Recent content by yorksrob

I've read it and it is full of flaws. One only has to look at the worked example of York to Beverley to see the worst. I'd recommend everyone reading both of Beeching's reports. The second one is even more nonsensical than the first.

Got to be someone's I suppose lol 1717257649 I don't get the same depression with the ones with a decent layout to be fare.

No more HST's on the Midland Mainline is a particularly sad loss IMO.

Indeed :)

I must admit that while the traction's becoming a bit dull these days, the network's still quite interesting, particularly some of the quieter by-ways.

It's quite often for the train to be there, but for people to be waiting for it to be unlocked. This often happens when another train is sharing the platform.

It's a shame they couldn't put proper seats on platform 1/0, rather than those ridiculous perch things.

Removing duplicate routes has time and time again proved to be a terrible idea. He should have stayed making paint. Anyhow, back to this line, I certainly think that it would be as successful as the Windermere line.

Beeching was clueless about railways. The whole premise of removing duplicate routes was deeply flawed, and showed a complete lack of understanding issues such as severe weather and periodic renewals etc. At one point he extols the virtue of freight trains travelling at uniform speeds and at...

It might be a reality of the business case, however it demonstrates that the methodology of the business case is anti-rail as it fails to take account of the many potential benefits of a rail connection.

The point is, that the anti-rail brigade will jump upon any sense of diversionary capability for a proposal and come up with "oh, you can't make a case on diversions" when many proposed routes are worthwhile as part of the day to day network.

I would hope that Sir John Betjeman would have been afforded similar leeway on account of being a stalwart of the struggle to get free of Beeching and the disastrous closure programme. I suspect not though, sadly.

NSE coming back and giving it a lick of paint ?

It's a pretty important interchange with LU, and well populated locality, so I would say probably yes.

I'd hope that they wouldn't rely on "plans for the new station" to resolve the issue. Aren't these where the old Adolphus street goods depot used to be and therefore miles away from the centre !