Recent content by Yorkshire222

Thanks for the info everyone. I think my confusion is due to the canopies originally extending much further down the platforms and the ticket office building being somewhat hidden by them. With the canopies cut back, the building can now be seen. As in this photo -...

Looking at some photos on flickr from the 1960s and 1970s of Aberystwyth station I was wondering where the current ticket office buildings come from (on the current platform - not the Wetherspoons building) - they look like period buildings but don't seem to have been there when Aberystwyth had...

How does the UK network compare with the continent? Most of their tracks won't be built for very high speed, presumably HS1 is similar to TGV lines, but "normal" lines won't be. France and Spain have certainly been experiencing higher temperatures for much longer periods so what do they do...

The East Lancs webpage has been updated slightly (yesterday) and they've added "allocations will be available shortly".

A few from a foggy Bury in 2015...

Doubt if the large numbers are authentic and it's still not really grimy enough but it's certainly not in the pristine category...

With Eurostar shutdown for outbound trains, I've been wondering if this has affected railfreight. I don't know how this normally operates - is there some switch between French & UK locos at some point? It would seem an easy matter to isolate drivers in locos to ensure freight keeps running...

The numbering system seems as arbitrary as for steam locos. Class 44/45/46 started from D1 and class 40 from D200, perhaps 45s were ordered first though 40s were delivered sooner. 31s which were also one of the earliest started from D5500. Reading older magazines it's sometimes confusing to work...

99 seems an awful lot, what are their occupations?

"Part of what is needed is a reworking of the experience of the journey so that greater emphasis is given to the wider landscape and places served by the line, and less to the element of transport and the physical features of the railway itself." Don't the more successful/longer lines do this...

One thing that I don't think has been mentioned here is the future price and availability of coal. Production in the UK is likely to dwindle and the only supply may be from overseas - which is likely to be inherently more expensive. Coal is already quite an expensive fuel for railways, will they...

Just read an article in the April 1961 Trains Illustrated magazine describing the Severn Valley line. The line was still complete with a number of other branch lines coming off it back then. What a wonderful trip that would have made to travel all the way from Kidderminster to Shrewsbury! You...

Any idea what the cost of a Pacer is? With quite a number going to heritage railways they must be fairly cheap. As scrap they don't look like they have a lot of useful metal to them so they may be getting more from selling them (though I am no expert so I could be wrong).

How does the changeover work? Presumably all the staff contracts are transferred over as-is. What about the trains? Did Northern buy all the recent new trains or are they on hire? If the former they're going to want their money back. There must be other things that belong to Arriva too - some of...

One reason was that in those early times the electricity grid wasn't linked- towns had to have their own power stations (and naturally it was the larger towns that got them first). But even then the supply was unreliable. The only way for Southern to solve this was to build their own power...