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I'm trying to find a list like that of the Chronicles of Napier for the class 50's. Does anyone please know of such a list and where to find it. Any help would be appreciated thank you.

According to the Northern rail Tour De France web site there are a number of other additional services running to/from Harrogate on July 5th to those shown above /below, including three through East Coast services in either direction. Go to the above web site and follow the York – Harrogate...

In the 80s a few of us were recording locomotives on cassette tape from Leeds to Wakefield. On one particular return to Leeds we went to the back of the train were it was empty to listen to the recordings and, wouldn't you know it so had one of the passengers who upon hearing the recording...

Not sure if this is the right place for this so sorry if it isn't . Nor am I sure if this has been reported anywhere else on the forum, haven't found any reference with a quick search so sorry if I'm repeating. It has been reported in the Bradford...

Just been watching the BBC 24 news service CH 80 Where it was announced that an east coast main line service and I quote "is trapped on the north York Moors!" It would be trap if it was routed via the moors.

" yes it does thank you"

A plane once ran out of fuel because of that "metric. not in a blue moon month of sundays"

Can anyone please help me. I am looking as to where the stock for the 1022 Grand central service from Bradford to London comes from. There are two services that arrive at Bradford but only one seems to stable over night in Bradford I have been through Bradford on few occasions and only seen one...

One idea to bolster the numbers of people taking up the hobby would be to create a video game that recreates the hobby as it was in the past, both steam and diesel. Where you have to chase locos around the country side to either spot or bash every member of each class. They would of course...

thanks for the update, I wasn't aware of this.

I don't know if this is of any interest to anyone, but I just got off a train at Halifax only to see a five car unit leaving with the late running 1329 Blackpool - York service formed of 156428 +158759. This is unusual as 156s haven't been seen around west Yorkshire for some time, let alone Halifax.

Firstly an apology, yes the context was left out apologies for that. Secondly, the timetable didn’t down load as it was meant to, apologies for that too. The context...

Trans Pennine Route upgrade New Journey Opportunities throughElectrification...

So that would end any hope of Golborne, Kenyon junction (renamed Culcheth parkway) and Glazebury bein re-opened then, along with the subsiquant service to the city and airport.

Listening to the transport minister speech yesterday on the eight billion pound investment of the railways I got the distinct impression that he had no idea of how the railways operate today. His ideas seamed to come from the 70/80 with plans for locomotive changes from deisal to electric...