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The buses moved out ages ago; the taxis and moving to outside the station once the remedial work underneath the station is completed (2025, last I heard), and New Station street will be fully pedestrianised "for safety and security reasons" (said Network Rail). You might get them into the...

True, but if the journeys are at the right times of day it'll help commuters and school/college kids. We need to organise outings, make the services look as busy as possible so that they don't get canned once TRU is completed o_O

Tomorrow, the world! There have been TPE sets running via the old Midland route (leaving Leeds around 6pm), so I'm guessing there was some driver training going on?

You make it sound as if there's some sort of plan, as opposed to some random bits thrown together - which they've pretty much admitted. For me, it's a case of a tram (Mass Transit) from Leeds to Bradford first to allow Bramley to close and trains to be speeded up (slightly). If money was no...

Trams do have identifying numbers on them. In Sheffield's case, seven of them have a TOPS classification.

It's supposed to be the appropraite mode for the route/geography. A tram, very-light rail, bus rapid transit or something else. You're probably get a tram on the Bradford-Leeds and Leeds-east Leeds bits, but not necessarily on Bradford-Spen Valley-Dewsbury, and almost certainly not on the bits...

"Could" included tram extensions. None planned. Lots always proposed (including here) ;)

Happy Lincolnshire Day! "Finished" version, with notes, attached. Many thanks for the comments and suggestions, included where possible. I say "finished", there's probably more than a few errors, and I'm not as happy with it as with the Yorkshire one. Plus, I'm thinking that I'll only maintain...

Ahem. I should have surrounded my comment in <sarcasm> tags ;)

The only way GC could provide a reliable service with the 180s would be if they doubled them up, so that the one that worked could drag the one that didn't. Someone else pointed out on a different thread that that's not a problem - you run them as 222-only diagrams. Same as they did for the HST...

From memory, we stopped saying "MetroTrain" long before Phil (I say "we", I mean the TOC). Probably when that franchise started in 2004. I have this linked to from my personal website, as I video interviewed him after this photocall as a test for something we were trying to do on the Metro...

I thought it was all of them, to be honest. He didn't last all that long though before being replaced. https://web.archive.org/web/20110607040333/http://www.wymetro.com/news/releases/archive/09/090429customerinformation

Firstly, who said that (as in, what were their biases)? And secondly... 9% is not an inconsequential amount. If the cost is now £91bn (Guardian story) that's £8bn-ish that could be spent elsewhere. And thirdly (because I can't remember): do the quoted costs for HS2 include rolling stock?

"High Speed Rail" sounds a lot sexier than "West Coast Main Line Bypass". The latter is what was needed - and, will be what we get. The non-stop expresses would use it, and even if they only travelled at 140mph would provide a timesaving, and the only junctions to worry about would be at either...

Thank you Justin - This has taken me fours months, on and off (mostly off) so far. The Yorkshire map is still getting corrections, so I'd never say it was finished... I don't have Cobbs, but I do use (and have made a donation to, only fair) https://www.railmaponline.com/UKIEMap.php to check...

Stamford seemed quite easy at first glance. It was only when I ran out of space that I realised that it wasn't... Oddly, Rail Map online doesn't include a link between the two routes, which is be why I forgot to include it (ahem). Also oddly, the NLS side-by-side viewer for the OS Six-Inch...

Whoops. I did it again... I went to a wedding in June, in Woodhall Spa. It cost me £30 by taxi to get there from Metheringham, and £60 on the Sunday as I had to return from Lincoln. But I did spot there was a Station Road, and a walking route up to Horncastle, and since it was a really lovely...

The red text to the left of the driver's door doesn't look quite right either in the shared photo.

1V50 was a double-Voyager this morning, according to RTT. I was on 1V48, four cars, which the CIS said was leaving from 15B at Leeds but actually left from 15A. Cue much movement of annoyed passengers. Fortunately, I hit the platform just as it arrived, saw what was happening and jumped the...

XC needed the extra 221s at the May 2023 timetable change, especially with the HST sets now withdrawn ;)