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You have to add in nearby Weaverham, that brings the total up to 12,000. A new station would be in walking distance of both Hartford and Weaverham, the existing one is not. The benefits of an interchange with the mid-Cheshire line will create a little traffic; as we discussed a one mile walk is...

Thank you for the background information. I had imagined that there had to be problems other than capital cost, but apparently not. Cost would be mitigated by land being valuable at the old site and cheap at the new site, and the benefits have some value (relatively little up front money...

Times do indeed change. No more guard's vans and the trusty old CZ weighed in around 250lbs wet as I recall. Not that either of us has done any motorcycling in many many years. And we wouldn't expect the railways to do any service they weren't doing every single day.

How much "improved" the railways are since 1970. :roll: At that time, in the depths of winter, my boyfriend and I (on the pillion) would regularly ride his Czechoslovakian motorcycle to Euston being sure it was almost out of fuel (not as easy as it sounds). With tickets for ourselves and...

As a former local I have long thought that Hartford (Cheshire) station was built in the wrong place. If a replacement station were moved a mile or so further North then: 1. It would be on a four track section of the WCML instead of two track. 2. Instead of a cramped location there would...

The BTP are more capable than any other police force at spotting railway cable. And they will smell who the bad guys are and a random audit will catch them. Having unexplained refined cooper at a random audit is prima facie evidence of breaking the rules. The cost of not fixing it may be...

It could be fixed. Make a law that no scrap can be melted down within 24hrs of acceptance. Have the BTP do daily inspections on the books and the physical material at a fixed time each day (different for each dealer). Require that the dealer takes and keeps a photograph of every seller. A...

Of course, in days of yore, before we had all the "advantages" of modern technology, carriages bore paper signs on windows showing the destination, where there was risk of confusion. Not merely which section to board but which train if a "Summer Only" train stopped at a rural station. So...

I've just read how Virgin service to/from Holyhead does not even slightly mesh with Stena Line service to/from Holyhead. If Virgin wants to end service at Chester then doesn't it make sense for ATW to consider reinstating the ancient (not the modern) Irish Mail Holyhead-Euston sleeper...

If there is to be a stop at Manchester Airport then there needs to be high-speed avoiding lines (presumably four tracks) for trains that do not stop. And if there are high-speed avoiding lines then the stopping lines does not need to be four-tracked. Two long platforms is sufficient. That...

It is particularly common where the station adjoins a level crossing. The passengers assumed that no train is likely to come bursting through the crossing gates. And crossing at that location became ordinary practice.

With the support of, and at the pleasure of HMG that is of course. Is Merseyrail a favoured son in Downing Street? There is reason to think they just may be. It would have to include Crewe - Hartford - Liverpool to make real sense.

Yes, acquiring dual voltage rolling stock would give Merseyrail the potential to operate out of Lime Street mainline. And electrification of Crewe to Chester gives them an operational means to get here from there. All they have to do is propose reopening a long-ago closed Liverpool suburban...

Mea culpa. Sorry, my misinterpretation, it appears (upon googling) that Merseytravel sponsors other (non-Merseyrail) rail services in the county. In particular the existing service Liverpool to Crewe service (via Runcorn) that is marketed as "Merseytravel City Line", but operated by Northern...

Well, as I understand it, Merseytravel already serves Crewe. So Merseytravel could (?) take Crewe from Northern and give it to Merseyrail. If, of course, Merseyrail had the dual voltage rolling stock and could deliver service. My impression (I could easily be wrong) is that Merseytravel...

Let's suppose this rumour is more than mere rumour (risky, I know). Let's suppose that (for example) Virgin wins the bid for the new WCML franchise and the bid includes Virgin paying for Crewe-Chester electrification. In that scenario does Merseyrail get to pay Virgin for use of the knitting...

Actually, I should qualify that. The diesels are not allowed to stop in the modern underground stations in Liverpool and Brikenhead. An ATW diesel could be allowed to turn around at Liverpool James Street on presently unused platform 2 (but not on the loop) because that was built in 1886...

Or from Birmingham/London via Chester and Rock Ferry to the presently unused 130metre Platform 2 at Liverpool James Street. I'm not sure how else you could get an electric train from London to Liverpool via Chester.

It makes little practical difference, but the diesels are prohibited from the underground stations on the secondary lines into Liverpool, not from the 3rd rail sections per se. As to Bidston-Wrexham, overhead wires OHLE would have been cheaper. Metrolink-style overhead 750vDC light rail...

They mostly don't get train stations! Joking aside, BART for example used to have free toilets but they closed after the 9/11/2001 thing as a security risk. (I realise that makes little sense but that is how it is). In more recent times some have reopened (for example at San Bruno) after...