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Leighton Buzzard platform 1 on the fast line is accessible from the lift via always partially open gate. The western entrance to the station is via the other footbridge(no lift), there are steps and a openable gate to access platform 1. This means that there is no disabled access to the western...

Connecting at Tamworth on my regular Sheffield to Bletchley all too often means waiting 55 minutes in the bus shelter on platform 2. Advances permitting travel via London is preferrable and sometimes Stockport-but never Birmingham. I really hope that the Bedford becomes a stop on the MML when...

Rotherham Central: All Northern trains stop The 4 TP and 1 XC are non-stop A 'variation' but not uncommon non-stop visitor through Stockport is the TP Sheffield(03-ish) to Manchester and Manchester Airport, like this one

I wonder what the rules would be for a location which was on an embankment with tunnels at both ends, the potential of having two boat train expresses at platforms, two trains of chlorine and bromine wagons and two trains carrying nuclear flasks being shunted in and out of the tunnels. I forgot...

Thank you for correcting my error.

Chapletown to Meadowhall must be one of the most abused minor routes in the country for fare dodging and as such has more than the normal level of signage on the approaches, shelters and platforms. NR can refer to the thousands of successful Penalty Fares issued and failed appeals. Regular fare...

Arrived late in Sheffield an it did depart from Sheffield at 1402 with an apology thay the front two coaches(1st) had no accessible toilet.

Dispersal is the mostly likely outcome but becausr methane is heavier than air and will collect in drains, cellars, voids, subways, sewers, tunnels, basements etc, with the possibility of suffocation or ignition from motors, pumps situated in them. In some circumstances the gas might vent...

At Edgar Allen Engineering on Shepcote Lane in Sheffield, the manganese steel castings which I fettled and helped lay out in the yard in 1977-8 were parts of a 'switch' i.e. the junction was composed of turnouts and which were composed of switches. As they were cast the part in the middle where...

C.F Booth Rotherham, who own a large scrap business including in trains, goes into administration. The location is bounded by three railway and tram train lines and has its own siding. The firm also owns the Millmoor football ground, the former home of Rotherham football club. Rotherham...

In passenger service today to/from to Sheffield (arrive 1342 departs 1400 for London)

Being bilingual you will need to convert that statistical and irrelevant mush and its into a language I can understand. What does this mean in maths?: Decades ago our statisticians at the university, we estimated at least 3000 speakers in our English city city which would be equivalent to 300...

Creykes crossing on Moor Road between Thorne North and Goole on the East Yorkshire/South Yorkshire border.

Now clear of restrictions. "Duke Street Has been cleared for use Al services to resume normal service route. (11:06 24/10/2025)"

Sheffield Victoria- still in use in September 1973. I was on a service from Manchester which should have reversed at Nunnery to get to Midland. Escorted off the platform by torch light. We were abandoned outside Royal Victoria Hotel. The hotel receptionist asked a Taxi to take us(four 'foreign'...