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The flat crossing at Newark aside, I'd mostly agree with this. Then again the Southern WCML isn't exactly scenic either. Any high-speed line with "acoustic barriers" is automatically pretty dull (and technically not a tunnel) so I don't imagine that HS2 will be all that exciting once the...

A good while back, I was doing some WY DayRover bashing and was on a stopper between Micklefield & Leeds. Was going to bail at Garforth but changed my mind and stayed on. Was kicking myself when before we got to Cross Gates we passed the freshly-restored D9002 running back to York from the East...

Of all the cars from behind the Iron Curtain, I'd pick a 1980s Skoda Rapid... or maybe a 1970s Tatra box van camper conversion. Rivas used to be everywhere round Huddersfield when I was a kid, there was a Lada dealership in Paddock in the shadow of the viaduct. They also sold Protons later on.

Just for clarity, at the present time there are no Huddersfield to Leeds stoppers operating. After Mirfield what would have been the Huddersfield stopper is diverted to Bradford via Halifax because Huddersfield currently only has two platforms available for use plus the Sheffield bay. AIUI when...

Seen quite a few buses operating for Go Ahead around Batley with paper destinations in the windscreen and screens not functioning. Presumably there are vehicles drafted in from elsewhere at short notice to cover services inherited from Yorkshire Travel?

Sort of- MR2 is a near-homophone of emmerdé which is used an equivalent of "**** off!" Or at least that was the first version of the tale I heard, and I'm sticking with it. There's an element of "urban myth" to the whole thing to be fair, as it seems to mostly get referenced outside of France. ;)

On Monday I saw a green Rover 2000TC at Sainsbury's in Wakefield. Didn't have chance to take a photo as it was setting off just as I parked up. Nice patina on the paintwork, it was far from "concourse" condition but otherwise looked well cared for, and possibly in daily (or at least weekly) use...

As a semi-regular passenger on the Penistone line, the worst things about 150s are the cramped seating and the lack of window alignment. I'd quite happily have the 3-car 144s with the original bus benches back if they were allowed. It is a little bit disappointing that the "random unit...

Accurascale have published a video on the OO gauge 153/155 project inherited from Heljan, to their YouTube channel:

The 141s were barely 20 years old when they were withdrawn. They were rubbish (even if I felt they had a certain charm to them) but they weren't old.

This may fail the "not primarily for tourists" proviso but there was (possibly still is, but I've not heard mention of it for ages so I presume it no longer runs) a timetabled "water bus" service up the five-rise and three-rise locks on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Bingley. It even had bus...

The correct way to deal with tailgaters is not to increase your speed. It's to reduce your speed in order to increase the distance between your own vehicle and the one in front as a way of reducing overall risk (assuming you were already driving at a sensible speed for the conditions). If you...

I'd class the 268 as serving Ossett, even though it doesn't serve the bus station or town centre. Not aware of any other First (or Yorkshire Rider) services there, but I wasn't in the area back in Yorkshire Rider days. Yorkshire Rider's Wakefield ops mentioned on the previous page were never...

Both Reading Buses and Nottingham City Transport have sensible names that "do exactly what it says on the tin". "Weaver Network" isn't that, it's a contrived and vague stunt by a mayor who seems more interested in grabbing headlines than doing the unglamorous but important work of improving...

Buses in London don't have fancy names or branding (Superloop notwithstanding), and London has the highest ridership in the country by a huge margin. London's set-up is also the example being followed by franchising. You aren't comparing apples with apples here- fancy branding is useful to gain...

Yep- from platform 3 via Outwood or from platform 1 via Normanton. Halifax to Leeds currently can be done via Bradford or via Brighouse and Dewsbury. This also applies to Low Moor. Brighouse to Leeds used to work for this, but doesn't apply at the moment unless you change at Bradford...

This (your first sentence) is half true. On and off since 2018 the TPE stopper/semi-fasts which pick up local calls between Huddersfield and Stalybridge have run through to Leeds and beyond, until the heavy work began on TRU which brought about the current arrangement running through via...

I'm just not convinced that a fancy name is necessary or adds value. They're buses in West Yorkshire, why not just call the system "West Yorkshire Buses"? There's no need for any bells and whistles. The South Yorkshire "People's Network" or whatever it's called is a bit cringeworthy, but at...

Sounds like there's a station in France that needs renaming then...! In that neck of the woods, I wonder if there are any bus services that link the enclave of Llivia with the rest of Spain? They'd have to pass through France to do so.

That's largely semantics- People may well have used "West Yorkshire" as a shorthand for the West Riding prior to 1974, but the area named West Yorkshire officially has always been the present county. I'm well into middle age now but the present-day metropolitan county predates me by almost a...