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It does. Some of the Manchester and Nottingham links from Sheffield are/were shown via Dronfield

By that reasoning a lot of other services will inevitably be impacted although the full draft timetables for them haven't been revealed. As an example the Sheffield - Doncaster services appear in Table 16 but not details of the various services beyond those points, like TPE South Pennine - or...

Can anyone explain how the Sheffield-Huddersfield timetable is caught up in the December 2025 review when it doesn't go near the ECML? On the other hand I can't see a timetable for Norwich-Livrrpool which uses the ECML hourly between Grantham and Peterbrough.

It seems that if travellers try to book between Sheffield and Manchester they'll find their quickest journeys show as hourly on EMR via a change at Grindleford. Possibly not too good an idea? It doesn't point out the 600m steep (possibly icy) walk between the train and the main road near the...

Woodhorn Museum is currently shut until 23rd January for essential maintenance, see; https://museumsnorthumberland.org.uk/woodhorn-museum/info-opening-times/

Absolutely. It has taken decades to get an hourly Sunday service into the Peak District. It's being well promoted along the Hope Valley, and increasingly popular, but seems to users that the railway industry is fighting against them. The only welcome thing is that we seem to know which train...

No posts since Saturday. Does that imply that the emergency Sunday timetables may have restored some semblance of reliability? On the Hope Valley line that means the cancellation of 1 in 3 Sunday services that had been happening for many months is recognised as continuing ufn. Far from ideal...

And still not operational, this time sewage problems, from The Telegraph; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/07/scandal-hit-snp-ferry-launch-stung-by-sewage-problems/

Hear hear. Even this modest proposal will be hard enough to achieve but builds on existing traffic flows that are constrained due to infrquency of services. The excellent Railway Data website at; https://www.railwaydata.co.uk/ Many hours worth of very useful data on there.

It's not going well today. Service along the Hope Valley has been disrupted due to track circuit failure, flooding and the adverse weather at various points along the long route. The bus substitute service from Sheffield to Grindleford was suspended although may now be running. Yesterday it...

Beef dripping. We had a joint of beef this weekend and no fat so no chance of taaty bread and dripping sandwiches today. 50 years ago there'd have been a layer of fat on the joint to provide the dripping that would have been kept for later. Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat...

I struggle to see how we can squeeze more paths reliably through the 2 track bottleneck out of Sheffield to the north and east. Part of that problem is the sheer variety of operators, traction types and routes concerned. But the disruption to get the necessary work done would/will be massive...

Curious that they'll be running to Sheffield next week when the Old Road is being more heavily used by diverted MML and XC services due to trackwork in the Sheaf Valley just south of Sheffield station.

I'd say it's a reasonably pragmatic view. Sorry, "fairly cheap" is a very vague pronouncement and that applies equally to both a line between Chesterfield and Stocksbridge and extending tram train to Doncaster - as it does to almost every other proposal of this kind. 10 years to complete any...

Quite! A missed bi-directional option that was ruled out before the public inquiry in 2016. One of the many hundreds of pages of evidence included a diagram that left enough in to suggest it was considered. If it had been kept in at least two 3 hour line blocks and consequent knock on effects...

I was about to write exactly the same! In the HS2 proposals I was intrigued to note there was expected to be an increased minimum journey time between Sheffield and Newcastle - due to elimination of this train, which used to be hourly.

But increases the chances of that unit being removed at, say, Derby!

I'm afraid feasible is a long way from practical and financially sustainable. Sheffield MPs, including Louise Haigh MP for Sheffild Heeley, promoted a bid to the Restoring your Railway Fund for the Sheaf Valley stations incliding Heeley, Millhouses, Beauchief, 4 platform Dore and new station...