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Thanks that is all very interesting. As I used to work at Trinity Street in the 1970's on the Parcels side. The Canteen and Offices where on the top floor as well as the toilets. Us clerks had to use a room on the ground floor. As long as they are used and can be used well, that is all I care...

From where I work I can see the upper section of the buildings on Platforms 4 & 5. There is a lot of scaffolding to be seen above Platform 5. I presume that they are going to renew the roof and upper level of the building. Can anyone confirm this?

They were a separate company but you are right they did have green and yellow vans.

Bolton certainly had a Red Star Office and it was still in use to some level in the early 1990's. I used to work in the early 1970's at Birmingham New Street Parcels. We used to send Red Star to almost all manned stations that could be reached by direct train services. This was the basis of Red...

Also don't forget the major station Clapham in Yorkshire. Also known as the 'other' Clapham Junction in the past before they closed the Ingleton line.

Really? They managed to get 4 tracks between Huyton & Roby, including getting more land so that they would be up to modern standard. Four tracking can be done, providing there is both the need and political will for it. Personally I think that it is a great idea, full of common sense and wisdom...

Blackpool South is further away from the Centre of Blackpool, but North is just as close to the centre as Central was. Centrals main benefit is was that it was next to both the Tower and the Central beach area. As well as being close to both Central and North Piers. Although even North is...

I really hope so, as I will be travelling via train & Metrolink on Wednesday, using my TfGM Bus Pass, which I am told is valid on all public transport in the TfGM area.

Thanks to all responses. It is making sense to me. It would be nice to see the line fully redoubled to improve the capacity of the line. I am really delighted to see all the redouble of the lines that were singled by BR under the direction of the Government of the time. Just proving that we need...

While reading the August copy of Modern Railway's, the article "New Services from Chester. (Pages 49 - 51). I noticed on the map on page 50 that it showed 4 proposed stations. These were 'Queensferry' on the North Wales line, 'Deeside Industrial Park' (such a snappy name) on the Borderlands line...

It is this sort of Health and Safety 'anal retentive' attitude which causes many Railway improvements to cost at least twice as much as they should cost. There has been no problem with 3rd rail electrification since 1904. But not now, perhaps they should put the same amount of effort dealing...

I just don't understand why there cannot be short extensions of the 3rd rail network. Ellesmere Port to Helsby, Ormskirk to Burscough Junction and even down the Borderlands Line to Wrexham Central. All these would make perfect sense to me, but obviously not to Politicians or so called Civil...

There was once a plan to extend the Preston to Longridge line through Chipping to Long Preston.

You know in the 1840's onwards they sorted all this out then, why are we trying to reinvent the 'wheel'. If say the Taff Vale Railway ran through Cardiff Central (Great Western) through to the Penarth lines, they used what were called running powers. They paid a fee for doing so, this was all...

This is my list:- Skipton to Colne Honeybourne to Stratford upon Avon The Waverley Route The Kinross route between Dunfirmline & Perth Workington to Penrith Newport to Brecon Barnstaple to Ilfracombe Okehampton to Bere Alston There are many other short routes that would make our Railway System...

I have just signed it, and it is up to 674 now. It is a real pity that this didn't become well known a few months ago.

Bolton Station is only a 5 minute walk to the Town Centre, that includes having to wait to get across Great Moor Street, because of all the buses that block the road with the new 'improved' Bus Station.

Just adding my 2 penny worth here. Looking at these three proposed station re-openings, I make the following observations. Beattock: Apart from the town of Moffat, there isn't much potential for traffic. But having said that, there is about the same as Lockerbie. When the station was closed, BR...

I also remember those room upstairs on what was platforms 3 & 4 (now 4 & 5). I used to work at Bolton Parcels from 1972 to 1977. The room where mainly for the Station or Area Offices. Downstairs many of the room had been converted into sorting areas for the various delivery areas that where...

You have listed Dalcross for 2019 and Inverness Airport for 2020. Which is it as they are one and the same place. Inverness Airport Station will be built almost on the same site as the old Dalcross Station. In some reports I have read the station name will be Dalcross (for Inverness Airport), so...