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Before Beeching, it was possible to reach Otley via both Arthington and Menston. However after Horsforth there's Bramhope Tunnel and the triangular junction at Arthington (station closed 1965). Otley would probably now be served via Menston. Services were poor between Leeds-Wetherby before...

Metro considered reopening the Cross Gates-Wetherby line as far as the A64 just north of Scholes to serve a park and ride site but were stymied by the lack of train paths east of Leeds. Wetherby would had benefited from a 30 minute service into Leeds now

I've often imagined what form the Somerset & Dorset would have taken if it survived. Due to the cost of maintaining infrastructure particularly viaducts and steep gradients, Evercreech Junction-Bath Green Park station would have closed, traffic routed from Evercreech Junction via Glastonbury to...

I'd agree those lines should have stayed open. By the time the Somerset & Dorset closed to passengers in 1966 the Southern Region-Western Region boundary was just north of Blandford. Freight trains continued to Blandford until 1969, there was and still is an army camp just outside of town. Until...

Bangor-Caernarfon. Would now be busy with visitors travelling to/from the Welsh Highland Railway

What I would like - but probably won't happen - is the same price and interavailability for single fares on both National Rail and Metrolink to common destinations served by both modes eg Ashton, Altrincham, Eccles, Rochdale and the airport. All National Rail stations would be zoned as part of...

My friend and I travelled on that very same road earlier this year between Okehampton-Launceston and vouch for its direct route. However if BR took the bull by the horns in the 60s ignoring pre-nationalisation practices, Launceston could by now have a service via Lydford and Tavistock...

Bodmin Road (Parkway)-Bodmin General-Wadebridge-Padstow could have been viable nowadays with hoilidaymakers, like many of Cornwall's other branch lines. I visited Padstow earlier this year and imagined a contemporary branch line station with a GWR 150/2 running from there. The service would have...

I often wonder in what form the Somerset & Dorset line would have remained nowadays if Beeching didn't axe the entire route in 1966. The Blandford Forum to Poole section and Broadstone Junction to Wimborne would have been useful now with heavy road congestion and new housing developments in...

I would have retained the ex-GCR line through Lutterworth as far as the southern outskirts of Leicester. Chords would have been built linking it to the Nuneaton-Leicester line so trains could access it from both Nuneaton and Leicester. The line would then continue as far as the...

Oxford-Cambridge. Would have saved several billions retaining the route as it was compared with East-West Rail forced to reroute the line between Bedford-Cambridge

I haven't seen the new fares published yet but I'm hoping they're moving to a zonal fare system aligned to the existing Metrolink zones

I'm assuming level access is stipulated in their tenders so ordering 3- and 4-car units means at least 1 carriage (3-car) and 2 carriages (4-car) in each unit will have such access

One proxy measure for profitability during National Bus Company days was how many new buses were supplied each year to its subsidiaries. NBC generally allocated its newest buses to their more profitable companies which cascaded older vehicles to their less profitable areas of their empire. For...

Prior to deregulation in 1986 some areas had formal agreements apportioning routes and revenue between National Bus Company (NBC) and municipal operators. They often predated the formation of NBC and I know Portsmouth and Brighton (Brighton Area Transport Services) had such agreements. Most...

Harrogate Bus Co route 7 serves Wealstun prison hourly (1/2 hourly peak times) between Thorp Arch and Walton villages

Franchising cannot come soon enough in West Yorkshire. A busy corridor, York Road, Leeds, First West Yorkshire cut daytime frequencies; indeed, currently, except for the 56, First's buses run hourly on evenings, prior to Covid they ran half hourly evenings, they now also finish earlier as well...

Congratulations on Porterbrook for donating a 150/2 for preservation. I'm assuming 150 231 was the best overall condition unit out of all the TfW units withdrawn so far. If that didn't happen, otherwise I anticipated a much longer wait for 150s to become available for preservation, taking into...

Dedicated freight route from Southampton to Didcot using the former Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway trackbed north of Winchester with underpasses at Newbury and Didcot onto line towards Oxford. Also freight route built to Berne gauge branching off HS1 on the route of the proposed Lower...

Extend HS2 from Birmingham Airport south-west mostly following the M42 connecting with the Birmingham-Cheltenham line south of Bromsgrove. Build link between HS1 and HS2 as originally planned. Reinstate March-Spalding line with loading gauge profile to handle the largest containers as an...