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Stockport to Manchester Airport - 15mins by direct bus, 35mins by "direct" train. And yet people still complain when their rail link is disrupted...

Also worth noting that the other high fliers are the self-contained little fiefdoms of Merseyrail and C2C - both of which have no on-track competition, spectacular resources, and very little freight running in their area (I accept there is some around Tilbury before anyone shouts at me). C2C has...

@Rich D3167 - twelve miles of single line in total - granted it's in three different stretches. The signalling and single line stretches do still reduce the capacity as described. From memory freight diversions for engineering work tend to be almost exclusively via Brigg too - don't know if...

All sorts of reasons why TPE can't use Brigg line - some of them on the TPE facebook page. 12 miles of single line means 2 paths per hour in each direction max - which is all needed for critical heavy freight from Scunthorpe and Immingham. No traincrew route knowledge, no route conductors...

The routes that are closed are Doncaster to Scunthorpe and Doncaster to Goole. Doncaster (London) to Hull via Selby is still open, and Northern Trains are running that way instead (as well as the usual Hull Trains service to Kings X). TPE on the Manchester Airport-Cleethorpes route are...

Some interesting thoughts found on a blog by a geophysics expert - as YB says, we could be looking at a very long time: http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/

For those who can't access the link above (like me), here is another linky, to the Network Rail website. The cause appears to be slippage of the enormous colliery spoil heap next to the line, which is forcing the northernmost two lines upwards. Could be a long one...