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moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/northern-crossrail-leeds-manchester-receives-pm-backing.186996/#post-4125546 Indred, personally I’d like to see a much larger scheme with a Liverpool - Hull high speed line with a connection up to Newcastle on a 140mph ECML, a...

I was at Wool station earlier on the Weymouth line and the level crossing there seems to be causing traffic chaos. It’s placed on a major A-road and at a junction and it’s next to the station so has to wait for trains slowing down (and stopping and dispatching towards Weymouth). This can take...

Hi, I’ve got a slightly complicated situation that I’m not quite sure how to resolve. So I’ve used Train splitter to book tickets from Dore & Totley to Wareham at the beginning of July. I need to take a bike so I then went round no fewer than 4 companies to check their policies and made 4...

Hi, I'm looking at taking a bike from Sheffield down to Wareham in early July. I've looked at the bike policy for the relevant TOCs and XC seems fine in that you book a space, but SWR seem to have a 1st come 1st serve policy. This is hardly ideal on an advance ticket, is this ever a problem on...

Hi, Is there a reason why journeys across Glasgow are so ridiculously expensive when booked direct. For example, a Fort William to Carlisle advance for 1 adult costs £89 (unless you stay overnight in Glasgow, in which case £19!). However, if you book Fort William to Glasgow then Glasgow to...

Hi, just heard this from a friend who was on the 2C74 Hull to Sheffield Northern service. Apparently on arrival at Rotherham Central the platform was full of Notting Forest supporters who had just lost at Rotherham. The guard didn’t initially release the doors and the Forest supporters started...

Following on from the least fare evasion thread, which lines have the most fare evasion. I’ll nominate Sheffield to Meadowhall as a good start, no barriers, very rarely any ticket checks on the <10 min journey and if you are checked you can just buy one on board!

Hi, Looking at trains to London from Sheffield, it would appear to be both quicker and cheaper on a Sunday to change at Doncaster than to take the direct service to London, calling at all shacks. Is there a reason why EMT run such a dire Sunday service compared to other InterCity operators...

Following on from the curviest platforms, I was wondering what the steepest gradient in a station is. I think we'd better have two categories, one for National Rail Network and one for light rail/metro etc. I'd imagine some of the Scottish stations must be fairly high up on National Rail...

I found this excellent video by Doug Paulley on how one simple TPE cancellation affected the rest of his journey and day (pretty terribly too!), and it got me thinking about how this sort of thing can be avoided. Should TOCs have better systems to know when people have booked assistance and take...

Sorry if this already has a thread somewhere, but I thought that, given a couple of recent incidents involving trespassing, to look at the different attitudes abroad. For example, in the US/Canada, it is seen to be fairly normal to walk on many railway tracks in rural areas, even using them as...

I’ve noticed a couple of times recently that Northern have been running 150s down to Nottingham, both as single units and one I saw today was leading a 158 (even odder as they normally run 2 car). Is there a reason for this, are they short of 158s at the moment, or is it just due to engineering...

Hi, I bought two advance singles from Sheffield to Oxford for next week online, and they seem to have been misplaced sometime after we collected them from the station. What is the best thing to do now, can they be reprinted for a fee, or do I need to buy new tickets? Thanks in advance, Dan

Hi, I was travelling on a Eurostar yesterday, and happened to notice a class 700 sitting in Dollands Moor along side 66s and 92s. Does anyone know why it was there, it seems a long way out the way, and I know TL are running to Ashford now, but why the need for one in Folkstone? Thanks, Dan

I was looking at Realtime Trains, and discovered that Dore & Totley, fairly near me, has 27 trains a day eastbound and only 18 per day westbound in the new timetable - that's 50% more trains in one direction than the other. I was wondering if there were other stations around (before anyone says...

Hi, sorry if this has been mentioned already. I have just booked tickets from Chesterfield to Exeter on XC, and whilst booking them, the ticket price increased by £20. Is this just because I started booking in National Rail/XC website and then switched to the Trainline or what. Either way, it's...

Following on from a thread about platfors trains never depart from, I noticed the platforms at Newcastle Central seemed to have no logic to their numbering. It's like they tried to go clockwise (as in Edinburgh Waverley) but failed with the through platforms (and one or two others too). What...

So TPE are ordering new 397s for the Manchester - Scotland services. I don't quite understand why. There may be a completely obvious reason that I've missed, but as far as I can figure, the 350/4s seem perfectly capable (a couple short in number perhaps), and given their already brilliant...

How is the driving seperared on their long routes? For example, VTWC change crew at Preston and VTEC at Newcastle I think. They must change at Brum, but their Aberdeen - Penzance must require quite a few changes, where do these occur, or does it vary?

Seems a little bizarre, but it happens, interested to know where. By 'fast' I mean skipping several (more than 1) station at a time where other services stop. I'm going to start us off with Heysham port services run often by pacers that run fast Skipton to Leeds.