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I completely agree. The spread of this "approach" to passenger management is the problem. It MIGHT make sense as a short-term response to Manchester Piccadilly's issues on 13/14 during the timetable collapse of pre-Covid (that I experienced first-hand, although even then I have questions) but it...

I'm very confused by this event and how it is becoming a but of a "thing" (this one is tied up with 200 years but I'm sure there was something similar under Shapps' stewardship). What does it aim to achieve? To draw attention to people that trains are now only affordable when there is a...

I'm (as the opening post said) not a fan of this shouting, especially because it often happens when people aren't over the line, they just happen to be near it. So rather than occasionally shouting at the odd miscreant, the staff are just constantly shouting at people who aren't in the wrong...

I got off the Northern York - Leeds shuttle on platform 7 the other evening, which then involves a bit of a schlep down Platform 8 to get to the ticket gates. Platform 8, as usual, had all sorts of bins, electric buggies, benches, people, etc. and so most people were walking on the train-side...

Keighley and Steeton on Wednesday were looking like this. Keighley was in the evening, Steeton and Silsden in the morning. No effort appears to have been made to do anything at all. Thanks Northern / mitie.

Nothing on the Airedale line this week. Absolutely lethal slip and slide to/from the trains on the days I tried using it. Meanwhile at Keighley, whilst the Northern platforms remained an exciting winter sport, the heritage railway platform in use had been completely cleared of ice and snow...

Hey everyone. I agree that it isn't going to happen, and that light rail etc. would be a way more useful invesfment for WYorks. There are many threads where the "could we do it?" issue has been very well litigated - we don't need another yet! The question I'm looking for you to get your crayons...

Agreed. I guess the question I'm asking is how would this august forum want to enable those journeys (assuming Bradford Central is built and Bradford - New Pudsey - Leeds is electrified). Would you choose to send the Skipton - Leeds services via Low Moor and Bradford Central on the way? Would...

These sum up why I asked the question. Through passengers from where to where? What would actually be changed by this project? I think that Mr SW is close to the mark in saying that you'd struggle to get any through flows that made sense, which I guess is what I'm looking for. So far in the...

I know that Bradford Crossrail is essentially Godwin's Law on this forum (other nominations include Edinburgh South Sub and Skipton-Colne), but one question I have never seen answered when digging through the archives (although correct me if I missed it) is what the proponents of such a through...

It was there last week. Scaffolding and a lot of fencing everywhere as they were painting anything that was bolted down.

Has the OP been to Switzerland? No one would claim they have a young fleet, yet they have a famously reliable network of old loco-hauled bits and pieces rattling around the place. The problem, if there is one, would appear to be a British one.

Yeah, so two longer trains a day merit a platform extension, yet 2 longer trains an hour at other stations doesn't? I just wish I knew the logic!

I'm still not sure what random lottery system they used to ascertain where SDO and full extensions would be used. I mean Kirkstall Forge's main calls being on the Bradford Forster Square services rather then the Skipton services (as I understand it) would mean that the extension there is only...

I looked around the forum without success on this, but surely the 68 and Mk5 sets would have been a slam dunk for XC capacity problems? Driver training aside (which, for XC, appears to be an insuperable barrier to be fair) would having a loco + rake service not have enabled a replacement for...

The main problem is the "2-car" element. No route should have to suffer such indignity. Might as well pop on a bus. But the lack of sears isn't a "are table or airline better" question, just the perennial "why are Northern's trains so woefully, inappropriately short" question. For which the...

I'm definitely on team table seat. The airline seats are cramped and claustrophobic when you're over 6'0, and utterly useless if you want to use a laptop. The table seats are instead quite roomy and I've never experienced any real problem with people sharing them. I find that when the train gets...

Exactly this. Rebuild the bridge that the railway got rid of and the problem goes away. It's a railway-created problem, so the railway needs to find a solution that doesn't notably worsen the outcome for non-railway folk. Either that or just do revenue protection on the train and catch all...

That at least explains the glorious absence of "See It, Say It, Sorted" on the Triangle services. I mean "Welcome to the Leeds train" conveys the same information as "welcome aboard the 1426 Northern service to Leeds" but in a much more friendly tone. It'll be a shame when it goes!

How about stations where the stagger has swapped? Looking at historical photos, Steeton and Silsden appeared to originally be staggered either side of a level crossing, with the platforms locations meaning that the trains stopped before they got to the road in both directions (there was also a...