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It seems to me by the householders actions the station is less likely to close, and in fact when reopened will experiencea surge in usage due to peoples curiosity. If they had just sucked it up and not courted publicity the station usage might have tailed off to the point where even if not...

At the risk of getting off topic, we live right at the Northern edge of the East Riding, rural, and totally different in character to the Hull suburban area, and there are pressures locally to split with Beverley, and create a new Authority based on Bridlington. I dont mind subsidising public...

I have used the ECML since the mid 60s. My perception is that journey times were improved slowly during the 60s and 70s, then a step change when HSTs came in, further improved when the Selby diversion opened. Since then headline services haven't improved much and in some cases are actually...

To me its a must, Brough is 180m ish, so at least both units of 2 x 802 can open doors onto the platform, allbeit with some doors locked out. A lot of TPE trains are now 2 x 3cars, 140m ish, and TPE also need to run longer trains, again because of capacity. What would be the cost difference...

I cant see any cost estimates amongst the East Riding publicity, what is a station on this scale likely to cost? I still remain to be convinced...

In my mind it's a case of Melton not adding much revenue. The problem with 'a few extra minutes' is that everytime you add a stop to a fast service its another few minutes. Inter City service need to be that, Inter City, traditionally Brough is the west Hull call, if you change that its OK but...

Probably not for local services, but for long distance services that currenly call Hull - Brough - Goole, Howden or Selby and reverse workings you wouldn't want 2 stops with 2 miles. Currently Brough has 5 - 6tph each way. Manchester, Doncaster/Sheffield(fast) and London (every other hour)...

I think the problem is going to be long distance services. They are not going to call at both Melton and Brough. So is Brough relegated to a local only service. Brough is not ideally situated and only has about 100 parking spaces, but I can imagine that if Melton were to replace Brough a lot of...

The other advantage of express services is that there is less passenger churn and the carriage environment tends to be better, If I am purchasing in advance and tieing myself to a specific service then if practical I will choose the one I think will be the most comfortable.

Public transport is a non starter. I think there is a bus on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but of course the railway doesnt run those days. Its about 10 miles from Driffield, which is the nearest place with regular public transport, Malton is about 11 miles the other way, but again no link. This part...

I visitied this railway on Saturday, and had a very enjoyable experience, the staff, who are all volunteers made us welcome. They offer a driver experience, and I have been looking for an affordable option for some time. I have an adult nephew with learning disabilities, he is 27, but a mental...

But when has this stopped politicians? Both main parties have made bad decisions based on dogma rather than common sense. If Hull trains were 'absorbed' into LNER/GBR then I would predict that the through services to London from Hull would be back to the 1 each way per day as they were prior to...

That feel like GC are 'leaving cash on table' (an expression my grandfather used, who was in business). This relates to another gripe of mine, that journey planners cant be forced to promote an easy change, there are a lot of journeys where there a number of options, for example where 2...

Yes Hull trains have managed to get 10 car units on their busiest services. We travelled down to Kings last October at the start of our holiday on a 10 car. Both bits were full, I spoke to train manager and he said there well over 600 people on it. 10 car does create some interesting situations...

Am I missing something here... We cant build the original concept HS2 because the costing was way off and project management seems to have failed, and its been cut back to a 'lets just finish the bits we have started' with even Euston in doubt. So how is a much expanded HS network proposed by...

Putting Rochdale to London into the National Rail Journey planner as Rochdale to London (all stations) for travel now shows 4 options over the next hour, 1 with a single change in Leeds at 3h49m and 3 via Manchester, all requiring transfer bewteen Vic and Pic at around 3h10m +-. Given the Pic...

What is interestesting is that both Hull trains and Grand Central serve towns and cities which tend to be regarded as Labour heartlands (ignoring 2019 election results). So if Labour did block further OA applications, and allow the existing ones to lapse as the became due for renewal the impact...

Transilien lines H and K still terminate in Gare du Nord. Yes they could do an 'RER' but with all the other work going on associated with Paris Grand Express I cant see it happening. I would also see the same problem as the UK, the French government are not going to want to spend money to...

We had a thread about the limited expansion options at St Pancras a while back https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/eurostar-st-pancras-bedlam-solution-could-be-to-start-some-trains-at-ebbsfleet-or-ashford.262292/ If Eurostar spend a fortune expanding the facilities they will not be happy if...

Would have to be HST, for me the step change in both comfort and journey time was a combination that hasn't happened since. Yes some thing could have been done better, the doors for example, but they have been the mainstay of inter city services away from the electrified routes for well over 40...