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I called them on Friday on the off chance that there were still some Keighley - Rylstone spaces and was told that it was full. I did end up seeing the tour at Keighley and was surprised it was only 6 vehicles. Unless it was related to the pick up points in the Midlands and platform lengths I...

This arrangement could cause some fun if anything went wrong between Carlisle and Dumfries after the units went north in a morning. On at least one occasion the ScotRail 156 off the morning Newcastle - Glasgow covered a Carlisle - Leeds after the booked unit was used to cover the Newcastle -...

The situation with CTA arrivals at Manchester is total farce. An arrival in January from Dublin at T2 involved a bus, followed by a long wait at an entrance through which we were eventually admitted, then two lots of facial scanning then freedom. However this is not new, I had the same issues...

I was walking past Blea Moor box once when the weekly notices were delivered. The driver of a 156 blew his horn repeatedly to get the signallers attention, lowered the cab window and threw the bundle (held together with an elastic band) high in the air, they landed somewhere in the up loop.

Thats bizarre. But also really quite worrying how this sort of thing can try to rewrite history. Is it a sawn off Jubilee rather than Black 5, as it has a nameplate?

Northern do this with Leeds - Skipton services a lot. At one level I can understand its as running fast Skipton - Leeds makes up enough time to get the unit in place for its next service, IF they can get a sensible path. What is more irritating is when they tell all the passengers for...

Could I clarify this please. The Class 101 dragged 44932 from Keighley to Haworth? That would be an enormous tail load, or was the 101 providing vacuum and the loco providing power?

You may be onto something. Although Skipton was London Midland, the rest of the route to Leeds ended up as North Eastern who introduced DMUs in 1957 or 1958 on local services. The PTMs suggest that 1958 may have been the first appearance of the Skipton - London. This makes me wonder if Skipton...

Looking at timetables on the Railcar website I think all the Skipton/Colne - Euston serviced disappeared about 1961 when the Class 112/113 fleet was introduced. I suspect by this time with the textile industry in East Lancashire in decline, withdrawing these services probably wasn't a...

In some timetable periods this service originated at Skipton. The 1958 passenger train marshalling notice for example has an 1122 (SX) and 1135 (SO) Skipton- Stockport which is then joined to a Manchester- Euston. My father says he remembers Skipton - Euston carriage boards.

The recent "upgrade" on 333s has definitely been a step back, announcements are now muffled, whereas the previous (much shorter) announcements were crystal clear. The only thing the new system has retained is the deafening volume that certain 333 vehicles had, so certain vehicles are both...

If 28% of the entire EMU fleet in West Yorkshire are unavailable, and half the total are more or less new units, and if the west doesn't have similar issues it starts to make you wonder what it is that Neville Hill are doing wrong.

I must be on the same train as you then. I shouldn't have so confidently predicted the 0716 was good for a 6 car! Whatever the issues are with multiple working on six cars no one seems in a rush to find a solution. Presumably its an IT issue rather than anything physical.

I think challenge is a bit of an understatement. If they manage one six car diagram on a weekday they are doing well. The only one that seems to regularly appear is the 0716 from Skipton and that might be because it goes on to Neville Hill so they can swap over units for maintenance. 333s...

Perhaps around 10 years ago they were doing this at Leeds fairly routinely. I never found it remotely reassuring, rather it seemed like an exercise in invading privacy and demonstrating how much power they had. It was especially irritating when you were trying to catch a train, as what was...

It's made it to the north now. Just passed Cononley running about 15 minutes early on 1Z80 Keighley - Penrith.

Its been fairly poor this week. No 6 cars at all Monday/Tuesday, one diagram yesterday and this morning, and two tonight. Not clear if 331s are covering 333s or whether it's a 331 shortage. There have also been quite a lot of 331s going round with non multiple working boards on them.

Northern's approach looks a bit odd. Looks like one or two full rolling stock diagrams are cancelled across Airedale and Wharfedale lines for most of the day, all other services on those line run including Morecambe and Carlisle services. Then in the evening peak three consecutive Leeds -...

The conductors really do seem to be struggling with the announcements on this. I've had various managlements around units, sets and coaches. The best one so far being that the rear three units wouldn't fit in the platform at Shipley, which wouldn't be surprising given that would make it a 12 car...

I think they have moved to the Rail Data Marketplace website.