. Last Sunday, 6D99 to Doncaster Down Decoy got to Hambleton Junctions and only then was it realised by the York signaller that the line between Hambleton and Doncaster was closed due to an engineering possession!

Do TFW still swap units at Shrewsbury for Cambrian services? I am sure I read somewhere that if the unit coming from the West Midlands was a 197, it is swapped to a 158 with ECTS capability at Shrewsbury but cannot find the article now.

I am sure there was a time a few decades back when all of the Lincoln-Nottingham services ran via Newark Northgate in both directions as a cost saving measure (so no extra unit or crew was required for a separate Lincoln - Newark Northgate shuttle). However, with the double reversal it made the...

I have to concur with deltic. This is simply another hot air exercise that seems to be trying to reinvent the wheel. Nothing earth shattering and nothing more than what should be expected to happen when things merge into GBR. Have we really lost that much common sense and knowledge of how to run...

It does depend on the speed and experience of the TOC Control from my own perspective. Some can be swift and have the train on the way, and some are a little less quick with the response. This is assuming that an operational incident occurred.

Is it just me or was Normanton station not a major station back in the 1960s? Surely the long platforms are still there but just need some TLC to be fit for use to accommodate six car trains? Or is it like Hellifield and the portion of platform in use is fenced off from the rest of the platform...

47703, long term resident of Wabtec Doncaster, has been dragged to Worksop by 57009. I have lost track of who owns 47703 and what are the future plans for it, if any? Am hoping someone knows

Liverpool Street is a legitimate idea as the terminal has many platforms to accommodate LNER but St Pancras? I thought St Pancras only had four platforms available and they are fully utilised by EMR?

Always nice when someone types before checking the timetable. There has been a northbound morning service with a balancing southbound service for many decades now…

Exactly what I thought! Whoever sent this out from NR needs educating that they use the 24 hour clock.

Oh I did not realise it was six. I thought there were two on the WCML, two (maybe thred) on the curve round towards the Barrow and Settle lines? 1732377419 For me, I always thought Hellifield would fit this category. Originally two extremely long main line platforms and two bays, one north, and...

Because the set of points affected are at Selby West Junction and have been clipped in reverse position until they are repaired to allow trains to run Selby to Leeds or York. The route towards Temple Hirst Junction is abandoned and that is the route that LNER and Hull Trains would use between...

Not as rare as you would think. Keeping through platforms clear is vital at Doncaster, very easy to create a log jam of trains if you lose one through platform. it sounds as if one or more of the train crew on your train did not sign via Selby, and so your train had to wait until the route via...

To boost growth on the new routes you need more than the bare minimum that the dead hand of the treasury via the DfT have offered. Six 196 units will quickly be found out as lacking capacity, and if there are any reliability issues, then cancelled services, will only serve to kill demand at the...