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It is a perfectly acceptable question to ask, and the answer is that it's a long way to serve a small place, especially given that any station would be on the fringes of Ripon due to quarrels with landowners decades before even The Good Doctor was born You don't even have the "regeneration"...

Another question could be "how many thousands of new houses will the people of quaint little Ripon accept as the price to pay for a train station?" The existing population of fourteen thousand is nowhere near enough enough to justify a long extension from Harrogate, but maybe the Government...

The current Stagecoach Yorkshire 86 serves Hutcliffe Wood Road, and Archer Road, then passes the bottom of Woodseats Road on its route through southern Sheffield, all around half a mile from the suburb of Woodseats, (where Torville and Dean's skates were made for their Winter Olympic bolero)...

Agreed It's the equivalent of the Pub bore/ terminally online commentator who peppers their conversation with phrases like "stands to reason... Common sense...simples... How hard can it be" (often applied to issues like constitutional politics) On here it's probably the poor cousin of the...

Those is a good point, one that designers could consider Passenger spread tends to be better at Leeds, which has well used bridges at both ends of the through platforms than in York/ Doncaster/ Sheffield (where a central footbridge/ underpass means people mingle in one main area) Other points...

Option A. More 197s - pure diesel, poor reliability, but assembled in Newport Option B. FLIRTs - bi-mode, working very well on Anglia's varied routes, but not Welsh Which one the Plaid-run public sector choose may tell us a lot. Is the passenger experience more or less important than...

Agreed (other than I'd upgrade it to incredibly dramatic!) Most of these services exist in one form or another and are run with 195s, the only difference is that they don't say "Connect" on their branding I have many reasons to be critical of the state run Northern (mainly due to the cuts to...

With climate related problems affecting rural routes, I think I'd be very careful if I was arguing for transferring the maintenance responsibilities/costs to my budget so that I would have to find the money every time the fragile Conwy Valley line needed a few more million pounds throwing at it...

I do enjoy the tradition of threads that are essentially "<<thing in today's headlines>> justifies that thing I've been obsessing about for decades", I'm sure it won't be long until we see the same "solutions" (massive fare cuts, nationwide rail cards for everyone, copying whichever European...

The main benefit of lengthening would be if we accept that some diagrams will effectively be double sets all day long, and decide that having one train that length would be better However, from what I've seen of 800/801/802/807/809, I understand that those Hitachi units can only run in odd...

Obviously nobody is going to argue with cost-free statements like "comfortable seats and excellent window alignment"... Sure, nobody is going to argue against those in principle (only when they come up against other costs/benefits). However i really don't understand why, if you're trying to...

In fairness, they may not keep their South Yorkshire operations much longer, given franchising, and I don't know whether "non People's Network" stuff can be run from SYPN owned depots It might be a case of get out now, with this on the horizon (Unless National Express services are run from...

I read Roger Ford's very interesting article about the bus to Tilbury Riveside: https://busandtrainuser.com/2026/03/10/every-route-99-4-of-24/#more-87341 A decision was taken in the early nineties that (since BR wanted to close the branch, on the grounds that it was a railway built to serve a...

We've only mentioned the passenger numbers being above expectation (even though they are now broadly in line with expectation, after an initial surge, partly due to the line opening later than expected, meaning people had more time to adjust, house builders had longer to anticipate demand, the...

In hindsight, after the (high floor) Manchester and (lose floor) Sheffield networks opened in the early nineties, we should have used them as the template for further projects Instead, Nottingham/ West Midlands/ Croydon/ Edinburgh etc all designed and built bespoke networks, so there's no...