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The national rail enquiries website seems to suggest that it is possible to travel from Leeds to Armathwaite by train but that the reverse journey is not possible. It suggests catching a bus to Appleby and joining the train there. Does anyone know what the actual situation is?

Does anyone know what the actual policy is regards to attempting to purchase a PRIV-discounted PlusBus ticket? I have searched online but there seems to be some confusion.

Unless you are proposing a 400kV circuit be constructed to Paddington across Central London and absolutely massive transformers and other equipment be placed in and around the station - this is rather irrelevant. Faster charging means much much higher charging powers. Additionally, is...

Hi, The stagecoach website is completely nonfunctional for me and Lincolnshire County Council has no fare information at all so does anyone know what the return fare is for Grantham to Lincoln on the Interconnect 1? Cheers.

Continuing my long history of rather esoteric questions, does anyone know whether the 4-car 1992 stock trains on the W&C are significantly different to the regular 1992 stock, and how much work it would take to convert the DM/NDM end pairs of the regular stock into more W&C style sets? ALso -...

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/30/train-operators-adverts-banned-owned-by-public-gwr-great-western-railway Well that is rather.... interesting.

So this occured to be a while back: Most traditional DC loads found on trains would consist of resistive heating/lighting elements or series wound motors, either in motor generators or in traction systems. These loads are totally insensitive as to the polarity of the voltage applied to them and...

So does anyone understand how the bus stop/lane changes on the Oxford Road corridor are actually supposed to improve services? They appear to have stripped away most of the bus lanes and installed bus stops which are probably worse than the old ones - all for the benefit of a cycle lane...

Rather esoteric question for the S&T types amongst you. On various cabinets on the trackside, seen from trains and from platforms, you see a lot of references to 400v power supplies (as one might expect) but also 650v power supplies. I have seen them outside third rail areas so I have to...

The Guardian has published an article which claims that the MML upgrade between Sheffield and London is likely to be axed because Network Rail has enormously blown its budget. Anyone got any information about this? Is it just the Granuiad speculating again?

Free trade only works as advertised if everyone else also practices it - but no-one actually does.

Well, I was reading the proceedings of a BTC meeting in 1960 which seemed to suggest that ECML electrification as far as York and Leeds was going to progress at a similar time to the WCML project. Does anyone know what happened to the scheme? It would seem that it would have rather drastically...

I have been trying to find some actual supporting documentation for the estimate given by Network Rail for electrifying the Borderlands line at DC (£207m) however the number just seems to appear in the Merseyside RUS saying analysis has shown it. But there appears to be no actual documentation...

Well, I have always thought this is an interesting idea that would be fun to play around with. Say that the West Coast Route Modernisation project was not pursued in anything like its overly ambitious historical form, but instead an LGV (use the 300km/h LGV Nord for comparison) was built from...

Mod Note: Split from this thread. We don't dare say anything until after the referendum because Salmond will just start screaming about scaremongering as he does when anyone challenges him on any one of his claims - threatening default on a tiny part of the national debt is not much of a...

I see a lot of bits and pieces on the internet about 'Personal Rapid Transit' systems that range in size from ULTra through to the Morgantown PRT in the states all the way up to the smaller CityVAL type systems such as that deployed in Rennes. Does anyone know if these schemes have ever been...

As I understand it there is a legal requirement that underground stations for railways and related public transport systems are required to manned at all times while open to the public. What defines whether a station is 'underground'? Is a station like Farringdon underground in legal terms?

So while I am often advocating 400m long double deck trains, I also advocate constructing a skeleton of Shinkansen esque new railways around the HS2 spine. The 'local' services on these lines, at least in the beginning, will certainly not require 1352 passenger trainsets, so I maintain an...

Well, it appears that new calculations have demonstrated that the optimum point for a Severn barrage is far further down stream than previously projected. It appears the location would be somewhere in the vicinity of Port Eynon-Ilfracombe. Assuming that such a barrage is built, many concepts...

I've read in various places that a town of ~46,000 in France called Aubagne is building a tram network? Does anyone know how such a small town hopes to support a tram system and what it is costing, as well as any general information about it? Thanks in advance for any info as public sources in...