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My understanding (informed by not an ounce of official intelligence but just from reading here and there) is that (Aire/Wharfe-wise) Leeds - Skipton will become 6 car (2x331) all day apart from a few diagrams outside of the peaks) whilst the other parts of the triangle will become 4 car (1x333)...

I have seen the old sleeper map from BR days (pre-being grouped to leave from Euston) and note that there is a portion of the sleeper that links Leeds to King's Cross (and, presumably, northbound too). How did that work? Surely travel times can't have been long enough to merit an overnight...

Without meaning to disparage, my reading of the original post is "now that we can have some better trains, what routes would benefit from them?" and the answer is, of course, pretty much all of them? Having ridden on the FLIRTs they are better than anything we've got that predates the 195/331s...

Generally I'd agree, although it could definitely do with a clean and (if we're going a bit further) some more light through that awful amazon-warehouse-esque roof.

I remember during disruption due to a man in the signal gantry we were held up for a while on the Aire and Wharfe as they'd removed power from the overheads. They then changed it so that some were energised just not where the fellow was. It meant they let the trains in to disgorge in turn on...

Transpennine don't need First Class for their (standard) market served by the 185s. Most people on them are hopping from one city to the next - Liverpool / Manchester / Leeds / York / Hull (or Sheffield). Journeys of basically 30 minutes. Take out first class and put in more seats. Nearly all of...

Depends if you think the current cut-bsck HS2 is all that we'll ever build or if you think that Manchester and then Leeds (and thence maybe Scotland) might be back on the table in the future. If the latter, then restricting Euston now will massively add cost to any future project and probably...

Thing is that you could say this about any part of HS2 except (from my memory of it all) the bit that's definitely being built. The legs to Manchester and Leeds had the best business case and the bit from London to Brum had the weaker. So you could quite happily argue that restoring the eastern...

In terms of speculative ideas for the footbridge, it would be great if it extended further over to platforms 0-6 with steps heading away from the trainshed and onto the platforms. Having to come in on 1 and go almost all the way to the gateline to swing round and up onto the bridge to get to...

That's a real shame about the 2nd service to BDQ. It is really important in making the service pattern on the Aire Valley to Skipton a relatively reliable "turn up and go" service. The 20/10 interval between the resultant 4tph (plus the semi-fasts going up to Carlisle/Lancaster/Morecambe) made...

Idiotic question but how was it decided which platforms would be lengthened and which would be SDO'd? Was it just on peak time patronage or....? EDIT: I was rattling down Airedale on a 3 car sprinter this morning and it made me repeat this thought. As an example from when I was staring out the...

I always thought it was odd that when TPE has fallen over at Leeds (so most days) the announcements always stipulate that "your next transpennine express service is the XX:XX to Wherever" - presumably because the passengers aren't able to use Northern / CrossCountry instead to avoid having to...

No. Pacers were awful, are awful, and the fact that heritage lines now run them outside of a kind of "look how terrible things were in the 90s/00s/10s" way is terrifying. The idea of rocking up at a heritage railway on a Saturday and instead of the whoosh of steam being presented with the...

Leeds - Skipton are (from my anecdotal experience) back to being properly busy in the peak and are certainly busier off-peak than before. Given the plans for housing growth and whatnot, extending the trains is definitely a good shout - especially when they are lopping 25% of capacity off half...

Well, they released that so late (and it will be so rammed) that they achieved their objective. I'm now booked on a coach. Such joy.

This is from LNER's website on Sunday. Only 1 train each way between Leeds and London it would appear? That'll be a fun service!

I came with both of these and realised that I'm actually not sure what the "official" designation is? I think just "Leeds" and "Edinburgh" (with Edinburgh's other main station being simply "Haymarket" but I'm also pretty sure that both of those stations carry signage with "Leeds City" and...

Really hope not - on the train this morning we were leaving people on the platform with a 4 car 331 (although the train before had been cancelled due to "a fault on the train") down the Airedale. Are the platform lengthening works going ahead / do they have a timetable or are they just going...

If you've got an M-Card you can always tap-in on one side and then, at the other gateway, do a "[shrug!] Not sure why it ain't working guv!" at the barrier assistant and they'll let you through.

Just on an hourly Skipton - Leeds (as it's a Sunday) and some people are choosing to stand rather than fill in the middle seats on the 6 seater bays. It's ridiculous that this isn't a half hourly service as a standard. Still. On the weekday, losing 1/4 of the trains to Skipton, 1/2 the...