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My understanding from the recent Stakeholder events is that level boarding is very much on the priority list, although I don't think it was specifically shown on any of the presentation slides.

When in 1946 my doctor uncle and his wife took over his father's East Riding practice they moved into the old 6 bed roomed house in which he'd grown up. My aunt was a bit shocked to find there was still a pump behind the kitchen for water. Priority No 1 was mains water around the house. It was...

A healthy business will charge as much as it can to sell all it can produce, be it goods or services. Where the railway is having difficulty is getting everyone to travel between both extremities of all routes at all times of the day, every day. Fresh air transportation is inevitable but users...

I wonder how long it will take to lose the 21st century and speak of in the 2000s? 20th century, in the 1900s?

Having them all by 2027 may indeed be optimistic!

In the days before Travel cards, which became cheque guarantee cards that were combined with ATM (Cashpoint) cards the only way you could get cash from a bank other than the office printed on your chequebook was to buy travellers cheques or set up an open credit with the bank you wished to use...

At the back of a cupboard in our kitchen sits a box of 12 candles, 10 unused. They may have cost 17.5p, originally 3/6;) Probably bought during the early 1970s when power cuts were frequent and used for emergency lighting. The more recent fashion for decorative candles had barely begun...

My aunt had one. She loved it but it broke down quite often. Very basic but she'd never had a car and when she got it aged over 60 to her it was wonderful.

I was already planning the journey I booked today and had expected to be paying more so I am saving money. Not sure that's helping the finances of the railway but it's helping mine.

I've been highly critical of CrossCountry in recent times but I've been amused to be able to buy a pair of railcard return tickets from Sheffield to Newcastle for £50 - cheaper than I was quoted in the Rail Sale. 2 changes coming back using LNER and TPE via York and Doncaster reinforcing the...

I see 769450 and 769456 as running on RTT

See my post 96 above. Open again at end of month.

£2,600,000 by 7th March 2025 at 5:00pm? Currently 67 investors have pledged £49,215. That is such a big shortfall one has to wonder what Go-op's directors have up their sleeves. They look to be mature men of the world who must surely have sounded out supporters to be assured that at least £1m...

If Vincent Raven's electrification plans hadn't come to a halt after WW1 I doubt we'd be having this conversation. Shildon to Teesside electrified by 1915 with more to have come - 110 years ago. However the technology has moved on and practical battery options combined with wired sections seem...

That may be true. That's probably not true for Manchester - Sheffield. TPE organised a reasonably successful replacement service alternating between a direct coach or a train diverted to run from Sheffield via Swinton and Wakefield to Piccadilly. Inevitably in the hours with a direct coach it...

It's gone rather quiet about HSTs in Mexico and Nigeria. They've tried them but are they wanting to use more?

No doubt Porterbrook and Northern have a very good idea what's wrong with these units by now, or so you'd like to think. Were 319s anything like as bad? Adding the diesel engines and controls clearly adds complexity. Old age faults and scarcity of spares adds more. Add to that small fleet...

Sealing wax.

What is there at Pegswood to justify such stops? (Or most of the other small stations.) There's very limited car parking nearby. The station is very basic and on the fringe of the built up area. The half hourly 35 bus runs from Morpeth to Newbiggin and the hourly X18 from Newcastle to...

Today Northern's problems seem to have been points related but Hathersage users would have been very happy for any bus alternative. Very late, stops passed and trains cancelled altogether. Fortunately most Hope Valley residents have recourse to some form of car back up. Which brings us back to...