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Keywords: moment and 2040 I really, honestly, believe this will be fixed by 2040, and am reliably informed that the tooth fairy exists..

.. and, the developers have already planned and agreed to fund this? If not, who.. and why not just put the park somewhere less road-centric..

London is about 110 miles via M25. I don't see that cutting it for rail. It is also only in the right direction for mid-Wales and Herefordshire etc. You might as well have driven the container directly to Birmingham or started its journey north by going to Sheffield/Wakefield/Stourton. If...

Thanks - that's fixed. That arose because it also missing from the list on https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/tickets-railcards-and-offers/ticket-types/promotions/highland-rover/ - which is where the station list comes from...

There's a heck of an altitude difference - the airfield is 130m above sea level, the railway is about 75m. 55m difference - which even at 1 in 75 would take over 4km to gain ..! So, nope!

Thanks for the heads-up - the national rail site had switched a URL so lots were missing. It's now back up to date (with some more sanity checking to flag this next time)

I think the same. This is a terminal that is in the wrong place for the railway, and the right place for the road network. * off the mainline from Southampton (ie. Oxford-Banbury) - no easy route except via London from Southampton * off the route from Felixstowe and off the potential route via...

I think (with no deaf credentials nor experience on this myself) that this is different - in information screens what you read (in English) is not sentences, and largely not verbs - just destination, stops, time. Call that the Class 1 info. That's largely language independent - except for...

So, should we speculate now? Should we all be speculators now? Would that be helpful? The only organization that can say what happened is RAIB: the "rent a theory" TV (and internet ) pundits just won't do the groundwork, don't have access to evidence or data. They were pretty quick with the...

The Oxford Clarion in their weekly update published a link to an ASLEF article about the situation.. https://aslef.org.uk/system/files/2026-08/aslef_journal_august.pdf?ref=oxfordclarion.uk (page 9)

It strikes me as unhelpful. They are telling the public the railway is unsafe - whereas I would expect ORR, RSSB, and the HSE to be all over this if that were the case. It'd also be a bit early to be scoring points.. not knowing the reason for this. Is maintenance and passing out stock as...

Or a zones thing? It's in Zone 2, next stop north is Apperley Bridge is Zone 3, and next stop south is Leeds Zone 1. Or just bad data..

Went past it on the train a few weeks ago and thought - 'wow, that was a fail' - it's as isolated here as it was in the 80s..! It's very curious - from https://railalefan.co.uk/labs/flowstats/KLF/ 1 Kirkstall Forge Leeds 90857 118949 2287 326 +30.9 NT 2 Kirkstall Forge Apperley Bridge...

Shouldn't they have to prove that they can build one station before allowing them to progress to their second.. White Rose is asking.

Indeed, I was meaning historically - the much demonized TOCs.. obviously still a small handful are private for now. RMT has been one of the biggest proponents for nationalisation of them. At least the TOCs were/are incentivized to running trains. Not necessarily with enough seats, nor for...

Rather like the TOCs then. They serve the interests of shareholders. The only difference is that one makes money by running trains, the other doesn't. There is no alignment for the union and operating trains, except that if there were no railway, there would be no union - and its members make...

I've stumbled across some recent docs relevant to this scheme: In June - a public consultation on a new footbridge at Penistone ("at early stage") - https://www.facebook.com/BarnsleyCouncil/posts/have-your-say-on-proposed-penistone-station-footbridge-and-car-park-plans-were-s/1415362297290222/...

I'm expanding on the idea: solve the problem by removing train utility. You just broke all/some XC connections with Barnsley, Huddersfield, Nottingham, Lincolnshire, etc.

Just no.. If we close Sheffield, I think technically we will have solved all Sheffield problems - and at a very low cost. It is an interchange for far too many regional services into the XC network, as well as a big city.. but if we adopt the approach at places like Birmingham too, we might...

Not sure how solving Sheffield's problems becomes building out a tram train network, electrification, and reopening Victoria.. All of that is going to the billions category. That means it won't happen for a decade, and all decisions can be postponed, cancelled, refused, reinstated and all the...