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The Tamar Valley Line doesn't have any retro signage unless you count the one at Calstock. Probably doesn't count but there was an untouched Wessex Trains totem at Bere Alston which was located that the Tavistock end of the platform, within the past couple of years someone has stuck grey tape...

I'd say sometime after Easter the rate things are going, as it should be getting warmer. The last time the line was shut was in 2023 and taxis were laid on - still managed to do the Looe Valley Line rail ale trail but with a heavily reworked journey plan which included the local bus via Duloe in...

Which makes me wonder why the Leeds to Southport service was cut back to Wigan in the first place. When it could and still should (in my opinion) continue to Southport, as we wouldn't have this skipping of stops on the level that it currently is. Maybe Northern should look at converting the...

Currently the South American nation of Paraguay doesn't have a functioning rail network after the system was closed, however they are plans that a section of line between the capital Asuncion and Ypacaraí is to reopen. Hopefully the rest of the line can be rebuilt back to Encarnacion...

I wonder if Nothern will readopt the Phil announcements? Given that at Brighouse when Celia is announcing (and expecially when TransPennine are on diversion), it becomes quite obvious when Yarm is annouced its not Celia's voice but another females. Whereas with Phil you wouldn't notice the...

Boxing Day timetables are out on the West Yorkshire Metro website and looking specifically as the First services - one interesting change is the Halifax to Todmorden service being ran as a 592 this year (in 2024 it was ran as a 591 but as the A646 was closed between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge...

The area needs to be sterile so not to contaminate any evidence, i.e any weapons that have been discarded can be recovered swiftly for finger prints and DNA samples.

Ravensthorpe railway station, is it now closed? Why I ask is because on the screens it states that services (usually the Bradford/Halifax to Leeds via Mirfield) are still calling at Raventhorpe. Yet on posters (in Northern's corporate font from the Office of Rail and Road) state the station...

The ITV Digital's Monkey is now advertising PG Tips! Speaking of mascots and puppets, I am suprised that GWR haven't decided to wheel out Westward and Television South West puppet rabbit called Gus Hunnybun for promotions in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset or Top, Sticky and Bottom out of...

I haven't seen it on a physical stop flag, but printed on a Yorkshire Tiger timetable from when they were running the Leeds Bradford Airport services was Yorkshire Television which is still going as ITV Yorkshire.

Better still simply get Dan Straus back into the recording booth and use the recording for both onboard as well as on station to replace the Celia recordings. Going to be great when Elland, Thorpe Park, White Rose, Newham and Blyth Bebside railway stations open.

Where's the money gone? Erm... wages, replenishment of fleet, consumables such as fuel, oil and coolant, shareholders and paint to name a few. I think the councillor should focus on more pressing issues such as to why Halifax, Calderdale's main town centre, doesn't have a swimming pool rather...

I think the last maps were produced in 2019 as I do have a Leeds and Calderdale one from 2019. The only other time that Metro produced any sort of printed map was when the Leeds core network was introduced (2022?) and two rounds of maps were produced, one with PR1 and PR2 listed with PR3 added a...

What I'd expect would be some formal agreement in place between rail operators and local bus companies in the event of a signalling meltdown or other serious issue, passengers would be able to use their rail ticket on the local bus service(s), to get them to their destination. Not ideal, but it...

Module 3b PCV driving test. Module 4 being the driver CPC.

True. I've noticed one Streetlite that has been running on the 548 (Halifax to Rastrick) in both the new livery and fleetnames, given the impending franchising in West Yorkshire I do reckon that there could be some local transfers depending on which depot is franchised with all the new/better...

Nope, just what was allocated to the driver training fleet.

I just don't see the point in repainting, especially in West Yorkshire when mayor dustbin takes over come 2026/2027 as the livery will simply be painted over again in a West Yorkshire corperate livery in similar stance to Bee Network. On the whole I do like the updated livery, I think its...

When I was taking my mod 3b test I did it in a coach, which was in my opinion too big especially for the roads I were taken on as they were too narrow but whilst driving I treat the coach as a decker by being extra cautious when it came to bridges and tight corners as the risk of any overhanging...

The issue with the X84 is that no matter what is done there will be somewhere that'll lose out. One solution could be for a reintoduction of a 784 that could run limited stop to West Park, then all stops (including running via Bramhope village, Pool and Burley-in-Wharfedale) to Ilkley (or even...