Recent content by 55Flyer

A lot of people (relatively for a village stop!) used the TPE 18:11 is say 10 to 20 every night to CLY. The new 18:15 is not that busy from what I've seen using it 3 or 4 times a week. I am surprised there are not more using it for the early stations above, can't really say exactly on the...

It does or did bother me, should I say, because ideally I would have liked to have seen a better express service from SHF to CLY - not it being removed. Not too long ago it was a 3 carriage express TPE then they dropped it down to 2 and it was standing room only on the 18:10 most nights...

I travelled on those for about 4 or 5 years before they retired. Dropping down through the bottom of Edale valley on that sharp right hand bend they really flew seemed to go faster than the newer ones. Rocking about all over the place. Never tire of that journey through the valley. The 18:15...

I don't know, but as I don't know the true numbers or percentages then neither do NR or EMT they don't, they have no way of measuring something they don't have systems in place to measure. I know commuters every week do not pay their fares from stations nearer to SHF as the Guard can't get...

I am being presumptious about the numbers, but the general issue is there. From observation most people buy day tickets on the train. One or two wave their season ticket at the guard. The days of ticket faciliities at every station are long gone, the loss of the facilities has brought this issue...

Obviously I don't know, I am generalising, change that to the majority, that I do know.

Northern Rail lose thousands of pounds a year through revenue loss on my commute alone! I know this topic will have been covered before but as it isn't going away here it is again. Having commuted on the MAN - SHF stopper for many years I have seen literally tens of thousands of pounds of...

The Double Curved viaducts at Chinley\Chapel Milton are enormous and quite spectacular. but.... the Victorian stone work of stations and viaducts and bridges is being badly let go. The number of small trees, bushes, ivy etc living in the stonework is growing through neglect. This is an...

I can't compare one manufacturer quality to another, I don't know enough about this side of it. If one make is far superior to the other that is a good point you make - no one would want to buy something for the same price that is vastly inferior. I was in the main concerned about the loss of...

I can't believe that we do not have the power to protect jobs in our country. I can understand trade agreements that cover goods and services that are not available here and have to be imported and the same goes for other countries buying our goods and services in the same way, but if simply...

I did experience that snowy night in SHF - the line was closed for a time last December 1st 2010 and part of the next day, I think. Some of the heaviest snow fall I have seen in such a short space of time. It didn't blizzard or drift just fell straight down. We finally left left SHF on a...

Two unit Pacers on the South Pennine MAN - SHF route via Edale. In extreme weather or even just heavy rain - some of the units rain in badly. In very cold weather in the Peak District, e.g. below -10c in last 2 winters they are absolutely freezing cold with their thin walls and very large...

A bit late adding anything to this and throwing in a bit of nostalgia via my first post. I thought that the Express train Chinley stops were a leftover from Chinley's station's distant and rich past when the station was something of a major hub for connecting lines going North to Manchester...