Search results

Might be useful if we get a repeat of the 2023 deluge. The comment may not mean much to those who didn't experience the soaking and up to 3 hour wait to get out of South Shields by rail or road!

It would be nice if new units were running for the 2024 Great North Run. Way back it was hoped they might be in service for the 2023 event.

I like travelling in HSTs and thought they were* a good product, but was concerned to note rust bubbling through body panels on a GWR unit at Swindon in November 2015. In June 2021 I crossed the footbridge at Pitlochry and pictured the roof of a supposedly refurbished unit. If the very...

A close look at events before 1955 going back to the dawn of railways shows a fragmented approach across the nation! If the North Eastern Railway had ruled the roost the ECML might have been electrified before 1940 and we'd not have been worshipping Gresley's Pacifics. Digression and potential...

I am not anti-rail at all, although my journey this morning might swing me that way. I've heard 68s and they are noisy. They are noisier than anything else operating on the passenger railway. Imposing them on routes that haven't seen and heard regular loco hauled stock for decades was bound to...

Present practice sounds far more practical. I used to be able to hear the freights slowly starting away from a stand and there's no way they'd catch any southbound rolling train on the MML. In recent years they've seemed quieter. Of course a light engine movement possibly could.

Or; This train has onboard catering but it's in the front/back half so tough luck on you lot in the back/front half. But there's no hot water until Newcastle so only cold drinks available for anyone.

Leaving sleep aside, the day I was waiting for another train at Piccadilly and a 68 was ticking over nose in convinced me that they're unacceptable. It was necessary to raise voices to be heard at cafes some distance away. Other trains were quiet.

Well, prior to a trio of meetings in Manchester and Liverpool in the New Year I thought I'd sample 1R52 at 7.36 from Dore. An advanced EMR only ticket was reasonably priced. I checked before leaving home that it was running. I saw it running into Sheffield. I'd got there early enough to have...

That would have been the plan for 68s too but added an extra operational issue to enure it always happened.

It will be an extention of the existing chord. This morning a southbound freight for the MML could have pulled in there instead of delaying an eastbound TPE service due to leave Dore at 8.04 until 8.18, the following Northern from 8.22 to 8.26 and westbound TPE at 8.15 to 8.22. Knock on delays...

Nose in to the train shed at either Lime Street or Piccadilly the ear shattering noise is/was unpleasant for much of the station! At least when in motion the noise quickly passes.

But they would quadruple in some places and hardly rise at all in others. Unfortunately some form of rationing is necessary and that is best done by price. The fine tuning of that will always be contentious. (Currently travelling on good value advanced ticket for a train that was cancelled...

In Mk 1 days and earlier each suburban compartment had 2 doors. Of course it waa dangerous when they all opened before the train came to a halt in terminal stations. In films people would climb out of one and into the next while in transit- or leap onto the embankment and walk away with hardly a...

Paths are in on RTT.

Work continues on the extended Dore chord/loop. It was understood that it would have been completed with soil nailing over the summer and restorative planting begun in October. Now needing to be completed with green painted retention wall by early March for line reopening on 24th. Fine weather...

However the figures relate to 1st April 2022 to 31at March 2023 so we need to bear in mind what was happening then and not most recently. I have to say I'm surprised to see Manchester as the most popular destination from Sheffield given TPE's awful performance but services to Leeds, Doncaster...

Are GWR sets similarly knackered?

And they're operating smart modern trains that add to the feeling of pride in the railway. As a visitor that makes them a joy to use.

2S83, the 13.14 out of Sheffield yesterday was rammed but left on time. It was 20 minutes late at Dore Station Junction. 8 were left behind at Dore unwilling or unable to join the sardines. It left Dore 23 late. Presumably knock on from the issues caused by overrunning engineering work?