Recent content by Bombolino

Well, I see they finally announced it today. As someone rightly predicted, the new service will leave Huddersfield ridiculously early, departing at 05.50. It will go via Dewsbury, departing 06.01 and arriving in Leeds at 06.16. Passengers will then have to sit on the train at Leeds and wait 24...

The station passenger stats are based on the number of "Ins" and "Outs" at stations, not the number of passengers passing through. Someone changing at York to get to Scarborough would not be included in York's figures. Also, contrasting York and Crewe, York is a major inland tourist destination...

The damage to the environment caused by aviation is absolutely miniscule in comparison to other factors. It's about 2%. Attacking aviation to fix the climate problem is not even going to scratch the surface on that issue. It's like the same pathetic gesture of supermarkets charging 10p for a...

I took the trouble to join this forum in view of some of the rather disparaging comments I read about Huddersfield from people who, in my view, simply don't know what they are talking about. I was born in Wakefield, but lived in Huddersfield for 30 years. I now reside in Lytham St Annes, so I am...

A lot of people have a lot of things to say on this topic, but to those people who used Flybe, it enabled you to do things in a day that would otherwise take two. In the past I travelled regularly from Manchester to Southampton, having started my journey in Lytham St Annes. The plane enabled me...

Personally, I don't think it has much to do with Huddersfield's economic future. It's just to do with convenience for people who live there. Changing trains with baggage can be awkward at the best of times, especially if you have to go up an down stairs or via subways. Often you have to rush...

Yes, sorry. I'm not very familiar with how to post replies, so I seem to have directed my reply to you instead of the intended recipient.

That's a bit of a fatuous comment if you don't mind me saying so. Salford and Manchester are different local authority administrations, but are geographically the same place. The distance between Salford Central and Manchester Victoria stations is less than the length of the last hole at...