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Tangmere (and Sir Nigel Gresley) today: Winter steam is best: Sir Nigel Gresley, Tangmere and a few classic locomotives! Also featured is a WCRC 47 at Doncaster that wasn’t on RTT but appeared at Doncaster from the South, and then headed back South. Can anyone explain that one?

Thanks, might go see it again in the morning then depending on how I feel. I included it in this video I made from today:

Managed to see 56049 on the South Yorkshire circuit today, looked awesome and such a nice change :D

Yeah, I agree with that!

A nicer price point than Bachmann’s Stong hints of an upcoming Class 70 in that video too

They are, but they aren’t very watertight. - - - - I suppose 158’s on a true Express service is quite nostalgic, and it’s something we are likely to see less and less of going forwards.

Yes, that’s a fair point.

WCRC could return to advertising its own diesel railtours like it used to if it wanted to. However, the reality is probably that WCRC aren’t overly bothered by losing diesel railtour business as their compliant coaching stock is probably already stretched and better focused on doing steam...

Thanks for all the information :)

But (theoretically) could they run to Leeds via Woodlesford from Kirkgate, or is there a gap that way too?

This is a good example of where the Northern Connect brand would be very helpful for regular passengers.

Thank you for the explanation. I’m sure I’ve seen late night Manchester-Sheffield services travel via Kirkgate, so how does that happen then? (Or am I imagining it?)

And Barnsley-Meadowhall is popular.

I will defend the general public here a little; there are habits to be broken here. If you have been used to jumping on any Northern train that says ‘Leeds’ on it for years to reach Meadowhall, why would you check or notice when one doesn’t? You would continue to assume that they all stop, until...

Excellent stuff. With the infrastructure improvements, are any of the new timetables ‘enhanced’ to reflect this?

Meadowhall is only 400k users per annum behind Wakefield Westgate. There is also going to be an obvious risk of passengers being over-carried from the Sheffield end, with passengers expecting it to call at Meadowhall like all the other Northern services. I will remember this post, next time...

It’s not snobbery, I use Northern pretty much every day of the week and I strongly believe that although they aren’t perfect, that they are on a positive trajectory. Now it has been unofficially confirmed that it will be 3-car 170’s I am happy with that. TP 185’s would have been preferable to...

Two of those are indirect/glacially-paced and the other two are two carriages maximum. Additional capacity from Meadowhall would have been extremely useful.

Well that’s great news. 3 carriages is much better than 2 and the 170’s are spot on for the route, and pretty comfortable.

Today’s move turned out to be 47’s for a chairman’s outing