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The subway under Blackburn station is the main route from the town centre to the cinema complex. There are barriers separating rail passengers from through pedestrians.

Even as a 6-car, it can't cope with anything out of the ordinary. Sunday services are a joke & Saturday services are usually badly overcrowded. Going back to the footballing theme, it can't cope with Bolton's or Blackpool's paltry league 1 crowds. Manchester markets? Nah. any sort of concert on...

Isn't that just 21st century businesses in general? - never anything in reserve, no contingencies.

How much longer will 150s & 156s stay in service for? They're approaching 40 years old, noisy & polluting. Similar bodied EMUs are already gone or on their way out of service. Realistically, I can't see them going any time soon cos they're so numerous & concentrated in the low-budget franchises...

I'd second this. The Colne to Skipton road has always been very busy and very slow whenever I've used it, particularly the first couple of miles round Colne. It's a more direct route to work for me, but I rarely use it, instead travelling much further, over the M62 single point of failure, then...

Burnley/Nelson/Colne are currently a dead-end both geographically & metaphorically, in desperate need of some sort of boost. The M65 motorway ends at Colne & it's continuation to Skipton (the A56) is a single-carriageway road dotted with difficult to bypass bottlenecks (e.g. Kelbrook, Earby). At...

Maybe some of the cost is due to the mining history of the area? It was an issue around Bolton & will probably be more so around Wigan.

"The Fyra had a poor reputation for reliability. After a month of operations more than 5% of all trains were cancelled and less than 45% of them ran on schedule." Not too long ago, Northern & TPE would only dream of that sort of reliability.

The train in this instance had originated in Blackpool.

Straying off topic a bit, but both from the aromas I smell on my evening dog walks & anecdotal snippets from a friend who works on a substance abuse team, pot-smoking has risen significantly during the various lockdowns of the last 18 months.

Anybody know anything about this? Daughter & I were planning to catch a train from Chorley to Manchester this evening, but despite the train arriving at the previous station (Buckshaw) on time, it didn't depart from there for 64 minutes. The reason given on the screens was 'disruptive...

Norwich-Liverpool does twice, Ely & Sheffield.

Is there any scope whatsoever for reinstating a few west-facing bays at Vic? (e.g.lose a bit of the arena car-park). It'd potentially transform the usefulness of Vic.

Two options for interchange on the same route that are both awful but for opposite reasons: Salford Crescent: very narrow, busy, draughty platform with zero facilities. Bolton: it's a trek when you're only using one platform. When you're interchanging between two, it's a double-trek. I'd...

Best: Preston, particularly since they've added a couple more refreshment options on the platforms, would've said Newcastle if it weren't for its unintuitive (to me at least) platform numbering. Worst: Birmingham New Street for design, Manchester Oxford Rd for overcrowding.

Victoria for location. Piccadilly for facilities, interchange & daylight.

Our new Reel cinema in Chorley is across the road from the station:

Stirling has loads of cafes/restaurants/pubs within a few seconds walk. Stockport has a good cafe outside that I've worked from a few times, plus a Sainsbury's Local. Grimsby has a Spoons right outside of the door.

I think Cleethorpes (station) isn't that bad. Nice little pub, waiting room, staffed.

I'll second that, overall a very impressive piece of architecture. The bus station element on the ground floor is badly neglected though. Preston railway station is the opposite of this thread - a fantastic station let down by an armpit of a town.