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  1. Monkeyhead

    91119: Returns to service and in Swallow livery too!

    It was on the back of the 09.58 Wakefield - KX when I was in the multi storey car park earlier. Guess it’ll be getting to KX any time now
  2. Monkeyhead

    Scottish Sleepers

    I doubt it will ever happen, but I for one would love one from Yorkshire to Cornwall - I love holidaying there, but the drive, with a trailer full of camping gear, is hideous. I've I could drive onto a van next to P7 at Leeds, get into a lounge coach for some dinner, then a sleeper compartment...
  3. Monkeyhead

    Leeds station improvement updates

    The subway is still there, couldn't be impossible to refurb and re-open could it? The other thing they could do is make an entrance/exit at or around P7 onto New Station Street. That would take some of the conflicting passenger movements away from the barrier line......
  4. Monkeyhead

    Famous people on trains

    Thanks for confirming - odd occurrence at the time, made even less palatable in the years hence
  5. Monkeyhead

    Famous people on trains

    Not sure whether to disclose this one, but I once saw Jimmy Savile in First Class on a Virgin Cross Country from Newcastle to Leeds. Two things stick in my mind from that, first was that he didn't seem to be the jovial character I remembered from childhood tv, he seemed, well, sinister (which I...
  6. Monkeyhead

    Calder Valley line improvement works

    Regarding Hebden Bridge, didn't they have the original lift shafts boarded up? Have the built brand new ones, or converted the old ones to be modern. I suspect it'll be the former, but the latter would've been nice (and easier? Maybe not I suppose)
  7. Monkeyhead

    Why are there no direct trains to Blackpool North?

    I'll find out in a couple of weeks when I take the kids to see the illuminations. Have a family railcard, and use the train as much as possible as I love a train journey, but no chance of doing this. £42 return (about 400 miles worth of diesel in my current car), 2h43m there, 3h36m(!!!) back...
  8. Monkeyhead

    ECML disruption 20/2

    I’m on the delayed 1E05, currently forecast to get into KX 195L. Crew have kept us well informed, and there was free water on offer in the buffet carriage (it’s a fair trek from the front of B), no complaining from passengers that I’ve heard, think most people have appropriate sympathy for...
  9. Monkeyhead

    Wrapped up carriage heading south on M1

    If it helps, I saw it on the M180, heading towards the M18 - I assumed it'd come into one of the ports on the East coast...

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