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EWS Knottingley drivers and ATN link 1A Leeds conductors worked them. It may have been HM drivers in the earlier days but the sets certainly stabled at KY for much of the time the service operated. 37405 was a poor performer from what I remember and didn’t work the trains much, if at all during...

Of course. I totally forgot about the footbridge being installed.

4 car 156 will be fine at HIR. 4 car 158’s have always fit and way back when I worked on the line a pair of 156’s was fine unless the platform has been shortened.

The problem is that some people want the railways back to how they were 60 years ago, haemorrhaging even more money than back then due to the shift in how people travel (home working losing by far the largest proportion of the railway’s income), private car ownership (let’s face the reality...

It is ETCS.

This is classed as the East Region. The North East region depots (AH, CL, DA, MS & NE) only sign 156/158’s and 150’s never venture up there.

But it wasn’t spare. Sunday is the day most unit maintenance is done so a full service can be run on the busier days/times.

Speaking as someone who’s had a glass back for 30+ years I find the least painful to sit in seats have a decent comfy base but a more upright firm back with decent lumber support. This is excellent for maintaining good posture whilst stopping my bum from going numb. See any decent computer chair...

You would. Have you not seen the numerous Cardiff - Bristol - Portsmouth threads? Or threads on overcrowded 2 car 158’s covering for HST’s on Edinburgh - Dundee - Aberdeen. 2 car 158’s or 170’s working Norwich - Peterborough - Nottingham - Sheffield - Manchester - Liverpool throughout.

On the east side Northern have residential travel with TPE (between stated stations on a pass you get through HR) and the same with LNER between Leeds & York only (reciprocal with no pass required mainly for LNER staff working at East Coast House in York but handy for Northern staff to travel on...

And yet the council are going ahead with the £43m plaza for the closed and most likely ‘demolished in the future’ bus station. So glad I left the district and no longer provide these clowns with any council tax to squander on failed, failing or doomed to failure vanity projects (see also City of...

Trains aren’t walls though. It needs removing professionally so as not to damage the paint. Also this would need doing on a depot so are we going to the expense of having them all PTS trained too?

Route learning paths are in place for Leeds and Huddersfield crews.

Extremely sad news and my heart goes out to his loved ones.

So you’d happily inconvenience potentially hundreds of people for what? They’d still do it regardless. If you think it’s bad in the UK try continental Europe.

Likewise I believe most of those against it have never read it as they don‘t want to read something that makes sense that they don’t like because their life is “railways is the answer to everything at the expense of everything else”. The Beeching report probably saved as many lines as it closed...

I’m fairly sure the TPE 158’s refurbished by Northern Spirit in the late 90’s had 3 pin sockets in FC.

I’m scratching my head trying to think what use Penrith to Workington would be for diverted services. Sounds like a nettle grasp reason for reopening to me.

Never been sure when ‘back in the day’ actually is as nobody has ever been able to define a date to me, but in this day and age the rule of thumb is:- A train with offensive graffiti (racist, homophobic, sexist etc…) is pulled from service immediately even if causing a cancellation. A train...

3 companies that absolutely kicked the backside of what BR offered when they were introduced. All totally different approaches to branding too and shows what can be done with a little forethought. MML went all out modern, GNER went for a modern twist on a classic style theme and AR went for...