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    New Mills Central landslip - 6 week closure

    It's been the wettest winter since records began in Sheffield.
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    The hole is very deep on one track. How badly damaged is the other? Could it support a very slow movement across it, possibly with some additional support?
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    Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen?

    I stand corrected, only just north of the Tees:s Must have confused it with former RAF Croft where I watched a Red Arrows display in 1972 when living in Richmond.
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Presumably the damaged 195s will have an impact on serviceable unit availability for some time. The second unit may have suffered minimal damage?
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    People buying houses with associated noise (churches, railways etc) and then complaining about the noise?

    Are there any church bells near Altnabreac? I used to stay in a house immediately opposite a church with a striking clock. I'm fairly sure it got silenced at night some years ago. Presumably no news from Altnabreac? Moderator note: any further discussion regarding the Altnabreac situation...
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    Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen?

    RAF Middleton St George, Teesside Airport, was in North Yorkshire so with Humberside there are 3.
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    As far as I understand it the exemption was granted until CDL was fitted, at least as far as ORR was concerned. It appears to have been taken as a perpetual exemption by the operators who then failed to adequately adhere to the conditions imposed or give details of how they intended to fully...
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    New Mills Central landslip - 6 week closure

    A lesser example of what is happening all the time on the Snake (and even more so below Mam Tor) but you'd never run a railway there! They serve aa examples of how difficult it is to maintain an undulating road let alone a flat railway.
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    New Mills Central landslip - 6 week closure

    Clever things trees, they'll takeover anywhere and everywhere if given the opportunity. But returning to New Mills. Have I missed a picture of the damage that requires 6 weeks to resolve? Landslide, land slip, subsidence are all more likely in very wet conditions like we've experienced this...
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    Why are XC allowed to continue?

    Indeed. Ticket sales are a guide to demand but need deeper understanding. My latest XC journeys have been Chesterfield - Cheltenham. Roughly half the price to book in 3 stages, Chesterfield- Derby - Birmingham - Cheltenham. CHD is my easiest station to reach when going south. My nearest XC...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Curious, the stopper was on time at Chinley.
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    Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen?

    However a lot seem to be bedazzled by foreign holidays to the sun from their local airport, destination not all that important. But it's the business travellers paying full fares to reach specific places on specific dates who most want it to reopen to regenerate the local economy. They'll not...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    For consistency with whole line signalling apparently, the westbound platform is on the up line to Manchester whereas it's down to Sheffield from both Manchester and London.. An observation first about freight - they seem to be coming faster through the old platform, now down Platform 2...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    It will be interesting to see how all aspects work out in practice. Drax trains have been routed this way adding much time to their journey and limiting, if not cancelling passenger service performance improvements. In 3 - 6 months time we'll be able to assess how it's going. Neither TPE nor...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    The more you see of politics the more you can only despair. The LibDem councillors have known the backgound to this for years, or should have done if they'd been listening. The journalist writing the article has also known the background to why it is as it is but must find it too difficult to...
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    EMR Class 170 updates

    It must have been 5 or 6 years ago that I travelled to Norwich on an EMR 158 that had very recently had some upgrades, powerful toilets that blasted a jet of of water high in the air when flushed were particularly memorable! There were well hidden USBs and enhanced information screens. On an...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    All hands on deck today. TPE, EMR, Northern jackets all in evidence checking it out for Monday. Much still to do.
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    Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen?

    Despite encountering some traffic congestion on my journeys to and from Manchester Airport yesterday from my side of Sheffield both took less than 90 minutes by car. I know I can reach DSA in 50 minutes. From the east side of Sheffield the comparison will be much more in DSAs favour. Yesterday...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Wirh only 4 more days of possession left there's no sign of that happening.
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    First picture shows remains of the pond/swamp that was bedevilling construction round the curve. It's still very wet down there.

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