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Yes, on second thoughts I'm sure you are correct, they would have still passed at Dinting West Junction (at the west end of the viaduct) even on the 'triangular' pattern. I did work the odd morning shift at Dinting, you'd think I'd remember if both platforms were ever occupied at once! I've...

In addition to the enhanced 'triangular' pre-Covid peak hour services mentioned at #9, the leaf-fall service at one time used to work in the same manner - I think this may be what @Bletchleyite is referring to in #7? The line was renowned for poor adhesion, and an extra Cl 323 was allocated...

Sadly we didn't fare so well, it seemed - I certainly don't recall bacon being involved. Finding a 3D scale model of King's Cross - St Pancras underground station buried in it didn't help much either...o_O

I recall walking past the one in Urmston on my way home from junior school. My Dad had enjoyed tripe as a child apparently, but my Mum didn't, so it was never served at home. I'd be open to trying it, I guess, although my wife won't cook it either! In Todmorden, a tripe stall survived in the...

True, although both options would still involve passing through Leeds as the Festival clears out - I've made that mistake before! Anyway, I'm already in the process of getting my £28.99 back from Travelodge...

Leeds Festival over the weekend too, although I discovered to my surprise there is a block Saturday to Monday somewhere between Micklefield and Selby which has scuppered a Bank Holiday trip to Hull I had in mind.

Indeed, although it was the 590 rather than 591 (which was Halifax - Heptonstall). However, both the 589 and daytime 592 could have left Burnley 5 minutes later and still comfortably made the connection.

The Rochdale - Todmorden - Burnley route was actually the 589, but it was always rather poor as a through route due to the excessive running time. This was particularly bad southbound where a scheduled 10 minutes in Todmorden Bus Station was often nearer 15 - fine for me as a driver starting a...

There were some excellent videos of Prague filmed by a young driver under the name Rezistor I was going to recommend , but sadly they seem to have been taken down quite recently. I watched one what seems only a couple of months back, although it was a few years old. All I can find now are some...

Correct, and by the late 1980s a Class 37 and then a Class 60 (or to my infant son when we passed through Victoria, a big-nose diesel or a see-through diesel).

To just home in on this, conductor operation would have been decidedly scarce 40 years ago outside central London. Even odd pockets like Stockport with late-model half-cabs had largely got rid of conductors by the early 1980s. If we are looking at bus life 40 years ago, what doesn't seem to...

Oh, very much so, I consider it a win-win for passengers and crews alike. :D I was merely cautioning that it would be unlikely to happen that way in Britain, outside London and, if still the case, Liverpool, where excessive layovers were built into the cycle rather than having actual mealbreaks.

This thread has reawakened a vague memory of a Saturday Merrymaker excursion from the Manchester area to Torquay or Paignton in the mid 1970s (my fellow teenage spotter and I jumped off when it pulled up at Newton Abbott). I recall we spotted an unexpected Class 09 somewhere en-route, as it...

20 minutes was the only break in a 7 hour booking office shift (0900-1600 in my case) with Northern, although you could generally slip to the loo in a quiet moment.

There are other flows, but during my period driving I didn't really find there were large enough conflicts of boarding and alighting passengers to make having a dual-door bus a benefit, as I mentioned at #243. Certainly they were not as heavy as some intermediate stops in the Calder Valley like...

Todmorden used to have a weekly free bus to that Tesco, odd as it now seems. In the early days of my driving career in the Calder Valley in the late 1980s, I regularly encountered a van emblazoned 'Sudden Joinery' - I used to wonder if they just turned up out of the blue and put in fitted...

UK North did not remove the centre doors on some of their ex-London Olympians, and they were allocated at random alongside their single-door siblings - including on GMPTE school services where I suspect they were non-compliant. In my driving experience (2003-5), I don't think it made much...

Indeed, along with extended opening hours for ticket offices - I think 2200 was the aim for Todmorden and Hebden Bridge, vice their current 2030. I believe vending machines were judged sufficient to fulfill the 'refreshments' requirement. Funny that only a few years later, Todmorden was...

:D Sarcasm, I assume? Both on the suggestion it must be equivalent as an 'international airport' to Manchester, and also on the 'direct access' which, while technically true, is still, erm, limited, to put it politely. I must have sold hundreds of tickets from Bradford Interchange to Manchester...

Thanks for your reply, and also to @pokemonsuper9 at #40. Something to watch out for in future, especially on the rare occasion I would be boarding at Rochdale! I presume the displaced Victoria-Rochdale passengers didn't cause an issue on the 2-car 2N91, which I would have had to use if I'd...