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The GC offers on the West Riding route appear to have paid dividends. Throughout this weekend all the Bradford services have been well loaded, some even execptionally busy with few if any seats available. It is notable that EC have taken lots of bus adverts out in the Bradford area highlighting...

TPE are planning to operate 14 services in each direction Man Pic-Leeds using 6 car 185s. on strike days. Services will run roughly 0620-1900. No services will oeprate on the Scarborough line which is the one line where there is no alternative to TPE.

As previously mentioned NH-Colton Jn would be a great benefit for diversions. The obvious add would be Micklefield-Hambleton and the short leg to Selby. Shorten the Blackpool-York and Wakefield-Selby trains to Leeds, with possible savings in DMUs. Extend the half hourly BDQ-LDS electrics to...

Metro have an aspiration to reopen it and run a Bradford-Sheffield. It would require quite major resignalling as Crigglestone Jn box used to control the Barnsley end. Would be useful for cement trains Dewsbury Blue Circle-Hope as they avoid the main line at Hare Park. Can't see any major use for...

The 144 refurbishment has made those units bearable, plus with the centre car they can soak up lots of passengers, so I guess an exception can be made for them - sort of. I have to concur as regards Northern's 150s, some are absolutely horrid. I feel like I am sitting on (a dirty) floor when...

Not entirely correct. The Bi-Di part is only between Mirfield East and LNW Junction and was put in to reduce the number of point ends and increase line speed over the junctions. If it was to be fully Bi-Di it would require a set of points at Heaton Lodge East to get east bound services onto the...

Thanks for the clarification everyone. I will brief her on the change in case she gets a guard who doesn't know the current situation - there is after all a bit on the ID card that talks about the number on the ID card matching the number on the travel pass/season ticket. Obviously, in her case...

As my daughter has turned 16 and is off to college I applied for her staff travel pass to continue. I sent in a couple of passport sized photos for the ID card as well. I was surprised to find that ATOC no longer supply ID cards and I was advised to go to any manned station where they would...

I agree largely with what you say, but the problem is that the city region idea reinforces the centralist patterns and only accelerates the demise of secondary towns and cities. If they could get away with it I'm sure Metro would be renamed Transport for Leeds.

Church Fenton must have been a major interchange station at some point in its history. Before the buildings were, disgracefully in my eyes, knocked down in the 90s Church Fenton was an imposing station. Was it the meeting place between different companies? After all the connections are not that...

Looks like one of GC's 180s has encountered problems. On Sunday 1D73 15.48 KGX-BDI was cancelled due to unit problems. Today 1A63 10.22 BDI-KGX and 1D73 14.48 KGX-BDI have been caped. Passenger numbers have been steadily growing on the Bradford route, I hope this doesn't turn into half...

The fifth path is, of course, already planned to be Leeds-Manchester. There is talk of a sixth path! Though goodness knows how they intend to squeeze that in. Anyway, how about a Crewe-Stockport-Huddersfield-Wakefield Kirkgate-Castleford-York. The real issue with the fascination with Leeds...

If a TPE was to avoid Leeds I think it would be a much better idea for it to be a York bound service. Those trains have a significant amount of people on board who are travelling through Leeds and are forced to suffer overcrowding due to people joining for quick dashes...

I've always thuoght that the so-called 'Ponte shuttle' (Wakefield Kirkgate-Knottingley) should run through to Goole - thereby connecting with Northern services between Hull-Doncaster. Places such as Whitley Bridge and Snaith are seeing large numbers of new houses, mainly due to their proximity...

Everything went just swimmingly. I had concerns about our outbound journey as we had a 55 min connection in London, but we arrived a few minutes early. coming back I left the gang in the Betjamen pub while I checked that everything was behaving at King's Cross. It was fine and a busy train...

TPE are running a couple of additional six car 185's Huddersfield-Manchester Pic today (Sunday) as Huddersfield Town are playing Peterborough United in the League One Play-Off Final at Old Trafford. A number of the usual TPE services have also been doubled up to six cars (and a four car 170 on a...

It's an interesting debate and one topical for myself. I'm taking a party of 20 from Bradford-Lille next week. To hire a small coach would have been by far the easiest option, but after a bit of digging I managed to get a rail return of roughly £90pp. I could have got this lower had the domestic...

The Bradford service is slowly getting there. The 06.51 and 10.22 ex BDI are generally reasonably loaded, the afternoon departure (was 15.22, it's now a touch later) is often very quiet. I can't see the northbound services so have no idea how their loadings are spread. The message of walk up...

Points failure later at Doncaster (north end of platform 4) further delayed several of those stuck by the earlier problems, platform 8 and 3 used to get around the failure (clutch on the points). Leeds bound service trapped on 4, Harrogate EC service came to the rescue of the Leeds passengers...

Many of you will know Northern's 'grand tour' from Selby to Wakefield Westgate via Bradford and Huddersfield. It's several local trips tied together to save on crew and units. My question is could it be an even grander tour? Since the new timetable change there has been a couple of times...