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When passing through Bridlington Saturday lunchtime travelling northbound we used Platform 5. I know this was sorted out and made possible in the recent resignalling and rationalisation, but the use of Platform 5 now seems to be the norm, with Platform 4 only being used when services to and from...

Last night I was looking for advance tickets between Seamer and Stalybridge, or possibly Manchester on a Saturday. I checked multiple Saturdays from next week through to the end of March, and there are no advance tickets available on any Saturday. During the week there are the normal selection...

Whilst reading about something else I came across a reference to the Severn Tunnel car shuttle, which apparently finished in 1966. I cannot however unearth any other details, what points did it run between, what rolling stock was used, how often did it run, what were fares, really any...

There are a number of routes where there could be a choice of interchange stations. If you buy a normal return, then you can decide to change where you want, but if you buy an advance ticket the advance tickets define your interchange station. To take an example in my area, on a lot of journeys...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/liverpool-to-hull-direct-train-from-december-2022.225536 I know there are plans to improve the Huddersfield Dewsbury section, but surely a quick win would be to re quad the Huddersfield Marsden section, the land and space exists...

I was having a look at Timetable World, and pondering how much journey times have improved (or not) between 1955 and Today To take three examples that I am familar with: London - York, 1955 3h30m+ Today 1h52m or less (Almost half the time, Today is 53% of 1955) London - Brighton, 1955 1h0m...

The problem is, and this has been discussed before on other threads is that whilst rail isnt the answer to everything the tendancy is in rural areas to suggest replacing rail with bus services because those are really there are only two options, rail or bus. Bus services have a lot of...

The southern approach to Bridlington station is currently being rationalised and re-signalled. When finished the curve to the south will be eased and all the old semaphore signals replaced (and rationalised) by colour light signals The problem that has arisen is that Historic England have...

I think everyone agrees that electrification of main routes is a good idea, but a question, what new electrification is likely to be delivered and working by 2031. I actually feel quite pessimistic, previous project cost/time over runs, state of national finances post covid, the search for a...

Watching one of Jago Hazzerd's excellent videos about the 'Kenny Belle' got me thinking about unadvertised services, to be specific passenger carrying services that dont appear in publc timetables. The Kenny Belle was unadvertised for a while in the 60's and I am aware of another service serving...

Watching a video by Hull History Nerd it appears that plans are afoot to redevelop the area, and the remaining relics will be lost You can see the video here

My thinking is this: A lot of money was ploughed into the removal of all steam, replacing with diesel. What would the network look like today if the phase out of steam had been on a 'replacement when worn out' basis, and the money saved ploughed into electrification. I suspect the DMUs would...

Don't know if this is the right place but in not mods feel free to move John Sadler, who ran the cafe bar at Bridlington station passed away on Sunday. He retired in December 2019 and moved to Wetwang. He sold a lot of the memorabilia at Driffield last February. He was also chairman of the...

An article on the BBC News website suggesting that TOCs will require a bailout. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51896169 I traveled back from Chester Thursday evening, leaving Man Vic on 16:30 for Scarborough. Train seemed significantly less busy than usual. So probably a further drop in...

I inherited a huge box of old postcards from my mother. There are a few railway related ones so far, here is a selection. They are in good condition on the whole, reflections from poor lighting has blurred a couple. Is there anything here of historical importance? If so I am willing to scan and...

With the regular appearance of Class 68's at Scarborough one thing that strikes me is the noise level from them. They seem much louder than anything else around at the moment. Has anyone taken any sound level readings on the platform. My office is a couple of hundred yards from the line at...

Currently watching a 2hr program on Quest +1 showing various views of and from the Jacobite as it makes it way from Fort William to Mallaig including footplate views. No commentary or music, different but riveting missed first 1hr will try and see if its repeated. (And so far no ads)

The buffet at Bridlington is due to close on Christmas Eve. It contains a lot of railway related memorabilia as well as a lot of other things, old advertising signs for example. This will be auctioned off by Spicers of Driffield on Feb 14th 2020 if anyone here is interested. Mod note: not...

TPE have quite rightly taken a lot of criticism over their performance on the Scarborough service. Today has probably been the worst day ever for TPE performance. Out of 18 TPE arrivals into Scarborough during the day so far 6 have been cancelled. This afternoon 12:44, 13:44, 14:44 and 16:44...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ecml-mml-major-power-problems-09-08.188171/page-9#post-4147074 Sounds like a grid failure, it seems that various parts of the country are affected, London, Cardiff and the Liverpool as well as parts of east Anglia seem to be...