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Well its obvious there has been bad publicty through sending them on buses,and it could have been cheaper on rail than £27,000,so he is correct!.

sounds about right.

But could they have chartered a train for less than £2,400? ,if not, your point is academic....

OT you make some very good points only to spoil them with rants about Gordon Brown!.You are quite correct network Rail has little option but to choose the cheapest mode of travel,that said ,it does look bad when the 'flagbearer' of the industry sends its staff by another mode of transport albeit...

I work on the railway,I'm not sure who does the thinking when it comes to these figures,but the numbers are far higher.As was commented by one Guard who went down the train ,on the North London line I believe it was,he said people were annoyed that they had to pay when they were so unused to it...

Thats odd,I recieved a letter from Lord Adonis's department saying exactly the opposite.I was making a seperate point about fare evasion and missed ticket sales affecting diagrams and planning for loadings because obviously,no ticket sale,no recorded passenger,but in the letter it says ticket...

And to tie this in with another thread,if every person travelling paid their fare.There are thousands and thousands who either deliberately or simply without being asked,do not pay their fare,so there is a double negative of less revenue whilst giving distorted passenger numbers...

'Without a railway',is becoming a difficult term to define,as I'm sure you,like myself,think of towns connected to the national network.If you use that definition you have towns such as Bury and now of course Oldham,not connected to the national network but served ,or to be served,by...

I'm afraid it does!:wink:

Yes but those very same people who moan about the 'nanny state' are the same ones who go running to a 'where theres blame,theres a claim' Solicitor when something happens,and what does the Solicitor say? ''they weren't warned or told to wear the correct PPE''.Its not the nanny state,its...

Rail is a far more attractive prospect than travel by bus.The numbers appear to bear this out,even more so,if you take into account the amount of pensioners that travel free on bus services throughout the UK.The Cumbrian and Cambrian coast services,for intance, have seen big increases because of...

Denton and Reddish South in Greater Manchester have a once weekly,one direction service,you can't get much more little used than that!.Tonfanau on the Cambrian coast is legendary for getting few travellers.

Longest for an Absolute Block box,I would guess at the 'Little North Western' route between Settle Junction and Carnforth boxes at about 24 miles.

Good one!.The line did indeed continue to Macclesfield and in doing so gave Middlewood,which is literally in the middle of a wood,two stations!,one of which is still open.Middlewood also gives its name to the 'Middlewood way' which follows the trackbed when the rails run out at Rose Hill...

Yes,the curve joined the Omskirk to Preston and Wigan to Southport lines.Burscough has two stations,one on each line,Junction and Bridge stations respectively.There is talk of electrifying the route so the Omskirk to Preston section would become part of the Merseyrail network.

A couple of oddities on this theme are those at Omskirk and Kirkby.Trains come in at each end of a single platform and then return back along the single line.The reason for this is that both stations are the termini for the Merseyrail electric network,but also serve as termini for local trains...

And I imagine you were told not to say you interested in trains when you applied for the job in case ''they think you are a Spotter''.I took this advice and although I got the job,it turns out the guy that gave me the job was indeed an enthusiast!.I'm not a Spotter,I am more interested in the...

It depends,it can be for a crew change so it doesn't clog up the main line or in my case our trains will go to a yard, empty or full, to await dispatch for its next destination when needed or when a crew is available.Marshalling in the traditional sense was carried out when loads from different...

All of which you have outlined,contributed to the decline of Tees yard.Indeed the same process is happening at Healey Mills.Freight and more pertinently 'wagonload' has declined dramatically since the 1950's.Tees became a hump yard,but they were obsolete by the time they were completed,and...

Yes,I thought that too...I seem to remember Creative Logistics getting a freight flow across the channel up and running and they were scuppered,don't know if they are still running railfreight or not....