Recent content by Standard 4MT

Yes the Facebook Group are closing, the Labs are no longer being built in Whitby, suggestion is now Scotland, the attempted takeover of the NYMR isn't happening and the Rillington to Pickering and Whitby is finished with to. Of course the NYMR and the Group Improving Whitby Rail Links are to...

Immediate problem with above "joke" photo of route through Pickering is you are not allowed to build "new" level crossings now, it must either be a tunnel or bridge over the line. There is a active rolling program to close Level Crossings going across main lines in the UK. The photo used in...

Your link TomNick is not available to view when I click on it, Has it been removed or stopped non members from viewing.

A very good explanation. :D

Agreed Mark, and with the Potash mining due to be granted approval by the Council planners on Thursday that's another unit and three trips a day from Whitby to Middlesborough. Not forgetting the five trains a day each way to York and London from Middlesborough when Virgin East Coast start their...

This alternative of using the Esk Valley Line, a already up and running line, has been put to them showing with minimal investment this line could end up taking the same time or less, although longer distance, to get from their wanted start/finish points. Timings have be shown with a semi fast...

It has also been suggested by a "close" member that Pendolinos could run using the NYMR, I kid you not, they must be taking more than pot! No mention of overhead electrics just the tilting of train to go round bends faster at 40mph, yea OK. Running modern units on the NYMR section on doubled...

There is a as yet unconfirmed report that the owner of land has got outline planning approval, but no one so far seems to know what for, surely not enough room for housing except at station and sheds? (Which haven't had their lease terminated, but can't operate surely with no track?)