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If we're allowed smaller places, then Lockwood would qualify. The surviving in-use platform is the down one, which faces the area of Crosland Hill rather than the centre of Lockwood itself. Using the staircase lessens the impact of this. Sowerby Bridge station is also accessed from the opposite...

The second photo could almost be Clapham Junction.

There used to be a daily evening ECS move with a HST from Manchester to Leeds via Huddersfield in Virgin days. If the regulatory environment had been different (or XC was just a part of "British Rail PLC") this could have run in service.

There's already a gap in the live rail at crossings, and that gap is a fair bit larger than the width of the crossing. There's also (usually) anti-trespass surfaces installed either side of the crossing. Have there been any instances in recent memory of a person who wasn't trespassing being...

411 Kingston (Cromwell Road bus station) to West Molesey. Runs past Bushey Park where deer can be seen, and past Hampton Court Palace. Crosses the Thames twice (at Kingston and Hampton Court). Used to be a rare example of a TfL service using single-door double deckers but no idea what it uses...

Leather? How gaudy and ostentatious... I want to see an operator go for suede! ;)

As a general rule anything post-privatisation is a no-no for me, but if I can manage to find a GBRf 66 for a reasonable price that I can turn into 66738 I'd go for it. No way I'll be paying whatever Bachmann want for this new one though!

Bachmann made a surprise announcement today... A class 66. Just what the market needed... :rolleyes: In their defence it does look a great model with plenty of features... but no doubt that will be reflected in an obscene RRP, this being Bachmann.

I do think sirens are a bit too loud now, to the extent that in built up areas when you suddenly hear a siren start up (because an emergency vehicle is approaching an intersection) you can't actually tell which direction it's coming from at first because the sound resonates off all the...

There's definitely lots of work still to do. I was surprised at how large the street-level "lobby" area is before reaching the staircase- must have been a lot of spoil to excavate! Presumably that signal will be repurposed elsewhere. Maybe just moved over to perform the same role on the...

That's pretty much what I expected, until this morning when what was P2 became P1. It's going to be a good while before the extended island is truly complete, so if users get used to P1 being where it is currently it'll be a bit of a culture shock if the numbering reverts to how it was before...

Historically the "Up" side was towards Manchester on both the LNWR and the L&Y. It does in the interim, but once the work is complete the line towards Leeds & Wakefield will return to the original side of the island. Trains that currently use P3 will use the side of the island currently used by...

200m is a ridiculous margin for error though. The Waterloo to Reading line has so many crossings that you'd essentially be de-electrifying a good chunk of the route. I think there has to be a point where we accept that if someone has got themselves into a dangerous situation it's on them.

Some take any criticism of "God's Wonderful Railway" as, well, heresy!

If you're being bumped around, perhaps a "lazy wee" (i.e. sitting down) is the smart move? ;)

How long do the gaps actually need to be? I'm not sure if there's a rule stating how far from the crossing the end of the juice rail has to be, but I can't recall ever crossing a line with 3rd rail where the distance was less than 2m. Pretty much every DC EMU is 3-cars minimum now (466s aside...

At risk of causing the topic to go off on a tangent, does anyone know the thinking behind how this transitional period is handled in terms of platform numbers? It's often said that renumbering platforms isn't as simple as changing the signage, as signalling also needs to be changed along with...

It's only an additional danger if members of the public wander off in a direction they shouldn't.

Not sure if it counts as it's just a worse DMU substituted for a more appropriate one, but in Northern Spirit/ATN days (and indeed prior to privatisation) it wasn't unheard of for 142s or 144s to find themselves on TransPennine fasts.

Ashley Neal did a video on this subject sometime last year, about someone being penalised for entering a bus lane to let an ambulance through. His position was that the ambulance driver should have used the empty bus lane themself instead of leaning on the horn to bully the civilian driver into...