Recent content by davidknibb

There's quite a bit about all this on disused-stations.org http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/r/ripon/index.shtml

Well, if history had taken a different course we might be arguing for the Great Central, if the sometimes advocated Chanel Tunnel extension had been built. But despite several proposals, it never was built until much later. And the demise and closure of much of the Great Central took place in...

Many moons ago I lived and got married in Bradford. We had no car and used the railways for all long distance travel. I distinctly recall two named trains - The Devonian and the Cornishman - providing services of course from Bradford to resorts in Devon and Cornwall. In those days they both...

Danby on the Whitby-Middlesborough line. If I remember correctly whilst hiking on the North York Moors, there is no road access, only a track through a farmyard.

What about the old Cromford and High Peak route. There are regular trains to Cromford on the Derby-Matlock route. The High Peak route itself has of course be closed many years ago, but the walk up the old incline is strenuous and full of railway architecture. If you walk all the way you...

The number of platforms isn't really a good measure. The trains that stop might have 1 coach or 8 or more coaches. There may be 1 tph or perhaps 8 tph. (In each direction if it isn't a terminus.) Not sure how to properly make this useful, but I don't think platforms is the right measure...

Yes, although it's a long walk with bags if your arrival train and departure train both go from the A end. What's the point ?? Serves no useful purpose for passengers and seems to be there merely to irritate. And of course while 'regulars' will be used to it, what about the significant number...

The ventilation 'improvements' may have solved one problem are created another. The fans that assist the ventilation are about as noisy as an aeroplane jet engine. So if you are at a platform near a diesel train with engine running, the noise of the ventilators and train combined make hearing...

I'm almost wanting to compare new with old. For example Birmingham Snow Hill was beautiful, until politics and redevelopment got in on the act, and the modern Snow Hill is pretty awful. And as for New Street, it must be the worst main station in the country to actually be on the platforms...

I've found the 1887 OS map in the National Library of Scotland There is clearly marked a line from Cov to Leics going under the main line. It's marked as the LNWR loop line. Perhaps we should start a campaign to re open it. Going from Cov - where I live- to Leics as I used to do a lot is a...

Wasn't there one time - many moons ago, a rail tunnel under the main line at Nuneaton, at the south end of the station? If this is right, then it connected Coventry with Leicester, but without a Nuneaton stop. Or is my old memory playing tricks on me ?? And wasn't there more recently an idea...

The source of the freight disappearing i surely a pretty big risk. Obvious example being movement of coal - often from the minehead to the power station 1729006054 1729006203 And does mail count as freight. Thats going. And are there any newspaper trains left. Trains full of fish from...

Trying to even board a train can be a complete disgrace. Tried to get on the 1503 last Friday from New street to Derby about a 35 minute hop. it was of course XC from Plymouth to Edinburgh, and running about 25 late because of police dealing with an incident. There was a football stadium's...

Hull to name one.