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In that case then yes, it should have been.

It was on a lead. But when anything larger than a small terrier drops a metre off the edge of a platform, the force is likely to pull the lead out of the owner's hand. Yes, if you're expecting that the dog might fall you could loop the lead round your wrist, but then there's the risk of it...

I would guess that the laser system is used to measure the distance to anything that might impinge on the gauging limits. So the fact that there's no OHLE at that location doesn't really matter as it'll be measuring the distance to things such as bridges and trees that are above the line.

The small WHSmith closed a few weeks ago. That means that it's all food and drink outlets on that side now. Maybe the plan is to put another food place in, but hopefully something that doesn't directly compete with the existing McDonalds, Starbucks, KFC, Pret or Subway? Certainly the queues at...

For a few years around 1840 Selby had two adjacent stations, the Hull and Selby Railway going one way and the Leeds and Selby Railway going the other. Then the Swing Bridge was constructed and the Hull line joined onto the Leeds line. The former station became a goods shed with the rails still...

The guard told me the other week that the Manchester to Hull service would be 6 coach permanently soon. When it's only 3 it's sometimes very difficult to get on at Leeds at commuter peak time. Personally I use the TPE service from Leeds to Selby because it fits with the times I go to and leave...

Once I came in on Platform 15 and went out through the southern entrance barriers, then on the escalator down realised I needed to post a letter, so should have come out via the main barriers. So I went out the exit into the Dark Arches, along to Neville Street and back up the steps by the...

Luggage rack is definitely an option on some trains. The suitcase one, not the overhead one obviously. On some it's the perfect height to hop up onto, though it's better suited to children and lighter adults.

I'm currently in London with a return Hull Trains ticket back to Selby for this afternoon. Looks like I'm only going as far as Doncaster by rail. But at least they have listed all the cancelled or changed services on their website (and National Rail Enquiries) for the week so I was aware of...

Indeed - a lot of the bridges on the entire Leeds-Hull section were made electrification-ready years ago, when it was previously expected to happen.

Gascoigne Wood looks sensible, and as I posted on Monday there has been recent work to build foundations for something large to be located lineside there:

Last Autumn a large platform was created alongside the embankment between Gascoigne Wood and South Milford (ie not far from the Milford junction). It's pretty substantial and has what looks to be be metal bases for some structure to bolt down to. Took Network Rail a few months to complete but...

The one I was on from Selby to Manchester this morning gave it a good long blast to clear it at every opportunity.

But when I was given the survey whilst standing, they had (admittedly a limited number of) clipboards and pens so we could fill it in, and also given the option to return it on our next journey. So either I was on a service with an unusually good survey person, or there's no deliberate...

I did the survey a few weeks ago just after leaving Leeds at 16:38, and I was standing in a vestibule area. About four other people standing nearby also did it. They gave us pens and something to lean on too, and said that if we wanted we could take it away and return it on a later journey. So...

Easy but surprisingly expensive. I've worked for years on both Clifton Moor and Monks Cross. The Park and Ride schemes are great for getting into town, but expensive if you want to go in the opposite direction for example.

Beams and traffic lights are used in some places - but as mentioned above, no use in places like this one where there's a junction right before the bridge. So a truck can legitimately drive right up to the bridge as long as it's turning into the junction rather than going under it.

Some locations do indeed have a beam suspended some distance from the bridge so that the high vehicle hits that first (and presumably stops). But it's by no means possible to do that for every low bridge that's at risk.

The proposal included building a new station on the site of the garage that backs onto the line. The original station is a private house and not possible to reinstate. As said above - they didn't get the funding, and didn't resubmit. I have many friends in Haxby, and not one is bothered about...

Yorkshire's first passenger railway station was at Selby, opened at the terminus of the Leeds and Selby Railway in 1834. The current station was built in 1840 next to it as the terminus of the Selby to Hull line, with passengers and good transferring between the two. Today the 1834 station and...