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Does any one know of any sources of information and/or photographs of railway horse boxes used to carry race horses and polo ponies around the country prior to the 2nd World War ?. I am particularly interested in LNER services, but any information would be useful as I have not been able to...

I heard that fatalities of this kind are running about 50% higher than last year.

It's a little more complicated than that. Shortly after the L&Y took over the Dick, Kerr experiment, they converted the Holcombe Brook line to the side contact, 1.2kV DC electric service used on the Bury to Manchester line. In the book "Railways in and around Bury", Jeffrey Wells relates a...

How about a Nottingham - Leicester - Rugby - Northampton -Milton Keynes - Bicester - Oxford - Didcot service ?. This connects a number of quite large towns and cities for which there is no easy connection on the current network.

The existing hourly connection from the TPE service into the Manchester-Llandudno service is quite a good one. The problem is that this service stops at all stations and hence it is a bit slow. When TPE moves to Victoria it is essential this connection is maintained. However, it would be nice...

I wonder if any attention is being given to re-opening to passenger services using the ex-L&Y route from Miles Platting to Ashburys, including the disused curve into Piccadilly. This is currently a freight route. A new station close to the Manchester City ground and the other local sports...

Well if you don't see it I will try and help: it has rather amusing, micheal extracting, references to UK railways.

Rubbish. For a start it's American and it's about kids. Secondly it's musically inept and has no spunk. Thirdly, it doesn't feature York Station.

http://youtu.be/4sL4LcYXdoo Well I like it.

A 20 minute service from Castleford to York would create a very useful commuter route into York. Compare rents and house prices in York with those in Castleford. Thinking further about open access, a service could also run along the Calder valley into Victoria, Piccadilly and the airport...

I am not sure what the York - Leeds service would be post electrification, but perhaps cross-platform interchange at York between electrified services from Newcastle to Leeds (and London) is feasible. I assume that some of the electrified TPE services would start from the south facing bay...

Wakefield (including Castleford, Normanton), the 89th largest city in Europe, with a population of 322,000. I think improving East-West train services might do something for improving the economy of this former coal mining region. After TPE electrification, perhaps the residual TPE diesel...

That's true. Thinking a bit more about Leeds services, I wonder if one TPE service to Manchester Airport from the NE could be diverted to run from Church Fenton via Castleford and Wakefield. The difference in mileage is minimal. This would open up a new market, free an E-W path through...

It would be useful to have a direct, fast service from Leeds (or even York ) to Windermere in order to get to the Lakes. It's a right pig to drive to the Lake District from there and using the Morecambe train and changing at Lancaster is a real time waster, as is going via Manchester...

Does anyone know why this site is being blocked by Google Malware detection - Google states it has detected this site as a source of Malware in recent days.