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What is needed is a Reddish South to Brinnington Curve that would permit direct Stockport to Marple trains again. Perhaps extend it to Jacksons Brickowrks at Middlewood and make a spiral junction with the Buxton line and you could have a south and east Stockport circular - and not a tram in sight!

This situation and the accompanying threats are normal practice on this line, and a stain on the proper way to do railway business. I could have fallen foul at Rochdale yesterday. I rocked up to the subway barriers - wide open, no staff and needed a pee. So I shot into the platform loo and...

Ask the 6233 lot, Ian

All she needs is a set of new tubes - less than £50k - but Mojonnier & Co have no way of raising that at present so they have had to go cap in hand to Carnforth - wonder how long 6201 will remain in independent ownership now? Should have gone Brunswick Green Clive!

The rosters are there -but not a detailed timetable including a Ratty side trip , refreshments and connection from and back to Preston

I have managed to do a timetable ex Preston - weekdays - to make the most of the intended last few weeks of the 37s with a ride on the Ratty chucked in on their "red" days - works out at £37.00+ with food and travel or parking at Preston at additional cost. I will gladly send a copy to anyone...

Hear Hear!!! If I got my crayons out I could go MCV/Middleton Jcn/Werneth/Mumps/ Lees/ Greenfield and leave that abortion Metrolink where it runs through Oldham. That would put Oldham back on the Trans Pennine heavy rail map where it rightly belongs. If I had a real brain fart I could put...

What on earth are you moaning about exactly? :rolleyes: As you appear to be incapable of reading timetables :- Timetable 65 - Up - Mondays to Fridays GLC d 20.10 - last southbound of the night CAR a 21.24 CAR d 23.45 TPE ex EDI MAN a 01.59 I think even you should be able to see some 141...

If your only train to work or college is summarily removed and there is no equivalent replacement they might as well have closed the line and ripped it up. People build their lives on service patterns, so the destruction of links in the fashion experienced during blockades or as a result of...

What stupefying arrogant bollocks! Typical of the transport planners of today who haven't got an earthly clue about how normal human beings live! Are you really saying that a wait of over two hours in Carlisle at the dead of night is a service! I can comfortably drive home in under two hours...

It doesn't matter whether they do or not - what does matter is the cavalier attitude of public transport carriers on a busy route like this. People have built their lives and travelling habits on traditional stopping patterns but that doesn't matter to today's breed of transport planners who...

Take a look at the service pattern. You can get from Waverley to Manchester as late as an eight o clock departure - albeit a midnight arrival. On the west coast the last southbound is before 18.00 and so on down the line. You want a full day in Glasgow - fly or drive

Regarding my complaint about the destruction of the direct links between Tameside and the North East, I have received an email from TPE telling me there will be improvements that they cannot tell me about at an unspecified date sometime in the future. I am understandably somewhat underwhelmed...

Sustrans - spit - wouldn't give them the scrapings from under my fingrnails. Is Grimshaw still involved or has he cycled off to pastures new?

As there was a meeting in Glasgow to attend, the chance was taken to do a northern circular on Friday 15th Saturday 16th February. We took a taxi to Stalybridge as there are never any free spaces after about seven thirty and it is impossible to do an overnight pay and display in the TMBC car...

GNER was BR's Inter City East Coast, complete with Chris Garnett, allowed a little more freedom and encouragement than they had under BR and a bit more style with the interiors. they were intrinsically left alone to do the job and that is why they were so successful in public relations terms...

Wait until June and do Bute on the Waverley. Loch Lomond - sorry - I am just not familiar with the waterbus service but the preservation project Maid of the Loch is worth a visit. The train of course now terminates at Balloch Central - a fair walk from where the boats are based.

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #4 originally located in this thread. I made the mistake of going to the Grand Northern Q & A session at Hollingworth Methodist Church last Friday - sidled quietly in, paid my three quid and waited for an opportunity to speak. It came when Apethorne to Godley got mentioned...

There is but one pot of money - the money wasted on HS2 can not then be spent on the existing network - which is what needs upgrading, loops and slow lines re-instating - missing links building - the best example was amazingly encountered only two weeks ago when TPE diverted Manchester...

HS2 the biggest con perpetrated on the UK since - err well - possibly rail privatisation. It is of no earthly use to anyone who lives more than fifteen minutes from the stops being built and everyone else - yes - everyone - is diminished by being excluded from a viable national network, seeing...