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Sorry, I meant it'll be turning at Huddersfield (or cancelled throughout- hopefully not!) while the line west of Huddersfield is being rebuilt. Not for that whole period of course, but it'll likely endure a number of extended blockades just as the lines east of Huddersfield have. That would be...

Transfer to Northern (working under the assumption that GBR will continue to have some degree of operational separation between local and express services) makes perfect sense. It's a local stopping service that just happens to run for quite some distance. As long as the route upgrade is...

As I said (in my edit admittedly) an M in a circle is lazy and generic. At least the old logo (and yes, the Sowerby Bridge example is the one I mean) was unique to West Yorkshire. 1778674332 There's one in a back street behind the old police station, I think that's the one you mean. It is still...

The Metro M is an awful lazy logo, it's only recognised because it's been so widespread for the last 35+ years. An M in a circle? Be still my beating heart! The old WYPTE rose logo was much better, I'd rather see that revived. The Manchester M, well at least Manchester actually begins with M-...

Apologies- I'll edit to avoid ruining it for anyone else.

Today's could have caught me out, as it's getting on for 20 years since I used the southern WCML... (Rest of post removed for spoilers)

AIUI the major works were (i) reinstatement of curves at Bradley & Salterhebble; (ii) construction of stations at Brighouse and Elland (Elland was later shelved of course); and (iii) replacement of the A641 overbridge at the Brighouse station site. Plus signalling and related works.

Clayton West (and the Huddersfield to Sheffield at the time) were definitely "paytrain" operations. My brother has a timetable poster from c.1979 on his wall with a table detailing the fares.

Though you're adding extra changes to your calculations there... My gut feeling is that a guess at Inverness will be just as helpful as one from Wick. Edit- just got today's on the 2nd guess!

After playing 4 rounds, I'm considering what the best tactic is for a "starter" station... On my first go I started at Birmingham New Street, but didn't fully understand the mechanics of the answers and ended up not getting it right. Since then I've used Leeds as my first guess, as I'm more...

I was being a little bit facetious with the textile thing, but it just shows how tenuous and gimmicky the Weaver Network name is. West Yorkshire Transport works fine, does exactly what it says on the tin (or bus). TfY could work, maybe once the entirety of Yorkshire joins back together and...

Was that Zack Polanski's old job title? ;)

There's a bit of Orrell Interchange near Wigan where there's a stretch of single carriageway under Motorway regs... It's numbered as part of the M58.

All of these "X Network" brands are terrible IMO, they're jumping on a bit of a trend and they'll all age terribly. It's the same as how all of a sudden in the 2000s it was suddenly passé to be called "X Transport" and everything became "Transport for X". Even in the public transport desert that...

Milner Royd to Heaton Lodge was open for freight (and the occasional diverted TPE). The chords at either end at Bradley & Salterhebble which allow trains to run from Huddersfield to Halifax were either closed officially and/or left in a condition that put them beyond use. When the line through...

Why is the sand drag being removed? Is it because there's less risk longer-term with only joining the slows? Or because more modern signalling reduces risk by some other means? Or some other reason/combination of reasons? I suspect that when the curve reopened in 2000 (though it was never...

I suspect that it such a service was to run, it would stay on the slows until Huddersfield. The western throat (disregarding the Sheffield line) will eventually be the transition point from 4-tracks paired by use, to the 3-track arrangement that's being implemented between Huddersfield and...

Typical Bachmann- bring back an old(er) model but still price it as if it was completely newly tooled.

Yep- that's one of the big advantages of the four-tracking: local stoppers no longer have to fit between the fasts, which allows both types of service to be improved. I'm not convinced that there'll initially be a huge amount of pent-up demand for Deighton to Brighouse and beyond, but there's no...

There used to be several different routes between Barnsley (Barnsley MBC) and Huddersfield (Kirklees MC) but now the only cross-boundary services are the Holmfirth to Castleton route mentioned in post #11, and South Pennine Community Transport route 90/91 from Barnsley to Holmfirth via Denby...