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What is the present status of the Dryclough Junction to Greetland Junction curve, to the south of Halifax? Does it still see any traffic?

But that after the opening of the London Extension to St Pancras - in the early days, Derby was regarded as the "Up" destination on the Midland system.

That is more or less what I was getting at - the analogy with Derby and the Midland is particularly appropriate.

It is certainly goods news that Manchester Victoria is undergoing refurbishment. The low point surely came during the 1990s when the station was severely rationalised as part of a so-called "city centre improvement scheme" which was carried out at a time when Manchester was hoping to be chosen...

I have just been reading the accident reports for the two recent (or fairly recent) derailments in Summit Tunnel, and I note that "Up" on the former Manchester & Leeds line is west towards Manchester, whereas "Down" is east towards Leeds. Has this always been the case? It seems odd that trains...

Thank you for the very helpful reply; the photograph in question is a copy print by the late Paul Strong, which is one of several thousand images passed to the Lens of Sutton Association.

Any Lancashire & Yorkshire experts out there? I have a photograph of 0-6-0 goods locomotive No.565. This looks like a Barton Wright "ironclad" - is this indeed the case?

Yes, I think it is indeed Warrington Arpley stabling point - many thanks to those whohave responded!

That is highly likely - the photos were taken by Paul Strong during a trip around the Leeds and Manchester area, so it is possible that one at least of the views may have been taken at Manchester.

Does anyone know where these circa-1984 views were taken - is it just west of Leeds?

The terrain looks too flat to be on the Chiltern section of the GW&GC Joint Line - I am wondering if in fact it was a 'posed' shot for publicity purposes.

I have just found a photograph (in Holiday Haunts 1956) which depicts a Castle class 4-6-0 at the head of the Cambrian Coast Express. I did not think much about this at first, and then I realised that the train is running on a single-track section. This is surely not the Cambrian line - could...

I seem to remember asking a very similar question in another thread, but the situation has arisen again, in that I am trying to identify the three class '101' vehicles that made up set C814. As far as I can ascertain, the middle car was Trailer Composite No.59123, but I think the power cars were...

On Saturday 14th February, 1970, the Locomotive Club of Great Britain ‘Isis’ railtour brought a three-car Swindon Cross Country unit onto the Witney Railway for the first (and last!) time. The unit concerned was formed of motor brake composite No.W50727, trailer buffet second No.W59291 and motor...

I was thinking the other day about Gobowen goods yard, which remained open for coal traffic until recently (is it in fact still open?) I remember that there was a fairly primitive bottom discharge system alongside the passenger platforms, but would I be right in thinking that there was also a...

There have clearly been major changes in the railcar site - they say that " the old site is gradually being transferred over, often with lots of new material added".

Thank you for the reply to my question - I think the website I was looking for is the one provided by the Railcar Association - it does however seem to have undergone several changes (?)

I seem to remember a web site that was devoted to dmu history, and (if I remember correctly) it had a list of numbers. However, I cannot now find it, suggesting that it has either been closed, or experienced major alterations. I was hoping to find details of hybrid set P872, which was part class...

Sounds like a good career move - in my experience, teaching has been a waste of my education, and a dead-end job of the very worst kind.

The LMS "swapped stock" with the mainland during World War Two when a large number of passenger vehicles were destroyed in an air raid on Belfast - they simply changed the bogies.