Recent content by Ken H

Saw a 144 at Airedale hospital yesterday. 55801 from 144001

There is some api websites use to find the 'nearest' - It thinks Barrow in Furness is close to Liverpool and Lancaster! How you program actual 'nearness' I dont know.

The money per death* should be the same for all modes. *this should include a factor for life changing injuries. So loss of a limb = (say) 50% of a death.

What needs to be done is consider whether the costs of safety is driving people off the railway. If a safety device/procedure will save 1 death equivalent per 1,000,000 passenger miles, but the costs drive some passengers to the less safe roads, and some of those have serious accidents, is that...

Good job Alcester closed some decades ago then !!! (Locals call it 'olsta'. Brummies say it how it's spelled)

Really? How about finding a bus in Kirkby Stephen or millom.

There was Melton between Selby and Hull. It was in the Baker rail atlas with an asterisk. And only appeared as a footnote in the BR passenger timetable. Never did work out what was going on. Its has a Wiki entry but I cant find mention of it in 1978 BR passenger Timetbale

Not to do with skinny dippers in Morecambe Bay then :)

Isnt the station in Flookburgh?

Wasnt it Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway for a while?

Bare Lane? Its the station for Bare.

Were there steam/diesel combinations before the end of BR steam? Timetabled and emergency ones. Sorry, not old enough to know!

Plusbus in West Yorkshire covers the whole county. Buy a Weeton - Horsforth day return and get a £4 plus bus to ride to Todmorden, Huddersfield and Wakefield.

Quarantine cut to 5 days subject to negative lateral flow tests on 2 consecutive days*. Can we expect better reliability from the railway now? * England only I think.

Wasnt Oxenholme 'Kendal Junction' at one point?