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Otley - Ilkley need a decent half hour service. Via the old main road through Burley, then either the main road or Valley Drive from Wheatley/Ben Rhydding. And the 'round the houses' service on top. Extend the 62 or 64 eastwards, or the A1 or X52 westwards. But it looks like the X84 will...

Mod note: merged into existing thread Is there a published list anywhere of preserved UK buses?

Trains to London went from 1/19, and were shown as 1/19 on the information screens. But trains were longer then. I am talking back in the 80's

The X84 and the X98/X99 are not exactly a good fit for First Leeds, which is mostly an urban operation - the old Leeds City Transport. Trailing off into the country is a different ball game. I was unsurprised they abandoned Skipton. The Aire and Wharfedale areas have good trains, so there...

The most important flow is Leeds - Manchester. If resources are scarce, that's where they should concentrate on.

Haven't the tekkies discovered soft coding. The fact the platform numbers are hard coded isn't good coding practice.

A few posts above about St Pancras - Leeds services. They started in BR days to get HSTs to Neville Hill. Now EMR have binned their HSTs there is no need to run north of Sheffield

Where Kwikfit is now. Same building. Originally Sammys.

So why the noses then?

The WCML through the lune gorge is my favourite. Settle/Carlisle is a close settle. The bentham line is vastly underrated The leeds-Harrogate line after Bramhope tunnel. The views up and down Wharfedale are nice Dont know if people who said 'Cumbrian Coast' included Carnforth - Barrow. The...

I was commuting on the cross city line. The electrics were not much of a step up from the odds and ends of suburban DMUs IMHO. The step change were the 323's. I dId like it when i got a slam door electric during the phasing in of the 323's, but thats just me!

Well First Leeds will have spare vehicles and drivers after the beginning of October when they pass the X98/X99 Leeds -Wetherby routes over to Transdev Coastliner.

Dont they outstation 2 in Tadcaster?

Lots of dead running then....

Dudley port used to be an area of wharves and warehouses for the canal network in the area. It was 'Dudley's Port' as it served Dudley but was outwith the borough.

class 150 first took to the rails 1984 (prototypes) and 1985 (Series production of 150/1) Modernisation plan DMU's lasted till 2003. (Cl 101) So don't expect a quick changeover.

What about Southern region EMU's back in the day. Would you need traction knowledge for all the types around say in 1970? Or did you just know 3rd rail EMU's.?

I have a Rail Electric Unit Stock book, May 1990 It had:- 304 Allocated Longsite (Sector PLGX Regional, longsight, livery Blue/Grey) 23 units 303 same as ^^ 4 units 310 Allocated Bletchley (Sector Provincial, Bletchley, livery, provincial) 10 units 319's had come to Thameslink (Allocated...

Sorting Marsh lane - Leeds Stn is the hard one. I can think of no reasonable way to widen it. I have tried to think if a tunnel would work. But there is lady beck which runs under the railway by the bus station, which has a propensity to flood so that would be a difficulty. Under the station...

no sand at Grange over Sands!!! Just mud :)