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Evening all.Apologies if this question has been asked and answered previously, but I notice that the LNER services to/from Harrogate arrive and depart from Platform 3. But looking at Open Rail Map, there doesn't appear to be a crossover anywhere near Harrogate to allow for a train from the Leeds...
Wennington station between Skipton and Lancaster appears to be closed at least in one direction for "safety checks".
Services towards Lancaster are not stopping, with passengers advised to stay on to Lancaster and double back on replacement road transport.
Apologies if this has been noted elsewhere, but WCRC have sadly had to tweet that fireman Mike Middleton was taken ill on 1Z34 last night near Garsdale and passed away.
Thoughts with his family and all at WCRC.
https://twitter.com/westcoastrail/status/1296078494674411521
So the other night, I was having a run down from Bristol towards Exeter on Train Simulator and noticed that Taunton appears to have a pretty pointless platform (Pt6).
I say pointless, cos it appears (having looked on Raildar to double check, as i don't know the area personally) that if...
Have just seen that services between Huddersfield and Stalybridge were disrupted earlier due to vandalism at one of the intermediate stations.
Anyone know what happened and how that affected trains?
180108 working 5A83 ECS Crofton to Bradford Interchange has gone up in smoke near Horbury Jn.
Disruption affecting Northern Leeds to Sheffield via Barnsley and TPE trains between Leeds and Huddersfield which are diverted via Wakefield due to engineering work on the main line.
Obviously places like Leeds, Manchester and Cardiff are hotspots of Pacer activity, but i'm wondering if there are any places where pacers have been despite not usually being allocated or diagrammed to do so?
For example, did First North Western ever send a 142 on the North Wales coast or down...
Buses are currently replacing trains between Skipton and Lancaster due to an obstruction on the line.
Apparently, the 08:18 Leeds to Morecambe has struck a permanent way trolley on the tracks between Giggleswick and Clapham. No injuries have been reported and the passengers have been...
Buses are replacing trains between Appleby and Carlisle until 18:00 due to a landslip at Armathwaite.
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12:49 from Leeds terminated at Appleby,
15:06 from Carlisle started at Appleby and calls additionally at Garsdale, Dent, Ribblehead...
Having competed in and around Harrogate and Wetherby for a while now, the competition between Transdev and ConnexionsBuses takes an unexpected twist from January 10th, as Transdev Keighley extends it's 762 (Keighley to Ilkley) to run through to Harrogate via Otley.
It, perhaps not...
In addition to planned engineering works this weekend which sees buses replacing trains between Harrogate and Leeds, buses are now also running between Harrogate and York due to a derailed train at Knaresborough station.
Train services between Leeds and York and Leeds and Selby have been disrupted this afternoon after a man apparently fell from a bridge in the Quarry Hill area of Leeds and landed on the track.
If that wasn't bad enough, he hit the OLE on the way down.
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