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Manchester would be better spending the money on an underground system - making travel within the city more resilient. An accident on the M60 in the evening rush hour can send a wave of gridlock into the city centre. Initial underground lines could be: Prestwich > Didsbury and Trafford Centre >...

The nearest station is Atherton, about 3-4 miles away. From there one could complete the journey by bus (First no 582 service from Bolton). A better option might be to get to Salford Central station and catch a First/Vantage V1 bus to Leigh from outside the entrance (avoid the evening peak...

HS2 Purpose 1: free up more capacity for London commuter services from the Milton Keynes and Northampton areas. HS2 Purpose 2 (if it ever gets beyond Birmingham): enable hot shot people from business, the public sector etc, travelling on expenses, to travel slightly quicker and with less...

The main purpose of the line when it had a regular passenger service was to enable travellers from Stockport and points south to pick up trains to West Yorkshire (and vice versa) without having to transit between Piccadilly and Victoria stations in Manchester. As Piccadilly began to receive more...

The important thing is that they featured the inconvenience which passengers on this line have been experiencing. The geographical slip-up is fairly inconsequential.

Stockport has 19.

I had a change of plan and went for an alternative holiday destination but I hope to use the information I have collected about Lviv on a future occasion.

Battersby on the Middlesbrough - Whitby line has a resemblance to the Coombe Junction scenario but doesn't meet your criterion as I believe all services call at the station. Arguably the settlement wouldn't merit a station if it wasn't a reversal point, however!

The seating in 323s isn't great but overall they're good, sprightly little trains and Northern should hang on to them as long as needed.

An English parliament and an English government based in somewhere like Manchester or York might bring an appropriate focus to the issue. 'City regions' and the like are just another divide-and-rule tactic. John Prescott's proposal for an elected regional assembly in the North East (thought to...

Enjoy the rest of your trip, Dougal. A number of former Eastern bloc places have 'children's railways' (Budapest is one, though I didn't have time to travel on it when I was there); I think they were intended, in communist times, to train prospective teenage employees for the rail industry.

Interesting comments, jimm though not quite right on this bit. Wizzair operated a Luton-Lviv service for a short while around 2009 but has only re-started the route this year. Lviv Airport and some of the other tourist infrastructure got a revamp prior to Lviv being a host city for the European...

Did Imelda Marcos need more shoes?

Flying from Luton.

I don't think a government which has been in office for a couple of months or so can be held responsible for construction failings dating back decades.

Thanks for your information oldman and DEE-DE; some useful pointers there. Given the low frequency of the rail services I'm now inclining towards a coach tour as being a more practical option.

I'm looking at taking a short break in Lviv, Ukraine and would like to take a train trip out of town to see a bit of the countryside (probable date for this: Monday 17th September). I would be grateful if anyone can suggest a destination about 1 - 1.5 hours distant from Lviv which has a...

Would have required a reversal in the Nunnery area on the Darnall line.

I haven't got old timetables to compare times. Arguably the more significant thing, with hindsight, about losing one route is the loss of capacity rather than any great differences in journey times.

Well there is a big hill in between. Slightly to my surprise, the Hope route via Romiley (42 miles) is almost the same as Woodhead was (41.5). The current road mileage using the Woodhead Pass is identical to the former rail mileage. Road mileage via the Snake Pass is a touch lower at 38 miles.