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Unless St Pancras is rebuilt again, then no. The platforms are short and can only take 2x5 5 car 222s, or 2x5 car 810s, which are a specially built 24m version of the standard Hitachi AT300 unit in order to fit in St Pancras.
The bit between Ravensthorpe and the canal is former (recent) landfill so will likely all need work to make sure it's suitable for building on, plus I think it's getting a feeder station, while that closer to Ravensthorpe is on an embankment, one of the main reasons I was surprised by the...
I always felt that White Rose station was always something of a fop to the shopping centre as it was initially planned to be within the Leeds clean air zone, which would probably have decimated it's customer numbers, especially in it's initial form, and even to a degree had it been implemented...
It's the nature of the beast, a route with many arms in many directions, all concentrated on one two track core, meaning delays from one place will quickly be spread far and wide.
It'd take a lot longer, over 2 hours (assuming a decent path) between Sheffield and Man Pic via Beighton, Derby, Uttoxeter etc compared to 90 minutes via Huddersfield.
69008 should have worked 5Z51 to Widnes. Running it unconsisted or with the wrong loco allocated woudn't be usual for GBRf. 69002 was last reported at Tonbridge, which seems unlikely for an unconsisted move. 69006 worked into Toton at 1407, but that seems unlikely too. I reckon it's the...
Excavation too, so some serious attempt at hiding/burying it. There's been a bit of a dogwalkers path down there for a while, closer to it in the past though.