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As the Ripon By-Pass has obliterated the original railway the nearest you could get to Ripon would be a station near the Dallamires Lane Roundabout. In fact,this would be no further from Ripon City Centre than the original station and would be closer to the residential development to the south...

Not really. Superliners don't carry many passengers on the lower deck (only around a dozen I believe) and you are removing the need for a staircase, so more of the length of the carriage is available for seating.

The York to Northallerton line was quadruple long before the 1950s.

As has been stated, GBR does not actually exist at the moment. The "GBR" livery is just a DfT publicity stunt and there is no certainty that it will be adopted across the board. In any case there is absolutely no money available to needlessly re-livery every train in the country.

The "distinctive overbridge" was actually the concourse where passengers waited before descending to the platforms to board their trains, akin to an airport departure lounge. There were similar structures at other large stations. For a look at the contrast between stations in the US check out...

Plenty of locomotives have been repaired and put back into service after fatal accidents, e.g. Harrow and Wealdstone. The loco involved in the Tay Bridge disaster was recovered and repaired, apparently drivers ncknamed it "the diver".

When I started work in the late sixties, the computer took up half of the second floor. If you wanted any information from it you had to submit a request and you got it the next morning after the overnight run. You could submit a late request but you had to do your own punch card.There was big...

The practice of adding numbers to things always amuses me. Before World War 2 there was no such thing as World War 1, Before Queen Elizanbeth the Second, there was no Elizabeth the First (anymore than we would refer to Victoria as Victoria the First). Between 1962 and 1966 nobody bought a Mark...

I think calling it "Okehampton Town" would run up against the Trade Descriptions Act (if it still exists). How about "Okehampton three quaters of a mile uphill from the town", and due south when you are trying to go east. Mind you, there are stations called "Town" which are further away (and...

Moderator note: Spit from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/new-station-for-okehampton.264118/page-5#post-7883017 It is questionable whether a town the size of Okehampton can support two stations. The new station is better located for the road network, has more parking and is closer to much...

In the USA trains are specifically designed to hit something, which is why heavy rail in the States is HEAVY. This is due to the prevalence of grade crosiings. Check out a US cab ride video and see how the engineer is on the horn all the time with the bell clanging in urban areas (unless it is...

The media were desperate for Burnham to win. If you turned on the news over the past few weeks all you would hear would be Burnham, Burnham, Burnham, (the full list of candidates is on our webiste), Burnham, Burnham, Burnham. The BBC's Chris Mason even had to insert the full list of candidates...

HS1 runs direectly beneath Barking Station, so just build an underground station there and, hey presto, direct trains to Stratford, "Problem" solved. Alternatively if you want to get from Barking to Stratford, take a bus.

When the Port Road closed the sleeper was diverted via the Mauchline-Ayr line, not via Kilmarnock, which came later (mid 1970's?).

When the post war New Towns were being developed provision of rail services was well down the priority list (they were supposed to be self contained, not commuter towns). Thus Stevenage had only the old station serving the original settlement until the seventies, Basildon didn't have a station...