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I recall SYPTE and WYPTE having a massive fallout over funding of the Huddersfield to Sheffield via Penistone service in the 1980s, resulting in this closure notice with the proposal to terminate services at Denby Dale! https://www.flickr.com/photos/188084421@N03/49836716416 To be fair to...

Contrast West and South Yorkshire, late 1980s, early 1990s. Coal industry winding down and associated freight lines falling into disuse. In West Yorkshire the Wakefield to Knottingly line gets a new passenger service, with new stations opened in the former pit villages. In South Yorkshire the...

At one of my local shops, I was so often charged the full price for reduced price items, due to the original barcode not being covered up properly and the checkout operator not paying attention, that I took to taking a marker pen with me so that I could properly obliterate the original barcodes.

Visited a couple of B and M stores today, looking for some sweets which, according to their website, are on special offer. No sign of any being in stock. Not even a place on the shelves where they should have been. Relatives have checked in other stores, and none there too. Bait and switch...

Sure is. https://coastandlakestraintimetable.co.uk/current-timetable

Today, nothing out in the racks at Keighley. Skipton however, had colour inkjet/laser printed copies of both the Airedale (40) and Settle Carlisle (7) line timetables in the racks. Maybe Northern should just admit defeat drop the paperless dogma. There clearly is a demand for leaflets if...

Keighley station has just had an expensive and comprehensive refurbishment. Despite this, over the entrance to the ticket office remain the BR era Tickets and Parcels signs. This is the National Rail, not KWVR, side of the station. And no, there isn’t an Amazon locker in there. Outside, the...

I’ve had Northern help out by holding a Lancaster to Leeds service by around 10 minutes at Carnforth to wait for a late running service from Barrow to arrive. Had the connection not been held, then passengers would have been looking at a 2+ hour delay.

The new Rotherham station is “Rotherham Gateway”, not Dearne Valley Parkway. I think that it would be better to just reopen Rotherham Masborough, but there’s another thread on that. The inclusion of the nebulous Dearne Valley Parkway, along with Bradford FS 4th platform, in the Blunkett press...

Chinese tat that you can get delivered to your door, and probably cheaper, from Temu. When Poundland started selling items for multiples of £1, my suggestion was that they rename themselves to “Integer Pricing Shop”. Catchy, eh?

Both lines are under industrial units, roads and a lake at the eastern Manvers end. You can understand the powers that be wanting to repurpose the old mines/coke works/rail yards and bring employment to the area, but now those new industrial parks and housing developments are now crying out for...

What is the proposed new Dearne Valley Parkway all about? Most of what I can find online seems to be old stuff about a new station on the now cancelled HS2 route. Where will it be and what purpose will it serve? It seems very short sighted that the Swinton to Cudworth “North Midland” and...

Not on at all, rail companies wasting people’s time and causing them untold stress with their unfounded accusations and bully boy tactics. Without wanting to go too far off topic: If I was in the OP’s situation here, provided I was confident in what I was doing, and if I was feeling...

That. But, I’d be inclined to buy the overdistance excess from the ticket office at your origin station, if you know at that point that you will be needing to go to Deansgate. You may not encounter that guard on the train before you get to Salford Crescent, or they may be unable or unwilling to...

The latest edition of the journal of Friends of the Settle Carlisle Line, now renamed “Friends on Track”, contains an article on something called the Allport Report, which it commissioned to look at potential improvements to services on the line. I don’t have my copy with me at the moment, but I...

Leo? I prefer Pope Bob. That’s what everyone will call him.

The West Yorkshire booklet was brilliant and it was a great shame when they stopped printing it. It certainly encouraged me to make more use of the trains back then. I’d be very happy if Metro brought it back.

Yet, not so long ago the there was even a scheme in place with full bus and rail ticket integration on this route. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/interavailability-of-rail-and-bus-tickets.212026/#post-4894984 And today an article from the BBC about Peak District residents complaining...

Cark & Cartmel. There’s already been at least one lengthy discussion about that one. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/cark-conundrum.239467/

I don’t think that it is legitimate to buy a Ravenglass to R&ER National Rail ticket on its own. That fare probably exists to allow ticket offices to provide through tickets from origins from which no through fare exists, by selling it along with a ticket to Ravenglass. I get the impression...