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Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ivanhoe-line-via-coalville-potential-reopening.262126/ If it did of course. These kind of lines are absolute no brainers for reopening.

In recent years there has been considerable new stock for intercity services with new trains being introduced on the Great Western And East Coast Mainlines as well as the Great Eastern and Midland mainline. While I know there isn’t an immediate need for replacements at the moment - what should...

The Elizabeth Line currently runs from Reading and Heathrow Airport in the west and Sheffield and Abbey Wood in the east. Is this the optimal scenario for flows and resilience or could there be some changes in the future? Presumably the fewer the routes the greater the resilience - Elizabeth...

Having seen the Port of Dover 2050 plans to create the most seamless tech enabled port in the country. Plans include larger cruise ships, new restaurants, bars, shops and waterfront regeneration. So my question is, could all of this justify the reopening - albeit a much smaller two platform...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/multi-billion-pound-drive-to-transform-rail-and-growth-across-yorkshire-and-north-east The Government has announced investment into Northern Powerhouse Rail. One element is confirmation of a new through station for Bradford. Does anybody have any idea what...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3017893z8vo.amp The Government has announced plans to reopen the recently partialled dismantled Leamside Line between Pelaw and Ferryhill. What I can’t quite work out is what is proposed. Is it a Metro extension linking Pelaw and South Hylton via Washington...

Railways albeit with a slight blip during COVID seem to be at their busiest for nearly a century and that’s in spite of some pretty sky high ticket prices. Things seem to have been steadily improving since around the late 1980s after being in decline for the previous 50 years. I’m just...

Following the recent post regarding linking airports by rail, which seems a desirable and aspirational thing. Indeed, new spurs and lines to large airports like Stansted, Manchester, and Heathrow, as well as light rail/trams to Newcastle, Luton, Birmingham and Edinburgh represent some of the few...

Just east of St Werburgh’s Road, the former Fallowfield Loop line diverges and is now a cycleway and footpath I believe. I have always wondered whether this could be opened as part of a Metrolink extension to link the busy Fallowfield university campus with the tram network. I am conscious...

With the discussion about reopening a new station to serve the redevelopment of Old Trafford football ground, it got me thinking about the Etihad Stadium and Coop Live on the other side of the city. With the mayor possibly taking over rail services in the city, I wonder whether there is a need...

With the cost of rail reopening often prohibitive, I wonder if better advertised and marketed rail-buses could provide much enhanced connectivity to areas cut off from the rail network or between missing links. Peterborough station has a bus route that runs to link the city with Wisbech, King’s...

With the possibility of Crossrail 2, Cambridge South, the huge growth of the Cambridge area, the expansion of Stansted Airport, and the growing importance of Stratford as a destination, I’m interested to hear from others how they envisage this busy but currently constrained route evolving in the...

During the closures of the 1960s many large regional cities lost large termini or central stations. Many of these were vast cavernous buildings with train sheds spanning multiple lines. At the time railways were undergoing rationalisation but with the huge increase in rail usage and growing...

With Beaulieu Park scheduled to open in a few months, I’ve always wondered why it has been built with 3 rather than 4 platforms. Unless one platform is a bay or a turn back, or a junction, 3 platforms seems an odd number of platforms to build. Will all three or some be bidirectional? Will...

Indeed - in my view it seems short-sighted to close the existing station. It’s recently been upgraded and the existing population of Waterbeach is nearly 7000. This is far larger than closely spaced villages with stations south of Cambridge like Foxton and Shepreth for example. Furthermore...

As a non-native of Birmingham it has always struck me as odd that the tram stops at Grand Central and St Chad’s aren’t named New Street and Snow Hill like the stations adjacent to them. Is there a reason why they are not? Equally I understand new stops adjacent to Moor Street and Curzon Street...

I recall using Huntingdon station having some limited intercity services and I used them regularly in around 1994/95. My question is not so much why do they not bring them back but why Huntingdon had them in the first place? Particularly as the slightly larger town which does have platforms on...

One thing I could never quite understand when they took platform 10 out of service and renamed 11 to 10, was that it was needed to enable 8 car trains to fit in those platforms. Was there a reason why the 8 car trains couldn’t be moved to the main trainshed and the shorter 5 car long distance...

For decades there have been tentative proposals (they have even been mentioned in Local Plans and transport plans about two additional stations in Peterborough. One at or around Werrington to the north of the city, and one at Hampton to the south. Are either of these realistic and/or likely to...

Cambridge and Oxford are broadly similar sized cities yet Cambridge station is much busier than Oxford station. What could account for the significant discrepancies between passenger numbers at the two stations? Oxford being under 7 million and Cambridge approximately 11 million. Cambridge is...