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I do. but all you have to say is 'Excuse me' if I dont notice you.

1978 timetable there were 2 Aberdeen - KX services, plus a Aberdeen - York, and the sleepers. The extra services were added in 'marginal time' in BR days once they had east coast HST's. Trips north of made by trains that arrived in Edinburgh too late to make a return journey south. Also saved...

Just a mention of the bit of Carnforth at the top of the subway ramp to the up platform. Very nice.

If we are doing foreign Antwerp Central has to be there with a shout.

Try being 6'6" tall.

Business rate income will fall with WFH. Firms will shed office space and do hot desking. Some offices will revert to other use. Maybe residential?

We have some absolute corkers here in the UK, many mentioned above But my favourite is Carlisle.

Curtail Bakerloo at Queens park. There is a decent national rail service northwards Can night trains and buses. What other English city has night public transport? Kids pay. If you live more than 3 miles from school you get free transport. Everyone else pays. Why is London any different...

304 on Nuneaton - Manchester. But it was a stopper EVERYWHERE except for the stations between Stockport and Piccadilly. late 80's

Are there any bus routes that parallel rail routes. Surely room for cuts there? I think underground lines outside greater London already attract subsidy from the respective county councils. Whether that is a realistic amount I dont know. But if they wont pay enough to cover costs, then curtail...

In the area that interests me (round Leeds) West Yorkshire Road Car Co (WYRCC) and Leeds City Transport started with route numbers for buses in the mid 1930's. WYRCC has route numbers for most routes in their 1936 timetable. But who were the first to display route numbers on buses? UK and...

You can have a long wait at hest bank. Busy bit of the WCML.

In the 70's and 80's settle had 2 trains a day. Staffed. Jim and Monica.

or send 2 unis to Clitheroe, detach one to go to Ribblehead, the other goes back to Manc. On return, the ribblehead goes on to Manc and there is a spare unit at Clinteroe to for the next service to Ribblehead. So you need 1 unit and 1 crew.

Sadly the report is silent about that. There was also concern about sliding while braking on contaminated rail when disk brakes first came in. The goo gets rolled onto the rail head and also onto the wheels causing a loss of adhesion. This doesnt happen with tread brakes as the brake cleans...

There was concern that dragging the cl43 a lot would lead to commutator glazing (whatever that is) so the train was configured for the cl43 to give traction power.

Crossover came out at settle stn when they closed the signal box in the 80's. In fact i dont remember settle box ever being manned. A shuttle from the clitheroe direction would have to reverse at settle jct or blea moor. Unless they remoddeled hellifield so it could reverse trains from the east.

So while its unsafe to use buses and trains its ok for tasix, with their drivers, to take risk

Only in the red warnng area and maybe nearby. I live in N Yorks and it wasnt that bad. Nothern were running Carlisle - Leeds trains. But how you manage that is another story.

Met office forecasting 60mph plus gusts in the small hours tomorrow. Is there no end to this dreadful weather?