Recent content by david_g

Huddersfield may have had 8 platforms but by the end of the sixties only six were in passenger use: 1 Main up (Stalybridge bound) passenger platform 2 Sheffield bay 3 Kirkburton bay, after the Kirkburton passenger service was withdrawn used only for parcels Two through roads under the...

I concur. Bilbao is a great city to visit (in no particular order: football, Guggenheim, food, transport, Plaza Nueva on a Saturday night, architecture, Poza on a match day, old town...) I would recommend getting a Barik card for travelling around, covers transport all over Bizkaia and makes...

You do have a point but the wrought iron screen is quite pretty. The platforms are at first floor level behind it

Haven't watched the video yet but I would use the mode of local transport known as legs.:D Zazpikaleak/Casco Viejo(Eusketren) to Concordia(Feve) is about 300m and I think you can see one from the other, they are on opposite sides of the river. You would probably spend more time waiting for the...

Only seen Henry Ford geotextile before. Phew, I thought it was some mad scheme to put down artificial landscaping.

And they were rolling out what appeared to be artificial grass mats on one slope at Heaton Lodge yesterday. Has anyone else spotted this, is that what it really was or did my eyes deceive me?

Sleepers are down for what will be the up fast for about a mile from the end of Huddersfield viaduct towards Deighton and the track bed is ready for sleepers most of the way to Deighton. As far as I could see all the frames for the canopy extension at the Leeds end of Huddersfield station are...

I think you mean Brinklow rather than Shilton , the down fast and down slow merge just south of the site of Brinklow station which was where the Fosse Way crosses the Trent Valley line. Shilton is where the up slow has the 50mph speed restriction as it wiggles past the site of Shilton station...

I'm a fireman on the Welshpool & Llanfair. Been there and have several t-shirts to prove it. Sitting at Raven Square with a Beyer Peacock (our no. 1 & 2), departure time approaching; you've got two miles of climbing off the platform end with over half of it at 1 in 29; fire nice and hot and you...

Pity nobody looked at the labels on that map before they put it out. Golcar Viaduct has slipped two locations east of where it should be, which caused me to do a double-take trying to work out what they meant. I've always known "Wilson's Footbridge" as Nancy Bridge (and so does my Dad, who's...

I wouldn't bet on it. Can't remember when the second TBM broke through digging the second tunnel at Long Itchington, since then it has dug another one at Castle Bromwich (or is it two?). Work to complete the southern entrance to the tunnels at Long Itchington is still ongoing. One day we may get...

Some from Huddersfield, will have also picked up at some combination of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax & Dewsbury depending on destination: 04/07/71 Skegness 01/08/71 Chester 15/08/71 Southport 26/02/72 Weston super Mare 09/07/72 Llandudno 13/08/72 Great Yarmouth 11/11/72 London KX 12/01/73...

Thanks.

Do you have a reference for that last sentence? I ask because I'm in a dispute with a car parking company after parking in a private car park while using the station at Northampton (not the same one as in this case). As the alleged "violation" of their t&cs took place in July 2024 and nothing...

Heniarth on the Welshpool & Llanfair must be in with a shout. Finding the lane which gives access from the main road is a challenge - blink and you'll miss it. I volunteer on the footplate and other than at the gala weekend (it's a good photo location for the Banwy bridge) can't recall stopping...