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Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/hope-valley-capacity-scheme-updates.168285/ Leisure use of Hope Valley stopping trains may be running close to, and in some cases higher than, pre-Covid levels. Skip stopping is as bad as ever as I discovered on Friday when...

Mod Note: It appears that there are currently four separate consultations underway between CrossCountry, LNER, Transpennine Express, Northern and Great Northern/Thameslink relating to the May 2022 timetable change and their ECML services. Links to all four are below and some documents have been...

We took the A1 Tornado Pennine tour yesterday that started at Leicester, via York, almost Newcastle to Carlisle and back over the Settle and Carlisle via Leeds. Nice trip with very many on platforms, oveebridgrs,leaning over fences and standing in fields to watch. All safely as far as I could...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/remaining-emr-hst-diagrams.214572/ Perish the thought, but could they be being withdrawn early to send to GWR?

Twice recently I've seen passengers leave a westbound Hope Valley service at Dore & Totley and watch the train draw away from the single platform with no other trains in sight. Both were wanting Hope to walk to Castleton. Oops. A threesome were happy to go for a walk in the local area instead...

From Newcastle Chronicle today Plans for new hourly rail services from Newcastle to Birmingham and Coventry I'll stand back on this as Cross Country trains are currently running all but empty. They've axed most stops at Chesterfield because they can't keep to timetable even with fewer trains...

Not humans, rail services. This week we've seen the restoration of many services but there are still a lot of trains that aren't running to the timetables intended to operate from May. There's a £500m fund to restore old railways cut in the Beeching era, but what's at risk now? How many of these...

Ilkeston originally had three stations but all were closed in the 1950s and 60s. Allegedly it was left as the largest town with a railway line running through, but without an active station. After a determined local campaign a new station finally opened in April 2017. Estimated passenger...

Not sure if anyone has posted this but some interesting facts; https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1482/passenger-rail-usage-2019-20-q1.pdf Not least that passenger numbers are rising, eg "Nationally, the number of passenger journeys increased by 10.4 million (2.4%) compared to 2018-19 Q1...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/tpe-nova-1-class-802-2-progress.163414/ It may happen one day that the South Pennine route will finally get the 6 coach 185s promised for the last 2 or 3 years. 15 year old trains are seen as a step up on the Hope Valley route...

Gleneagles is famous for its railway hotel and three golf courses, all within about a mile of the station, probably unique in Britain unless anyone knows different. Many golf courses are near stations. Are there any other stations within a mile of 3, or maybe more, 18 hole golf courses? There...

Amazon seem to have agreed a contract to site their lockers at as many Northern stations as possible, presumably providing the TOC with payment for that position. The first was installed at Dore & Totley a fortnight ago and it's being used. As far as I can tell all the lockers will have names...

I think it was by about 1970 that the old coloured signage had been removed from stations to be replaced by clear black on white, that change having been progressive across the country, beginning in 1965. I grew up in the North Eastern Region with orange signage, but am too young to remember...

From the Williams Review, The role of the railway in Great Britain - Evidence Paper That massively overstates the position for local rail services outside the south-east where the figure is higher than 2% to make up for much smaller shares elsewhere. Nationally traffic flows to and from London...

Northern have just issued an update to stakeholders:

Sorry if there's already a thread for this, but it's well known that the use of Season tickets is falling. A new 26-30 Railcard has just been introduced ensuring that anyone up to 30 can get reduced rate travel, as can all those from 60 upwards. Other railcards are available for all sorts of...

Hello, what's this? This week only, or so it seems, a new departure about 5.10 out of Sheffield for Manchester Airport, 1B61. Doesn't stop at Stockport, didn't stop at Dore on Monday but did yesterday and today and is planned to do so tomorrow and Friday. Arrives Piccadilly about 6.00 and...

The current difficulties on Northern remind me of the days when the first generation DMUs ran between small staffed stations on branch lines, many of which were abandoned about 50 years ago. I well recall sitting at the front behind the driver on a trip from Newcastle to Carlisle in about 1957/8...

Figures are out today and many stations are showing declines, with a lot only marginally changed, either up or down. http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/39960/estimates-of-station-usage-2017-18-key-facts.pdf There's a link on that page leading to lots more statistics, including...

Two friends travelled from Dronfield to Headingley yesterday on the 9.02, returning on the 18.34. One got to the station in good time to buy his ticket from the TVM and his card was charged £11.95. The other didn't want to pay by card and chose to pay cash on the train. He was charged £9.10...