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Now I've got XTC's "Making Plans For Nigel" in my head!

I thought the MK concrete cows were some sort of civic art project... though I am a bit curious as to what the thinking behind it was. Presumably because cows were kept there back when it was all fields?

I've spent today riding the GWR Castle sets (well, two of them) and covering my first bit of track West of Teignmouth in my life. On the outward journey I noticed that in someone's garden in the Dainton area, was what appeared to be a helter-skelter from a children's climbing frame, laid on its...

An obvious capacity solution for the Garforth area would be to merge the two stations, as they're so close together that it would be no worse for users than some of the other relocations that have been proposed- Mossley for example. East Garforth was a good idea when it opened and frequency was...

Yes, there was the Wetherby line in the past- though even with two routes the service wasn't as intensive as it is today on the remaining two track formation. Many of the cross-Pennine expresses to the North East ran via Wetherby & Ripon to Northallerton rather than via York as they do today...

Equally though, singling a route without reducing the service might seem sensible if you can still deliver the same service with half the track... But that also means the remaining track is being hammered twice as hard, as well as being subject to forces it previously wasn't when it was...

Thanks again, that's great!

Back when the current arrangement was put in place, what was the thinking behind it? Were there huge cost savings to be made by adopting such a restrictive layout? Some of the rationalisations performed by BR in the 1970s and 1980s seem so short-sighted in hindsight that it's almost easier to...

I'm not, unfortunately... and as I'm no longer using the railway daily I've not been keeping quite as up-to-date on things as I used to, other than the big construction project that's happening little more than a stone's throw from my home! Is the WNXX forum readable to non-members? I thought it...

Thanks. Am I right in assuming that unless it's pathed as a Castle set, it definitely won't be one (and that even if it is pathed as one it still might not be)?

My understanding is that Ravensthorpe will remain closed for much longer (circa 18-24 months) whereas Deighton will be unable to be served for a shorter period. The existing "flatpack" platforms (and the access pathways) need to be removed before the site is ready for the replacement structures...

I'm currently staying in the Taunton area for a few days, and would like to have a ride on the Castle Set mini HSTs if I get the chance, either tomorrow or Tuesday. There doesn't appear to be any running today or tomorrow based on RTT, presumably due to it being a Sunday/bank holiday- but I'm...

Re: the mention of Ravensthorpe, when I saw the thread I was trying to think of bigger places than that. Dewsbury is a reasonably sized town which has a station on the Leeds line which runs close to the town centre, but no station on the Wakefield line which skirts the edge of the town. This...

North is down at Wakefield Westgate, not up.

Thanks- I was assuming it was bi-directional based on both platform lines being so. Back in the days of the Huddersfield services it always felt like a lottery deciding which platform to wait on! Though my broader point was that given how little use the remaining through line gets, it's no great...

The loss of the second through line at WKF was no great loss as pretty much everything calls there anyway. AFAIK the remaining through line is bi-directional for the handful of non-stop movements each week. There's also no great speed advantage to skipping the stop due to the rather wiggly...

Does the Marlow branch still operate as a split service at Bourne End in the peaks these days? I'd have thought either leg of that would be a contender.

I'd imagine that you could probably see trains passing Healey Mills, and/or on the approaches to Dewsbury, if you were able to gain access to the mast. I wonder if you'd be able to see trains on the West Somerset Railway from South Wales, or if you could see trains on the West Coast Main Line at...

There are plenty of not "silly" reasons people don't cycle, we even have a thread about it.

A bit like how BR used to spend money on electrifying lines (very occasionally!) and then run 30-year-old cascaded London EMUs on them, you mean?