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    How fast could the Calder Valley get?

    The Transpennine Upgrade is focusing mainly on the Huddersfield Line; reduced journey times are a major part of this package. But could timings on the Calder Valley, typically seen as the slower route, be improved as well? At the minute services take about 1hr 20 but it seems this could be...
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    Least successful new stations

    There's a lot of chat about the relative success of reopened lines, but which post-1980 reopened stations (on existing lines) have been the least successful? My vote goes to Moss Side on the Blackpool South line, reopened in 1983 and provided with an hourly service. It only gets about 3k...
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    Trivia - stations with too many platforms

    We seem to have a lot of threads on here about stations that could do with another platform, or a line that needs reopening, or a new service that needs creating. What about the opposite - stations that are overprovided for in terms of platforms? Most excess platforms have been rationalised away...
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    Railway Geography: Winners and Losers

    I thought this'd be an interesting question - which towns/cities receive a better or worse service than they deserve based on population, due to their location on the railway? I'll start with a couple of northeastern examples. Sunderland gets a pretty awful service, with 1tph to Newcastle and...
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    Trivia - journey which requires the most changes

    Which journey from one British station to another requires the most changes? A few rules - firstly, the route needs to be as short as possible. You shouldn't go from Manchester to Euston with a change at Birmingham New Street, for example - since a direct Manchester-Euston service exists, this...
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    Rural line reopenings - which one?

    Frequently posters on this forum will advocate the reopening of obscure rural lines to connect X and Y. Some are for sound reasons, some for less sound reasons, and some purely for nostalgia. You are allowed to reopen one line, anywhere in the country. Why this line? What problem will it solve...
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    Could the Harrogate Line be split?

    The Harrogate Line is something of an oddity, in that it has two distinctly operated sections. Leeds-Harrogate is predominantly (though not completely) urban, with double track and a 3tph all stations service, and a total usage of around 4.4 million (Burley Park-Harrogate inclusive). However...
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    Which lines are most suitable for conversion to light rail lines?

    Which National Rail lines are best suited to conversion to metro, tram or tram-train operation? I'll kick things off: the Leeds-Bradford line via New Pudsey. There's only a couple of through trains per hour which could probably be better routed via Dewsbury, and it passes through a densely...
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    Easiest/hardest franchises to manage?

    First post here so apologies if I've put it in the wrong place or the formatting is incorrect. I was wondering earlier about which franchises are the hardest, or easiest, to manage. There's obviously a large range of factors affecting this - passenger volume, character of areas served, extent of...

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