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    Is there a freight line or something here?

    The 0656 LNER Skipton - Leeds - Kings Cross (Saturday only) generally operates via Garfofth and Hambleton South Curve, as do diverted pasenger services when engineering works take place.
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    Trivia: cathedrals, abbeys and castles which can be seen from trains

    York Minster and Lincoln Cathedral, Knaresborough Castle
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    Trivia: Named locomotives that can't visit the city they are named after

    43106 Fountains Abbet may have struggled to get there
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    RealTimeTrains website

    As an enthusiast, I am just so grateful that Real-time Trains provides such a vast amount of information, thank you
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    170s west of Selby

    Until a few weeks ago, 170s were a common sight west of Selby towards LEEDS but the services appear to have reverted to 15n series. Have the 170s been withdrawn or just reallocated?
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    Kings Cross ‘uncrossed’ Layout/Remodelling - Information and Updates

    Ah, thank you that’s helped my understanding
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    Kings Cross ‘uncrossed’ Layout/Remodelling - Information and Updates

    Have I missed the point completely or will the net result of all this work be to just push the congestion issue back from Gasworks to Holloway tunnel?
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    York Gr Shed

    Thank you both
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    York Gr Shed

    I took a video today of Mobile Maintenance unit DR97804 en route from YorkGr Shed to Retford sidings. Could anyone enlighten me as to what / exactly where York Gr Shed is please? I’ve tried google and both my track plan books.
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    Would you cancel HS2 to invest in the NHS?

    Definitely cancel HS2. I'm a big fan of rail - but HS2 is completely misguided. As usual it focuses on get to London a few minutes faster - but why? We need to get back to basics and get the railways running properly again in a safe, timely, co-ordinated manner. In the meantime get the NHS...
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    Trivia: Stations that are nowhere near the bus station

    Coventry is quite a trek between bus and rail Martin
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    Interest in the Railways - where did it start?

    My earliest memories are when I was around 5 (very early 60's) - I remember seeing the Queen of Scots Pullman passing through Ripon around 4pm, you could see it from our house if you sat on the landing! Also, being ever hopeful that there would be a train at Littlethorpe Crossing, just outside...
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    Train fire on Knaresborough Viaduct (14 April 2016)

    There was quite a crowd of Network Rail / Volker Rail / Ainscough Crane engineers at Starbeck crossing around 1130 this morning discussing recovery, prehaps it's on the move this weekend
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    Greater presence of British Transport Police at stations?

    I was in London last weekend (21st / 22nd), armed BTP at Kings Cross
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    Barnsley - Dodworth - Silkstone

    Was the Barnsley - Dodworth - Silkstone line ever electrified? I drove over Dodworth level crossing last weekend and was convinced that I'd been there many years ago (mid 70s?) and that there were bells over the roadway to warn of the overhead wires height restrictions Martin
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