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Looks good for Rotherham? Bradford gets an upgrade but not as good as the cancelled high speed line would have brought? Some better services? Sheffield gets a few more services? Huddersfield gets further improvement on top of the TRU? Halifax and the Calder Valley get neither wires nor service...

I've been back in the area for a couple of weeks and spent some time in the local historical society. They had a treasure trove of reports and images which I don't have permission to reproduce but I will post one. Having read the report of the 1951 railtour up the valley where the train had...

Once Huddersfield is wired and if Bradford Interchange gets it's consolation catenary, I assume we'll be waiting another century before Halifax and the Calder Valley is electrified. Halifax does start to look like a diesel island. Given that HFX-HUD is quicker by rail but much less convenient...

I’ve been in Australia for 22 years and I’ve always loved the V sets. Been around for 50 years now and they’re on their way out. It does get me to thinking though - given these are 1500vDC and capable of belting up the blue mountains - how would they have fared over Woodhead?

The lost mainline platforms at Carnforth get more than an occasional mention on here. But it has me wondering. What was the level of service to those platforms prior to closure? Even in THAT film, expresses mostly rushed through. Was it the case that it was a convenient place for an engine...

I’ve seen a couple of posts on various sites where people reference platform 3 at Halifax being brought back into temporary use for a few months in the 1980s. Can this be right? The track and signalling was all gone by the early 70s, or was it a temporary platform built out so that people could...

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I’m sure I once saw a tv program where they put down a temporary miniature railway on a disused main line viaduct - Somerset and Dorset maybe? Did I imagine this? Anyone………

Poor bus just wanted to go about its business. One would assume it may be spending some time out of service. https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/people/west-vale-bus-drama-dramatic-video-of-car-on-fire-crashing-into-bus-in-calderdale-village-today-4120893

I'm British but I live in Australia. I've always been fascinated by our XPTs over here, heavily reengineered for the climate and track standards, but still recognisably a HST. I was at the station the other day when one of our Endeavour DMU sets came past - great trains and have served NSW...

Opened in the 1940s with a lever frame that survived until demolition. I remember looking through the locked door of the box on my last visit to the UK before it was demolished (2007 from memory) and seeing all the white painted disused levers. Did anyone on here ever go in there? I’m wondering...

Some time ago on a YouTube trawl I found a video, I think one of the compilations of pennine steam. There was a brief portion filmed from the cab as it approached St. Paul’s on the Halifax High Level Line. I’m not imagining this - can anyone assist? Also - there is a real dearth of pictures...

I'm in Australia - trying to look up rail prices for either Leeds-London or Manchester-London on 02/01/2023. It's coming up as no fares available. Does that mean sold out, they can't plan that far ahead or user error? Genuinely stumped.

This is from the 1970 BR report. Trying to work out why Halifax appears as a dead end attached to Bradford. I'm assuming it's a through carriages to London thing that qualifies it for Inter City status. Probably the same applying to Barrow, Skegness and Heysham?

Given the subject matter I'm honestly not sure which forum this belongs in. Mods please move me around. I just noted again as I drove up the Blue Mountains here in NSW, that the line reminds me of Woodhead. 1500vDC, 1950s catenary, rusting in places and a a lot of stanchions standing guard over...

Driving recently alongside the Blue Mountains Line here in Australia (electrified in the 1950s at 1500vdc) the sight of the rusting, original catenary transported me back to my family train journeys through Penistone in the late 70s and early 80s. I got around to wondering if any Woodhead...

Noticed on another one of the excellent Don Coffey videos earlier that when you enter Summit Tunnel, you can see the pinprick of light 1.6miles away at the other end. What is the longest tunnel length in the UK where you can see one end from the other?

The first stage of Sydney’s light rail extension opened today, putting trams back onto the streets from which they were ejected 50 years ago. This is a view on George Street next to Bridge Street Station

Apologies but I had a nerd out moment earlier, and as I enjoyed the other line of sight thread figured this may have some traction. I live in the Northern suburbs of Sydney and driving home today was taken with a plane high above executing a turn. I stopped on the road and photographed it with...

On 19 October, my parents did a two leg trip on Northern, Southport-Rochdale and Rochdale-Halifax. Both pensioners, my father is alzheimers, and can cause my mother no end of issues when he becomes addled. Huge shout-out to the Northern guard on the Southport-Rochdale leg who noticed my mother...