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Sadly Bradford Council is all about city centre vanity projects at a great cost that they can’t afford rather than solving actual problems to help everyone in their jurisdiction.

Yes and there’s a hell of a lot of amnesia regarding lack of capacity for terminating XC services all day. It doesn’t matter how many times it’s explained that it would mean something else would have to give (most likely a local service and a TPE) it gets trotted out in the seemingly monthly...

Yes.

Do you think GWR, Scotrail, TfW rail, LNER, Avanti and XC are too big and sprawly too? Some of these cover much larger areas than Northern. Northern has offices in York (main HQ), Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and Preston. They are responsible for their own operating area individually whilst...

I think the poster was suggesting the short Morecambe branch which has a much more frequent service than the LNW route via Bentham. It would be a small win to electrify that short branch (as would Windermere) but those services would still be served by the new bi-mode units that will replace...

They will be booked for 4 car or 6 car so no worries there. There’s no room for 8 car trains. Shipley depot has been designed for 331/333’s and the recent track/signalling works for Leeds platforms 0-6 accounts for the planned max 6 car formations. Skipton Broughton Road sidings wouldn’t...

There’s no plans to make any other 3 cars as there’s no capacity in the fleet. They will be replaced by the end of the decade thankfully as they are planned to be the first to be replaced by the new fleet.

The trouble is that then you’d be looking at reducing services and/or coaches elsewhere as the daily usage for 150’s is high from both depots, Fine in theory but if you disband or change the units in the centre cars you lose a unit whilst it is PRM’d. Only 1 unit (005) has a PRM toilet centre...

The plan was always for 4 to be done from 6 units once 150001 & 002 arrived. This was duly done and they work on the Penistone Line (3 units) & Leeds - Sheffield via Moorthorpe (2 units) with one on maintenance at NL.

P17 will happen it’s just a case of when (others may be in a better place to answer this). This is the only practical platform enhancement left to do. Platform 0 and the associated works that went with it sorted out capacity at that side of the station. The only issue left will be through...

It covers the barrier area but the rest of it is office space at ground floor level.

It’s definitely far better than the pre 2000 station and the recent upgrades have massively helped. The taxi stand will be by the new entrance from what I understand. Future plans include demolishing the admin block to further extend the concourse. This will mean moving Traincrew and station...

It’s not too bad but noticeable compared to the other stations (Horton on the up excepted of course!). The wonderous days of Railtrack subbing. Sorry driven it off thread. At least Leeds station is getting some TLC. I always feel that the Leeds 1st rebuild although good at the time hasn’t dated...

Of course. It made me giggle thinking that someone had looked at the plans sideways and decided to extend them across the track. It reminds of something from about 25-30 years ago. Way back when the S&C platforms were being raised the platform at Long Preston was also due to be lengthened...

Crikey have they stretched them across the track between 15 & 16? ;)

Of course there’s no guarantee that after 2nd May it will be a Labour Mayor.

Did you not read my post below that one? They’re both booked to be 156’s.

You intimated that a sprung base is just springs. A sprung base is also full of a flammable material to make the base soft. If it was just springs it would be the most uncomfortable seat ever.

A sprung base is more than just springs though.

Well it’s in their diagrams for June so unless anything changes….