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couple of questions with the sale of freightliner which part of the business has Midland road passed too im assuming heavy haul rail, and what if any are the future plans for 59003 and 66527 as they have been at the depot a significant time. 59003 has a pile of storage boxes and other bits in...

Leeds city council have opened a consultation on the future of the Leeds guided busway on York/Selby roads (by consultation they mean box ticking exercise decision already made) it is to be replaced in both directions with 'Red road' bus lanes.

travelling from Moorthorpe, on the approach to Baghill station there is a cutting and, on both lines, in the cess there are street type lights (no longer appear to be in working order) does anybody know what their purpose was as there are no cross overs or sidings in the area.

There appear to be two new companies in the Leeds area, but I am struggling to find any website or information such as contact details/ fleet lists and such like. The first company has a school contract and goes by the name of City Transport and the only information available seems to suggest it...

whilst looking around on google earth at railway locations, I looked at the old Kellingley colliery site. At the righthand side of the site there appears to be two short rakes of rail wagons that are trapped - so why were they there? were the wagons moved out by rail, cut up on site or still there?

I have Lima class 47530 in revised network southeast livery, however the blue is of the lighter shade as applied to 47579. I can only find pictures of the real loco in the darker blue so am assuming Lima made an error ? Apart from 47579 were any other 47's painted in the revised colour but...

If a road is marked as a bus stop and also marked as a bus clearway (both in yellow), has a shelter with a flag denoting service numbers and there is a sign fixed to a lamp post stating buses only - can a tour operator / holiday coach legally, load / unload passengers & luggage? A large coach...

Due to not having a tram then losing the trolley bus battle Leeds was awarded a one off cash payment to be spent on a range of schemes to improve public transport -- mainly buses. As expected most of the money has been squandered on stupid 'vanity' projects'. How would you have used £190m to...

quick question for any Transport for Wales /Advanti drivers ---- does transport for wales /Advanti allow drivers from other companies cab access for the purpose of route learning ?

yesterday it was announced that as from September Transdev will be taking over the Leeds Bradford airport tender. Alex has already said it will be run using brand new high tech state of the art buses I would be interested to see your views on if you think its just a tender and that's it or...

due to an unintended design flaw there is a rapidly increasing number of incidents of bus surfing in Leeds - is this just a flaw with the First Leeds order or all builds & if its a flaw across the whole build is this just a problem (the surfing) local to Leeds or more widespread?

with class 321/2 now starting to be withdrawn (warm store for now) how easy/difficult would it be to take the trailer car out of the formation(like they did for the sets transferred to scotrail) and insert then into class 150's to increase capacity?

several class 70's have been parked up at midland road (leeds) since well before Christmas, is this just because of a downturn in traffic, or faults ?

hi all there is a class 150 that works a chesterfield (06:30ish)- Normanton (07:30ish) to Leeds. it is always a 2 car (never a second unit). is there any reason what so ever - platform restrictions- train crew, as to why this service cannot be strengthened. any help appreciated.

I have recently been to Wakefield Kirkgate. Due to renovations the only entrance to the station is a small gate at the end of platform one. On more than one occasion there has been 10, yes 10, STM staff and one or more BTP officers. Why? Do other stations suffer from this type of...

New Hitachi ICEP units for east coast/great western. Under British Rail new designs of rolling stock were kept to a maximum length of 23 metres. The new inter city stock on order is 26 metres. So my question is will stations such as York, Newcastle, Bristol T.M and Junctions such as Leeds...