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Apparently there is a tree on fire at Saltaire and a tree down near Foster Square so all lines have the power off and nothing running. I missed the 60 bus so off into Bradford to try a train from there.

I've recently got a new annual season on a norther smart card and it seems every time it gets scanned on board the guard has to go through multiple steps of button pressing to get it to show up as valid, looks like checking out and or in. I commute from Shipley to Leeds daily and this ticket...

There was a thread recently about police misconduct hearings due to ticketless travel on the railway. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/police-misconduct-hearings-related-to-rail-travel.243356/ Following that I thought the standards required to keep a job in the police were fairly high...

I plan on getting the 1338 from Shipley to go to Halifax - not decided whether to go via Leeds or Bradford yet but both depart at the same time. In addition there is a 1338 to Skipton. So Shipley has 3 trains departing the same time in each direction of the triangle (Ilkley does miss out) -...

At Leeds platform 1 the pair of red lights on the buffers are both out. Looks like someone has put a smaller version of a bardic lamp on the buffers but it's switched off/dead. Are the lights essential for running trains into bay platforms or is it just a nice to have with a lot of redundancy?

Hi looking for some advice getting from King's Cross to a big supermarket beginning and ending with A in Park Royal (sorry for being cryptic but trying to keep worlds apart). Need to arrive during the evening rush and return to King's Cross for the 2133 or more likely the 2333. Getting there I...

I traveled today from Shipley to Bradford Forster Square using my Shipley to Leeds weekly season ticket on a smart card. The barriers at Bradford gave error 57 and rather than being let through as usual the staff all insisted my ticket wasn't valid and I had no choice but to buy a single to...

Just tuned in to the new GB News on Freeview. The audio and video quality is on par with the shopping channels and almost unintelligible. I had a look to see if I could cast to my TV but it seems not. What does everyone else think of GB News?

I'm now drinking more beer at home rather than at the pub for obvious reasons. But recently more and more canned beer I buy has a plastic sticker on the outside of the can rather than printed onto it. I hate the texture of many of them and even the smooth ones have a seam I don't like. Has...

Has anybody on here had much luck getting delay repay for a journey on a multimodal ticket? Northern are telling me they don't accept claims on MCards and indeed the Mcard terms and conditions say it's not eligible for Delay Repay. However recent correspondence in parliament casts doubt on this.

Hi, I wasn't sure where to put this on the forum. I booked a journey for my sister-in-law to visit with her dog over the bank holiday weekend but had an email from LNER alerting me that some of the trains have been cancelled. Looking into it it seems there are some engineering works and so GA...

Is a Shipley to Manchester Stations via Hebden Bridge ticket valid via Leeds. I can think of no reason why it wouldn't be, but I can't get an itinerary online. Thanks.

This is inspired by another where many people consider it abhorrent to ever be on a railway track. I can think of a few stations where use of a barrow crossing or similar is typical (although not necessarily the only way to cross the track). Gomshall and Horton immediately spring to mind as I...

My much younger brother, after asking my advice, bought a Leeds to Nottingham Advance (along with an Advance returning the same day) and also an Apperley Bridge to Leeds Anytime day return for travel on a Saturday in January. He made the mistake of buying an Anytime Day Return ticket to Leeds...

On a bit of an interail trip with the wife and we have spotted a few double deck trains. Are there any particular routes they run on? We would quite like to try one out. Our itinerary for the next few days is roughly Bruges to Antwerp then Rotterdam on Friday. Rotterdam to Amsterdam Saturday...

I had the displeasure yesterday of riding one of the new 60 buses in West Yorkshire (connecting Keighley to Leeds). Someone has decided it would be a fantastic idea to put in a pre-recorded announcement for every single bus stop. If it was a short tourist route and the announcements brief I...

Just been looking to help out a friend tomorrow and came across this: http://www.brtimes.com/#!train?uid=S44276&date=20170904&back=%23%21board%3fstn%3dSHY%26filt%3dLDS%26show%3ddep%26date%3d20170904 Is this likely to be an actual passenger service? Why is it all listed as "Does not set...

I regularly catch the East Coast train from Skipton to Kings Cross from Shipley platform 1. It's normally a 225 and everybody gets on via a local door either by the bridge or at the eastern end of the platform. During the Northern strike on Friday I was pleased to find the 0717 service...

Does anyone know if any progress is being made with widening Cow Lane bridge just west of Reading station? It seems to have been one delay after another.

Planning my next holiday with the Mrs we decided we'd like to spend a week in the Netherlands and Belgium. Rough plan is: a few days in Amsterdam a day in Rotterdam a day in Antwerp a day in Brussels a couple of days in Bruges We would be starting and returning from West Yorkshire...