Recent content by johnnychips

Walk down Deep Dale and visit a massive cave on your right, then Chee Dale, eschewing the disused railway to Millers Dale. Continue along Litton Dale to Monsal Head and carry on to Ashford. TransPeak back to Chelmorton.

Is it in platform 7 or somewhere else?

This made me laugh out loud at the Wetherspoons at Otley just now and get stared at. I await my Monday journey from Doncaster to Leeds with interest.

The Don Valley Way from Hillsborough to Doncaster has to leave the valley because of Aldwarke steelworks. From Dalton, it sends you through Thrybergh, which is not exactly Chipping Camden, through Thrybergh Country Park (which is nice) then a nasty section along roads till you regain the River...

This is very useful for me if the hourly Northern between Leeds and Doncaster is cancelled (to be fair, only once in six months), though I suspect other passengers are unaware. It is not announced at the station, and I expect this is to avoid passengers who are not listening properly thinking...

‘How much is it from Doncaster to Nottingham? Blimey, there must be a cheaper way!’ in 2012. A Google search led me here, rekindled my interest in trains, and led me to meet some fantastic people. Thank you to all.

“Can I get a direct train from Sheffield to Carlisle?’ Chat GTP: Trains depart multiple times daily, apparently. I think, in fact, there is one Sunday train. I told it that ‘direct’ meant you didn’t have to change trains, and then it got it right: So now it knows and shouldn’t make that...

Good luck!

Apologies for the late reply! It took me ten hours, including half an hour on the summit of Penyghent. The path now is completely ‘solid’ all the way, and I think the boggy bit you refer to has been bypassed. I think this has made it about a mile longer than it was.

I was thinking about how shopping patterns had changed, inspired by several posts on this thread, and remembered the village I grew up in - Mottram-in-Longdendale - with a population of about 1000 on the edge of Manchester in the 1960s. There were: Small grocers/sweet shops -Mr Burton -Mrs Peel...

I was delighted to attempt and complete the Yorkshire Three Peaks yesterday. One of the most enjoyable and challenging walks I’ve ever done at 25 miles and 1800m of ascent. i got the first train from Leeds to Horton-in-Ribblesdale, arriving 0858, and impulsively made the decision to do the...

Exactly. Just imagine if there had been elections in places like Rotherham, Barnsley, Bolton, Kirklees and so on.

I thought it might be Welsh for something!

Three weeks ago, I took the train to Skipton, then a rather full Solo on Kirby Lonsdale coaches 75 to Malham. A rather hairy scramble up Goredale Scar took me to one source of the Aire near Middle House Farm, then across to the official source just above Malham Tarn, marked by a large rock. It...

Thanks Dale. I’m going away, so I’d better call an open floor.