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A friend is travelling from Leeds to Manchester this Sunday (3rd April) and wishes to bring his bicycle. I've told him about the cycle storage in coach A of the class 185s, but given how crowded those trains are (if it's the usual 3 coach formation), he may find there are people stood in the...

It's a shame because it's a nice idea and pretty well executed on the whole. Most people who are inclined to cycle will already have their own bike. Many other people won't cycle as they perceive it to be too dangerous. So Bike & Go is targetting the section of people who upon seeing the bikes...

I will be interested to see the plans for a CrossCountry Voyager when they're done. Recently I booked a ticket on one from Manc-Oxford and was careful to select a seat that the seating plan said had a window view (Coach C Seat 05A). When I boarded the train however, I found that the only view...

The following figure shows the energy costs of various methods of transport. The high speed diesel train (full) is 10 kWh/(100 p-km) whilst the Boeing 747 (full) is 42 kWh/(100 p-km), so will result in 4.2X higher CO2 emissions. With the train there is also the future prospect of it becoming...

Unfortunately that possibility is currently under threat due to a housing development proposal. Here's my previous posting on the matter:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35376805

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-35321340 Surely given how far behind Network Rail are with this project they're not going to seriously consider ripping up those gantries which they've just installed?

The background to that press release shows 3 trains in darkness. Anyone think they look a bit like the Danish IC4 trains? Let's hope Northern are not acquiring them as their 'new' rolling stock from Danish Railways.

I didn't know that, thanks for pointing it out. It looks like there is a jump in the numbers from 2007/08 to 2008/09. That is well spotted, I hadn't noticed Blackpool but now I'm looking at it its growth is 1.664 mil -> 1.758 mil (5.6% increase) which is even worse than for Hull. As...

Their figures are: Passengers (mil) 2004/05 2014/15 Increase Midddlesbrough 1.121 1.351 21% Brough 0.291 0.374 29% So their increases are below the national average, but not as far below as Hull. I think the posters...

Over the last ten years British passenger numbers have increased by around 50-60%. Here are the numbers for a few individual stations. Passengers (mil) 2004/05 2014/15 Increase Leeds 14.734 28.848 96% Penistone 0.107 0.160...

Every day the one at Piccadilly seems to announce: "Due to today's wet weather, surfaces may be slippery. Please take extra care around the station." Haven't they heard about the boy who cried wolf?

The EMT service from Manchester Oxford Road to Warrington Central (nonstop) is timetabled to take 16 minutes. However, the return service takes 20 minutes. Does somebody know of a reason for this? Perhaps there's a downwards gradient towards Warrington, or the speed limit is higher on the...

Manchester Oxford Road It is quite an unusual looking station, having a large timber facade at the entrance. Once inside it feels a little run down, and has just one outlet (a coffee shop) which is remarkably little for a station serving over 7 million passengers. There are also only 2 TVMs...

For a long time I had the problem that the timer box would come up when I searched for a journey, but the journey results page would never load. I even took a movie of it and sent it to them, but their outsourced customer enquiries department didn't seem to think it was a problem. In the last...

I thought the industry thinking was that a more comprehensive upgrade of the line (signalling and linespeed enhancements) was required before wires are put up. Does this announcement imply that an upgrade will not be occurring?

Maybe, but the message of this petition is that railway corridors are precious commodities and should not so readily be disposed of. I visit the area often, and whilst Grappenhall, Thelwall and Lymm are lovely villages, the bus service is dire, often getting held up in traffic or by the swing...

There is a proposed development that would completely kill off any future attempt to reopen the Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway. The developers would leave Latchford viaduct intact, but level the embankment to the West and build 280 houses in its place. Can't believe that such...

Toton has been confirmed as the preferred location: http://www.nottinghampost.com/HS2-Toton-best-option-East-Midlands-hub/story-26899957-detail/story.html