Recent content by fishwomp

The new builds in Barton are included - if you mean the ones that have been built in the last 5 years - at least I hope they're not building more.. It's a very odd map that makes you ask why... - Blackbird Leys _in_, Sandford out. However, Sandford is closer to the city centre. There's no...

I was on a Northern Trains unit last week, and the info screens were cycling through adverts - one of which was for booze, I don't recall which particular booze... but this struck me as a tad inconsistent with other TOCs..

A shocking question to be asking the internet. No-one here is the right authority to answer this. If you place anything near railway land, or specifically near running lines, you are placing people at risk unless you have authority from Network Rail. It would be a serious criminal offence...

So, we'd spend £15bn on a new route to open in 2045, and not have resignalled the line by then, introduced ETCS, wired it.. Looking from railmaponline.co.uk and also https://www.oldmapsonline.org, I hadn't realized that (a) there still is a siding, mostly two tracks of, to the immediate east of...

Recently the light engine workings from Leicester to Bicester (to run from Bicester to Wimbledon SWT units) have used Milton Keynes to Bicester. Today: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:R02061/2025-06-24/detailed Is there a good reason that they're routed via Nuneaton and the...

It'd compare badly! I'm surprised at how badly connected Trafford Centre's metrolink appears to be to mainline rail, if coming in from the west you have to get to Castlefield to use it. Most people don't live in city centres and most employment is no longer in city centres, even the shopping...

Not really an obsession - just an observation that going the long way round makes the rest of the target more ambitious and requires a higher-speed build - and airports aren't the stated goal, the population nearby may be though.. True. Or a new, regular speed commuter line by reopening the...

And so the cycle begins. Shocking to begin this on a lie. Honesty is how to start this, and if it doesn't wash its face, stop. Perhaps they could locate a Liverpool terminus 10 mins walk from Lime Street to help maximize the analogies, and delay the tunnel to Man Pic when they're two years...

Although if the line were not closed for engineering, that fire wouldn't be happening! Freights almost never visit that line. Hopefully this is a minor incident, that post says five tenders attending which seems quite high for putting out a shed fire (!) - but hot weather, dry embankment and...

Well, we know where the open top bus tours get their buses converted..

Frequently.. it's nuts that there are seemingly good places to have four track (and maybe even have permissive passing loops) like Burton and Willington. I think that I may have seen Kingsbury loop used to enable an overtaking move before. HS2 trains is too far away - better to improve the...

Thanks. A quick look at the satellite maps shows that the oil terminal branched off from the Elland line just before the curve does. FWIW, the track inside that terminal is still pristinely weed free, even though the access line is fully overgrown and lifted in parts. That'll be the oil...

1980s summer specials - a gem of routes and locos... I did the curve back then behind 47305. Another use for the line was that DMUs would shuttle over the curve from Huddersfield to Hammerton St depot. That depot closed mid-80s, as did the curve that avoided Bradford and was alongside it...

I was also wondering if Leeds to Southampton containers should go via Bedford? It's not so bad there - the passenger workings northbound would not be crossed, as the centre lines at Oxford are the freight - so only southbound to cross. Further, it's not actually that busy: there are more...

https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/viewpoint-buy-tilting-trains-and-finish-delta-junction-to-salvage-hs2-says-gibb/68982.article Summary: OOC to Brum now not expected to open until 2037 Pendolino will be life expired 2037-2040 New tilting stock with 286m length should be procured for London to...