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Surely the (volunteer?) stewards are supposed to ensure doors are closed before departure and the guard should ensure that they have been. The fact that the train started to move off with a still open door suggests that basic rules had not been followed by at least one person which strengthens...

Working in Sheffield about 15 years ago with younger colleagues I was surprised that many hadn't been to London - or York. However many of them had flown widely around the globe from Manchester Airport!

What do we know about any further export batch/es? Were those on a ship to Nigeria off loaded there?

Looking at Hope Valley, Manchester-Sheffield, Northern have put on 5 car instead of the usual 3. For 4 return trips all day. Better than nothing but only just if relying on those that were cancelled. As the line is closed for engineering work for the next 2 days it might have been helpful if...

The word 'profit' is used in many scenarios. When a business finally goes bust it's normally found that figures had been massaged for different purposes not least PR. Usually by that time anyone regularly trading with them knows the truth but is then in too deep to escape the financial fallout.

Full Waveform Inversion - any better, polite, ideas? https://www.cgg.com/geoscience/subsurface-imaging/full-waveform-inversion

Given the number of disruptions caused by damaged overhead power supply systems and the complexity of any track alterations once it's up I wonder what would be gained by making a change other than some increases in speed and the perceived safety aspect. Cost of the change is why it's not being...

Sheffirld - Manchester is a journey of under an hour. London takes over 2 hours. Both should take less but that's another story. As a user of the services between Sheffield and Manchester I can report that the former commuter market between the two cities remains severely depressed. Leisure use...

But we were told we'd have full electrification all the way to Sheffield by 31.12.2030. She shouldn't need to do a thing. On the other hand, a rushed cheap job may not be in our long term interest. 3 tracking from Dore into Sheffield and significant platform and track remodelling at both ends...

We used the car ferry from Mallaig to Armadale this year. It was raining. We didn't leave the car until on the boat. There's nowhere much at Armadale to spend money. It's true that a small number of catering outlets rely on summer trade from Jacobite travellers in concentrated bursts of high...

I understand why the point has been raised and can see it both ways. My local small station has services operated by 3 TOCs, Northern, TPE and EMR. They offer single connections at points across the nation wirh XC, Avanti, LNER, Merseyrail, TfW, Thameslink, Hull Trains, GC, GN and GA. With a...

There's not a lot to do in Mallaig and what is spent by Jacobite travellers will be spent in very few of the few businesses trading there. The NTS centre at Glenfinnan probably takes as much from car and coach parties. Indirectly it helps to draw people to the Fort William area whether they use...

Because it's the best known thanks to great marketing by others than WCRC and the National Trust of Scotland of steam trains crossing McAlpine's Glenfinnan Viaduct. It draws large crowds every day swamping the car parks. I'd question whether every train is sold out. I believe some tickets can be...

LSL are, little doubt about it. Scotrail might be too if they had freedom to make more of the line.

I hope WCRC don't waste time and money on appealing the judgement, accept it, provide a serious schedule of work to comply within a realistic period agreed with the ORR and actually show they're doing it. Then, with spot checks on progress and compliance a further time limited exemption should...

Blockades are scheduled over Xmas and the New Year so I'll update again with pictures in about 10 -14 days time. In fairness it isn't a very long section once they can get down to it, but proximity to running trains and housing makes it sensitive. Residents in the West View Lane flats complex...

The rail enthusiasts equivalent of big game hunting! This month Mexico, next month Nigeria.

Somewhat old news. There's currently no specific bottleneck at Bamford. There certainly is a bottleneck on the current short chord between the Hope Valley and Midland Mainlines.There is also a more visible and obvious bottleneck on the single track through Dore station on the line between...

Aren't Class 90's about 35 years old?

We reached Edinburgh only 1 minute late on 06.08 LSL charter from Leicester. Only 1 minute late back into Sheffield this evening hauled by venerable 40013.