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Shipley - Leeds is an easy one, id therefore include all Airedale and Wharfedale services. Bradford to Halifax and vv?

Is there any evidence of ‘Connect’ not happening, or is this just one of those internet chat/thread things that just snowball. If I remember rightly the 195s had pretty much been wholesale condemned on here just a matter of weeks before beginning service.

Can anybody explain why Hull (pop 260K) always gets the raw end of the service, I.e. stopped and only to Manchester, whereas Scarborough (pop 82K) gets the express and all the way to Liverpool services. Is it just inertia or the need to clock-face York? One would have thought an ‘M62’ service...

Possibly changed after timetable change? Was definitely ‘a thing’, and got paid out! Booked through employers third party system, but must just ‘scrape’ off nre or a toc?

A few weeks ago, I was on the 1833 ex Kings Cross to Bradford FS service on a journey to Menston. The advertised change for this service is an easy same platform change at Shipley for a Bradford FS - Ilkley train. The LNER was unexpectedly late ex Leeds and then sat for ages outside Shipley...

A Bradford > Sheffield service linking both Halifax & Huddersfield would be nice. Given the populations along the line, this should already be a service but I’d guess the travel time would be 2hrs+ making it less than ideal for commuters, students etc.

Interesting point this. I always wondered whether utopia TPE stock would be 5 car trains with 1/3rds doors and higher density seating in the middle 3 carriages and the 2 extremities being end doored and table seated. I know no such ‘train’ exists but sure not beyond the wit of the known mfrs.

I’ll remember that next time there are 15 of us stood in a vestibule!

Congratulations to LNERs Marketing and Social Media depts.

Do we know whether, in time and full bi-mode introduction whether the 07:10(08??) Leeds - Edinburgh - Aberdeen service stays? Always seemed a bit of an odd one and a revenue earning positioning service (Neville Hill to York), given that I assume the majority of 800s will overnight in Doncaster...

Some bits inc drawings for Elland Station here. As far as locals are concerned it’s happening. http://www.calderdalenextchapter.co.uk/projects/elland-rail-station

If you’re a Huddersfield resident you can drive to W Westgate and get a 1h45 - 2h00 journey to London, many parts of Huddersfield are easily accessible to Wakefield which of course also has a giant car park. End to end service from Huddersfield to Leeds will include a 10–15 minute reversal in...

yes, the return journey from KX uses the Leeds or Ilkley bound platform 3 at Shipley on the 1833 rtn. The train from Skipton which is 0717 from Shipley I think only opens 1 door which is the buffet car carriage, and an orderly queue is formed to board! That train doesn’t stop on the return journey.

I often use the 06:37 Shipley - KGX and often feel there’s a good amount of through passengers. Free parking at SHY as well, leave it much later there won’t be a space. I’d agree about the return journey though. Very few passengers staying on at Leeds, and from my experience there’s a good...

I have to use a company booking site that ‘scrapes’ something else. I check on the Nat Rail App as the information given isn’t great. Impossible to achieve and tried to be creative with splitting but nothing sub £200ish for the return journey.

Have I missed something? Just went to book a Leeds - Bristol TM return on Thursday (Feb 14) and there was a distinct lack of direct trains. Thought Leeds, from York, NE and Scotland to Bristol and SW were hourly? Now seems to be Reading and Southampton services? Return wants to route me via Man...

I once heard (and cannot quote where) that due to the size of Edinburgh Waverley, the density of the buildings surrounding and the proximity of the parliament buildings, other government offices, the station itself and other ‘targets’ the car park had to remain open and unbuilt on to be used as...

Middle car of a 195 (or 331 I guess?) on it’s way up the M5 this afternoon, presumably on way from Bristol Portbury / Avonmouth.

Leeds station just now. 2 x 270s (in Northern n livery) sat idle in platforms 1 and 2. Harrogate service leaves platform 3 formed of 2 x 142. Don’t think I’ll ever ‘get it’!

Whilst true to a certain extent, I think there’s more to it. Anyone south of Bradford will likely drive to Wakefield Westgate, as do the populations of Halifax and Huddersfield and towns / villages inbetween. Anyone north of Bradford would use Aire/Wharfe to get into Leeds or park at Shipley...