Recent content by Killingworth

I don't know who's voice it was but since Dore & Totley got a 6 car platform last month we seem to be being warned that it has a short platform! Suitable for most other 4 car stations on the Hope Valley line when operating 6 car trains at weekends but not on a 3 car 195 anywhere today.

The new layout has been operational for over 3 weeks and it's good to see services passing each other through Dore & Totley station. That's working well, only 25-30 years since planning for it started. I have yet to see a freight service standing in the Dore loop (near my house) although it is...

Any news on progress to resolve this? National Rail website implies reopening no earlier than Tuesday 7th May, and possibly much later. Previous comments suggest that is indeed optimistic, see; https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/romiley-20240325/ There were allegedly no...

LSL do exactly that with their steam hauled Saphos brand; https://saphostrains.com/

I'd Boycott that!

Whatever we may say there must be talks of many kinds taking place. A lot of businesses and people are relying on it, like those operating and booking a 4 day tour with Kirsty Wark in July; https://tripsmiths.com/tours/scottish-highlands-steam-train

And the price of fine dining and anything else that would be left will not get cheaper without some competition.

And maybe one or two in the Sheffield business sector who might occasionally use one of the very few flights going where they want to go on days they want to travel.

Inevitable that the majority of short hoppers will have different views to those travelling between Newcastle and Sunderland in much smaller numbers. From South Gosforth into town I'd often stand even if seats available. Trying a trip to Sunderland recently I would have preferred an airline type...

It isn't about running a steam service. It's about using any of the 125 coaches currently exempted. That's a very large proportion of the national coaching stock that's available for special services with heritage appeal, many of which are diesel hauled. There are a lot of special services...

If it leads to his principal competitor enjoying a virtual monopoly Mr Smith may have a bitten rump but those of us who enjoy riding in heritage trains (some for traction, some for routes, some for the social side, some for the destination) will lose out + all those who line the stations and...

Most, but LibDem control 1999- 2002, 2008-11.

Thanks for that, it's the sort of reasoning my financial brain likes to see and explains a lot.

The cost depends on many factors, one of which must include the state of the coach. CDL in isolation is largely academic as 60 year old coaches will all have a variety of corrosion and dilapidation issues to resolve in addition. LSL start from a different place and turn out some superb...

I've lived here for many decades and comment on what I see and hear. Non-labour candidates held Sheffield Hallam for generations, considered by Tories as their only firm foot hold in South Yorkshire until 1997. It then seemed almost safe LibDem until Nick Clegg lost to Labour in 2017. I doubt a...