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Bit late in the thread and I'll confess I haven't read it all but picked up on the last paragraph. I can sympathise, definitely, I was once very much the same. The shrill whine of a child's voice in joy or distress was intolerable to me, physically painful, and many trips were spoiled, the well...

Like many others, The Woodhead of course. Lancaster to Glasson, I've done it by bike enough times, Likewise, Lancaster Green Ayre to Morecambe, and then back again to Caton. And last but not least, Thurnscoe to Cleethorpes on a Clog and Hatchet special c1955.

Might be wrong but I'm sure I saw that photo in an article in Railway Modeller, some time around 1990. I think the article was called Prototype For Every thing, and was about the engine shed being recreated in oo.

Lakeside and Haverswaite could and should have connected with Ulverston. A major loss that this wasn't possible.

Thank you. That frame without the body is exactly what I needed to see. In my imagination the interior was more akin to a guards van with a table and a stove, but I knew that couldn't be correct. This is something I can build with a tissue tube and a few bendy straws. Its not self powered...

Don't know where else to post this. I've built a toy Toby tram engine for my Thomas obsessed child. Its 1:24 scale to fit playmobil figures , and being built on a whim, its dimensions are approximate. Its big enough though to have internal detail so I've left the roof openable to be played...

For me, lakeside and haverthwaite railway, visit several times a year because its near, good value, the kids love it, and the smell of coal smoke. Heysham Branch, goes by my house, it needs electrifying and a freight service to the port and maybe support the bay tunnel construction traffic...

I know there must be an existing thread for the class 68 but I cannot find one, so please merge if necessary. Are these locomotives heavier than most, or just more clattery on the track. A pair visited Heysham today and they were the loudest thing I've heard pass on the line, except for the...

Just to add though, another potential journey that I think might benefit the area is a through train from Windermere - Kendal - Oxenholme - Carnforth (new platforms) - Morecambe (reversal) - Lancaster - Preston and beyond. There have been times I'd have taken the train to Kendal everyday if...

I'm not sure it would. The question is where to place it for maximum benefit, but the line doesn't pass that close to potential customers, and skirts around the eastern edge of the town. Others might have a higher threshold for walking distance to a station, but as the line leaves the port...

I'm a Lancaster graduate and a Heysham resident. The Heysham branch goes past my window. Before the bypass opened, I spent many hours in traffic fantasising about local transport solutions. A spur to the Uni Underpass with a fast link to the centre might have improved on the bus services...

Heres a taste of how a 185 might look without the yellow ends, take a look in this ssc thread. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=453586&page=22

Yes. As others have said. By means of road and fuel tax, but also vat paid on any product transported by road. Which is pretty much everything tangible. It's possible to be pro rail without being anti road. Both are essential.

There are some that might know more about the subject than you might expect. A friend of the wife confessed to missing the Deltics and I'll never forget the conversation with a female friend at uni about 'growlers', or class 37s, I was simultaneously impressed and disappointed.

There are a few images and vids of this kicking around the net now. Interesting to see it with warning stripe and stickers but no yellow panel yet. It suits it.

I have a foot in both camps. I hate being drunk and the inconvenience of unconditional honesty and falling over, but I also love a drink. Wine is the best for a meal or telly and so many uses in the kitchen Real ale down the pub A crisp imported lager on a rare hot sunny afternoon A peaty...

Money no object. Street running sections and tram-trains to bring towns like Garstang to the network. Reopen the woodhead, and Doncaster-Barnsley too.

Looks interesting. Is it really required though? I don't live in a town with trams, but I remember attending a conference in the 1990's on south yorkshire supertram (as it was called then) and the speaker recalled how on a visit to the netherlands, the Sheffield team asked how they dealt...

The multitude of National Bus companies all had the same livery :) Not quite the same livery, but all the Yorkshire Traction companies and subsidiaries had the variants on the same livery theme. And I was always puzzled by the Finglands buses in Manchester carrying a variant of the...

Perhaps you're not the average viewer. May be the average viewer watches more property porn, which is where I'm sure I first heard the term.