Recent content by s'land

In the next 5 to 10 years it's planned to knock the Littlewoods building down and replace it with a glass building and create a new square in front of this new main entrance, so I'd imagine that the platform level can be redesigned when they upgrade the platforms back to 4 lines, I imagine that...

I was waiting outside of Euston Train station waiting for my grown up kids coming down from the hotel opposite, an Italian couple asked me a few questions, I politely answered them the best I could, next thing I noticed that I had a queue of three other couples wanting similar advice, I felt as...

Could they not increase the line speed (where possible) on the Durham Coast Line, would that not be cheaper than building a whole new line? Personally I think Leamside is destined to become part of the Metro network.

The council are building a dual carriageway from Nissan/Iamp (SSTC) all the way down to the Port of Sunderland. However cars are not planned on being imported/exported there but raw materials might, the real reason is to support the Iamp development which is intended for advanced manufacturing...

Do you mean a 25kV AC retrofit solely for that voltage or for dual voltage retrofit?

Sounds like a good idea, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

If places like Sunderland (any one of it's three MP's is certainly possible) swing to the Tories It will be for complex reasons, your argument about big cities staying loyal to Labour with Universities and teaching hospitals is flawed as Sunderland certainly is not a small city (a population...

At the time they said the line was blocked, it took us about 15 mins to go about 1/4 of a mile for some reason.

Me and my family were on a Grand Central from Sunderland to KGX and it reversed at Dinsdale a few year ago.

My son was booked on the sleeper last night from Glasgow to London, to be at Waterloo Network Rail offices, he booked into a hotel for an extra night through work, and traveling back down on the sleeper tonight instead.

When is the 6th daily return service starting?

I agree, the Durham to Sunderland route should never have been closed in the first place. I'd image it would be very well used, by workers, day trippers and people enjoying a day out pub crawling and other people going the other way for football.

Washington and Houghton Le Spring are part of the City of Sunderland so maybe should be deleted from the list as well.

Sunderland used to have close to 1 million NR passenger's before the Metro arrived, the amount of NR services were dramatically reduced, although we do now have 6 return services a to London however we lost TPE to Liverpool and a lot of local services to Newcastle. I think the amount of services...

If the ECML done something similar with different high speed alignments taking in the the large northeast coastal towns/cities of Wearside (Sunderland) and Teesside (Middlesbrough) you'd be talking about a combined population of about one million people.