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Whatever the cost was it all came out of the pot of money that the British Railways Board received to run the railways for that year. So it was not like it is today where a lot of things and staff are contract aligned so that a true cost, s are revealed for running Network Rail. Also who decides...

In the past the stations was built by B.R. staff in a lot of cases so the cost of building them would be a lot less, a lot of cost ,s would be a paper exercise between departments. The actual proper money going out of the organization would be to pay the staff and for the materials. Now every...

Read your rule book !

At present its a very staff heavy line between York and Harrogate with the amount of crossings between the two locations. Its easy to see why its been carried out as the plan is to run a more frequent service and the present S & T equipment must be about life expired.

At the present time you can,t even compare it to when its was Virgin as matters have changed in the world for everyone and are never going to be the same again. Just look at the cruise industry to see how they have changed since March 2020. It might mean that all the Train Operating Companies...

Scunthorpe West Marshalling Yard. ( behind Scunthorpe Station ) It was built and equipped with Dowty Retarders and a hump for shunting wagons. Its been closed down and lifted a good few years ago and is now reverting back to a new forest with the amount of trees etc growing on the land. When...

It was in the section form the end of the brick viaduct up to the start of the cutting heading towards Scunthorpe station. Not too far from the site access opposite the entrance to the crematorium if you know the area, it seems to have been affecting the Down Road to Doncaster.

Its also has Hull Trains on it as well and at present time it might be the only place they are still appearing on a departure board at the present time.

The pumping station behind Hessle Station was also a water softening plant too as Hull area in a hard water area due to the water been abstracted form the chalk layer below ground. Hessle pumping stations had 4 bore holes, two under the building and two more located up the yard. All 4 had...

It also shut down on the old electric sets after a while if you lost the overhead supply, lighting stayed on but sockets failed thereby upsetting the laptop and mobile phone brigade in a morning, when there batteries was going flat they had to revert to looking out of the windows instead.

It all depends which side you come from, Goole side 3 fixed sections before the moveable section or Hull side one 1 fixed section. Either way the signalman on duty stops trains so that you have a safe walking route from the river banksides onto the moveable section to access the signal box. The...

The turntable at York was installed after the Engineers Triangle behind York Station was removed to build the ROC Building. Someone had the bright idea that they would move the one from Scarborough until they found out it was paid for by Scarborough Council and they would not be best pleased as...

Not sure but think they are soon to be removed shortly.

Well said , thats my thoughts on the subject too. If for example they finnish at 22-00 and someone decides that they are going to end it all at 22-15 then there,s no one there then to talk them out of it. There also not PTS trained I do believe, so they can,t go on the track for trespass...

Somebody,s bright idea, agency staff and van that says in partnership with Network Rail. Who is paying / budget is this coming from then? In the end someone has to pay for it be it costed into train fares or the taxpayer.

The bridge in the background is within what used to be NCB Gascoigne Wood Mine site and to access it you need to enter the site from the road from Sherburn in Elmet Station B1222 Bishopdyke Road towards Biggin & Wistow / Selby direction. The you turn off this road and have to enter the site...

A couple of pictures taken while at York 27th December 2019 of the the old GPO lifts at North end of Scarborough bound platforms if anyone wondered as to which lifts we was talking about at York.

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