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They are awful - I'm not going to complain about a bit of smoke when whole villages are being obliterated. As for the shot, thanks, a quick grab as I crossed the road.

I took this shot early on Sunday morning. Shows the crossover and points between the L1 (I’m standing on it) and L2 at Haymarket/George Street. Also shows the sun fighting a losing battle against bushfire haze

The first stage of Sydney’s light rail extension opened today, putting trams back onto the streets from which they were ejected 50 years ago. This is a view on George Street next to Bridge Street Station

That's incredible

Could I be allowed to hijack this with a non UK picture? Please delete if not. I went up the coast this weekend and in my haste to get back forgot to shoot one of my favourite distance shots. I therefore stole this from the interwebs. This is a distant shot of the City of Sydney taken from the...

Many thanks for this

There's a ton of this stuff online. I had no idea. I think the distance pic winner is the Alps from the Pyrenees, but there are equally impressive distance shots of Snowdonia from Scotland or Snowdon from the Wrekin. Being from Halifax there was always an urban myth of Blackpool Tower being...

Given the majority of complaints about Northern at the moment seem to be about weekend cancellations or jam packed two car trains, I wonder how people on those impacted lines would feel if instead of a cancellation you got a pacer, or instead of a two car sprinter you got a four car pacer...

The NSW media is waiting with bated breath for the first pedestrian to die when the light rail extension opens.

Apologies but I had a nerd out moment earlier, and as I enjoyed the other line of sight thread figured this may have some traction. I live in the Northern suburbs of Sydney and driving home today was taken with a plane high above executing a turn. I stopped on the road and photographed it with...

I'm not in the UK anymore but I do recall from the fields behind my grandmother's house in Greetland (hills above Halifax) you could see a large power station in the far distance through gaps in hills. I assume it would either be Drax or Ferrybridge, which when you think about it is probably one...

There is a lot of bile aimed at Northern on here, although in fairness not at the front line staff.

On 19 October, my parents did a two leg trip on Northern, Southport-Rochdale and Rochdale-Halifax. Both pensioners, my father is alzheimers, and can cause my mother no end of issues when he becomes addled. Huge shout-out to the Northern guard on the Southport-Rochdale leg who noticed my mother...

I’m loving where this thread has gone. I went for a drive in Tasmania today and the place was criss-crossed by single track goods lines, many of which are disused.

I took this screenshot from the excellent cabview video from Don Coffey (and if you're on here Sir, I apologise for the theft and salute your excellent films). It's the "single lead junction" across Scarborough Bridge at York. It has me wondering if the section between the points qualifies as a...

I'm very late to this thread, so just to lob in my regional bias, although I'm from Halifax it pains me to admit that Huddersfield probably doesn't deserve to be on here. It's a glorified east-west commuter station and could probably sustain a service that went north or south. That being said...

Thanks - I did wonder if a diesel engine ever made it up the branch so maybe here is the proof.

This is a photo I don't own, so I hope I'm not breaching copyright. The picture is of West Vale goods yard, on the old L&Y Stainland and Holywell Green branch. Taken, one would imagine around tracklifting time in the early 1960s. I'd love to know what the wagon is in the immediate foreground...

I've started to believe I imagined this, but I'm convinced in a rail magazine I once saw a photo of a TPE route map that was affixed to the inside of a carriage. Halifax was a destination, thus one would assume from this thread that York and Blackpool were at either end of that line. I think...

oh don't worry - I'm not holding my breath. Here in Australia, both major parties get very excited about Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne high speed rail just prior to an election. It's still quicker to walk.