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(Mods: I'm not seeing a specific Thorpe Park thread, but please move if appropriate.) West Yorkshire Combined Authority is engaging on plans for Thorpe Park, leading up to the Full Business Case. Excerpts from the page linked to below: There's a line in the FAQ that says "The current...

As part of its Rail200 season on BBC Four (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/m002k659) we last night got The Train Now Departing (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p011v8dj/the-train-now-departing-the-long-drag) about the proposed closure of the Settle - Carlisle route. Watching the Class...

https://www.eastriding.gov.uk/news/article/?entry=3475 I've not seen this mentioned anywhere - forgive me if my searching capabilities are useless. From the website: I've long wanted to see more services extend from Knottingley to Goole during the day (even if only every two hours). It's a...

Na then, This is probably one for current or former Lincolnshire residents. I've been doing some double-checking and tidy-ups of my Yorkshire Stations map while I'm not working and have the time to devote to it. According to Wikipedia, Medge Hall (and it's associated Halt) are in Lincolnshire...

Hello, I'm between jobs, and a bit bored, so I thought I'd amend the old MetroTrain diagram in West Yorkshire to show which stations are accessible and which aren't (info in WYCA's 2024 Rail Strategy). Then I had two random thoughts about step-free access to the train, not just the platform...

Before I start: yes, I know the railway doesn't really work like this, and that lead times are longer than a long thing. But... At some point in the next few years there will be a need to run wires from Leeds up to Church Fenton. That's going to mean service disruption. It might mean the...

Relics of city's first railway station unearthed - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rlqvjy4z8o It's an interesting article, for several reasons, but the bit that grabbed my attention was: And: Both of these statements raised an eyebrow. I know it was a long time ago, but surely there...

(Please move if in the wrong forum. Ta.) Meant to post this over the weekend, but: last Friday there was a broken-down train at Meadowhall. The 1718 Northern semi-fast was cancelled at Sheffield, and the 1721 northbound XC service was to be rerouted, adding 15 minutes to our journey time. I...

Another “live from our correspondent” moment. Just as the delayed 1S51 pulled in to P5 at Sheffield… points failure! Couldn’t move northbound, so everyone detrained while the set is shunted south and then back through P2… where we should have been, were it not for a delayed freight train holding...

Evening all, Am currently sat sitting on 1S51, which is at Fitzwilliam, behind a Northern service which has been stuck behind an Azuma which has been at Westgate for an hour. According to announcements, a fitter is on the way to attend it. Would it have been easier to drag the unit to Leeds? Is...

Whoops. I did it again... I went to a wedding in June, in Woodhall Spa. It cost me £30 by taxi to get there from Metheringham, and £60 on the Sunday as I had to return from Lincoln. But I did spot there was a Station Road, and a walking route up to Horncastle, and since it was a really lovely...

Hello, A random thought occured to me while coming home from Sheffield on the 1718 semi-fast. It was quite busy, because XC aren't running the 1721, because of the engineering work between Chesterfield and Derby. Thus we have Chesterfield to Leeds passengers on board as well. XC are diverting...

Hello, I did some work on the Yorkshire Stations map from a few years back; someone had seen it last year and asked to use bits of it, it was easier to do the chunks as they wanted and recolour to their corporate colour scheme. Changing the colours allowed me to see some of the drawing errors...

Hellos, I've started commuting again from Leeds to Sheffield (joy), and depending on which route we take I pass through the substantial remains of Rotherham Masbro', Brightside and Attercliffe Road. There's even what looks like a platform at Parkgate and Rawmarsh (nowhere near the running...

Hi all, Wondering if some of you can shed some light of an issue I spotted yesterday. I raised it with LNER on Twitter, no response yet. My train on Wednesday is cancelled (obviously), so I went into the website to change my trains and reservations. LNER is running a two-hourly service from...

(Mods - please move if you feel appropriate, this felt like the most obvious sub-forum to me.) I was thinking about Tracy Brabin's comments on Wednesday after her mayors meeting in Manchester, and my own experience travelling from Leeds to Manchester yesterday. A 3-car 185 did the run from...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/transpennine-route-upgrade-and-electrification-updates-cp6.88054/ It's a moot point as it isn't happening, but if the four-tracking could be extended westwards from Huddersfield you could have simultaneous departures and arrivals...

Hello, Some of you will recall that the (Bradford-)Leeds-Wakefield-Sheffield-Nottingham service was in the Northern franchise in 2016 and has been dropped. It would, however, have provided much-needed end-to-end capacity, especially in the peaks, and would have been faster than the via Barnsley...

Hello, I was musing on some of the usual Speculative Ideas threads on extending services from Castleford to York, when I recalled seeing a line from Monkhill northwards to Ferrybridge and on to York - the route the Dearne Valley Line services take (took), except they were coming up from...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/rail-replacement-buses-during-transpennine-route-upgrade.226131/ My thought was that as rail replacement / engineering work is a thing that always happens, that a bespoke, dedicated fleet could be ordered and used for big-ticket...