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Really? Pull up a controlled signal in rear, reminder on, points checked (if applicable), clear understanding with the driver, job done! The only time I wouldn't consider it is if a level crossing was involved that required local control. I've had an almost identical scenario happen on my panel...

That wasn't my point, £8million may be loose change in the big scheme of things but for 500 yards of track but it shows how expensive development of even a pre-existing rail trackbed can be. Colne-Skipton has the thorny issue of bridging North Valley Road over the rail-line. You can forget a...

It shouldn't, but the Todmorden Curve at a cost of £8million for 500 meters of track on derelict trackbed demonstrates that this is not the case. With regards to roads serving out of town development, developers usually meet the costs associated with link roads etc, so there is often no cost...

Anything else whilst this fantasy chequebook is out?

If there were to be increased demand, you are right in that it is more likely to come from people in and around Leeds re-locating to cheaper housing. At the risk of making a sweeping generalisation, I have reservations about whether significant swaths of the population of Colne and Nelson have...

Indeed not, but if the link between Settle Junction and Carnforth had previously been severed, it would not be one of my priorities to re-open. Skipton - Colne goes in the box of "would be nice". However, there are many more schemes that are "essential to have", that take precedent, given...

Is there a huge market from Blackpool to Skipton? Enough to put 50-100 bums seats for 16 hours a day? I doubt it. There is a direct bus from Preston to Skipton which only takes 90 minutes and a single decker more that copes. Hardly a pent up demand. Contrast that to the Burnley Manchester buses...

Skipton-Colne will never happen. The Tod Curve saw to that! There is no way the area will get another multi-million pound investment. I also agree with those who say the business case doesn't stack up. The long distance journey opportunities are overstated as most of them can easily be...

Shut the doors and leave then. If you're not there by xx.xx.00, tough.

Did I say all guards were jobsworths? I said too many have a chip on their shoulder, I've heard the way they speak to a lot of people, assuming they are on the fiddle rather than either a) correct, or b) made a mistake. Naturally there are some excellent ones around, I'll give you that...

So that would be why (going back a little bit when I qualified :cry:) I got ranted at by a guard for asking for a YP return, a tirade of you must buy your ticket at a staffed station etc etc To which I replied "but I got on at the unstaffed station after that". I'd like to know what I'd done...

Very few people PLAN to arrive so close to departure time, but quite often circumstances largely outside their control lead to it. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Or about an 8 second run, if that. As for walking through FC, the guard actually waved me into that door, but then...

But where do you draw the line? Like I say I thought an hour to get from Park Lane to Marylebone, a distance of no more than a mile, would have been perfectly adequate. But through circumstances I couldn't reasonably be expected to forsee (an advertised bus service frequency of 7-8 mins not...

But the system has been changed, it wasn't always like it is now. It's been changed because a desperate industry is clutching at every last staw to increase performance figures. A train that shuts its doors at xx.xx.00 and departs at 00.00.30 WILL arrive on time unless there is a failure on the...

Unless there is a specific ban due a sporting fixture you will be fine so long as you show due consideration to your fellow passengers.

The London Underground seems to work reasonably well despite having a constant stream of passengers, so it is possible. As for your last comment, well, it would be wonderful to live in your world where nothing ever goes wrong, but the rest of us live in a world where unavoiable circumstances...

Well, for one thing forecasts are notoriously unreliable. There would be several ways of doing it. You could conduct a survey, but then the huge variable would be the question, and would people be honest? If the question was "would you consider travelling to Birmingham by train if it was less...

I don't think it be considered "fact" that it would have gained that amount of money per day. Just because somoene tells you they would travel if it was 59minutes doesn't meant they actually would. A long term study would have to be done of before and after figures, stip out any variable such as...

Certainly older trains were never really designed to be switched on and off, and the heating/cooling cycle will reduce the life span of an engine, especially big diesel engines. If this was attempted now with the age of some DMUs you will quickly find failures all over the network and a reduced...

They still don't ask for the odd minute of delay. Usually it's 3 minutues before a delay will be created, but I have know the odd 2 minutes be recorded. The only exceptions to this are speed restrictions, which have an auto generated attribution of 1 minute or more.