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The Furness railway steamships on Windermere must have been delivered from Barrow to the lake in a similar way to Maid of the Loch. Anyone know the actual detail?

Not sure of the date but didnt a Sheffield - Scarborough SO service run via Hull, but bypassed Paragon Station. Used the Anlaby Curve. there was a row cos withdrawing this train removed the last train from the curve so they had to go through the closure procedure.

Saltaire is now a brewery/pub. So from trams to trolleybuses (you can still see the niches in the door soffits where the wires went) to buses to a boozer. Thats some repurposing!

With OLR taking on TPE that means OLR now runs much of the railway up north. Wont the monopolies regulator have something to say about that. THere again, can OLR merge TPE and Northern to get some synergy savings?

Is there still a way in from the north side. Used that a few timed around 1990.

Lets move bus stops and taxi rank and short stay further from the trains. Thats going to get people of reduced mobility and those with luggage onto public transport.

Leeds City Transport had Sovreign St, Torre Rd (2), Seacroft, Headingley, Bramley and Middleton. Now First Leeds have just Hunslet and Bramley. Most of the others are depots for council vehicles like dust carts etc. Complicated because Yorkshire Rider bought some of West Yorkshire Road Car Co...

Is that the same Bell Punch who made the Ultimate ticket machines used by many bus companies, notably muncipals?

Facebook marketplace, or Ebay. You can put a price of zero on marketplace if you just want them to go to a good home.

Borrowdale. Just stunning The Stratford upon Avon one isn't bad.

May i submit that to timetable world? I would credit you obvs. Or submit it yourself. Timetableworld.com. there is an email on there.

Oh the joys of a 3.5 hour journey from Leeds to KX in a mk 1 or early vb mk 2. Thats why HST is important.

Cl 150. I remember them arriving. They ousted loco + Mk1 from many longer regional railways services. They felt a step up from modernisation plan DMUs too. OK i mourned the loss of the old but I could see they were a step to a more modern railway. And they paved the way for 156 and 158.

Check out the IWO bus company Southern Vectis. Islandbuses.info (takes you to bus company website with bus times etc)

I was wondering about Leeds Station. Deep below the platforms there is a meander of the Aire. Also nearby there is the eastern end on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and some wharves. Isnt there a weir down there somewhere? A weir means a waterwheel, and that needs a leat from the weir to the...

2 things of interest to me in this area 1 Dinting viaduct. When were the extra piers put in and why? Was the bridge so deficient 2 Mottram Yard. Must have been a chilly place to work.

Ticket machines were different. LMR ones were not the same as Eastern Region.

Were some not painted in BR sector liveries? An Inter City one with claret stripe and swallow?

Didnt they have suffixes too if they were pre-nationalisation? 4SUBs had them I think?

@nw1 I think there was a PIS using BBC micro. I only know of one installation at Shipley. TV was in a window so no complicated engineering. Dont know if it interfaced with signals. Dont even know if Shipley was still mechanical signalling. 100% from memory so aplogies if wrong.