Tony & Lynda recently acquired a new railway picture to add to their collection on the pub walls. But what is it of and where was it taken? The first correct answer (verified somehow!) gets a free pint from me in The Railway. Dunham Big Tree, Black Sheep, guest ale or some of that fizzy [...]
Member Dave Hoolihan was a little surprised one Friday afternoon before Christmas to find himself on the 1719 Stockport to Navigation Road section sitting opposite someone who looked remarkably like Michael Portillo. The conversation went something like this …. “Excuse me, do I recognise you from somewhere?” The Michael Portillo lookalike holds out his hand [...]
Those of us changing onto Metrolink trams at Altrincham will know that the real-time information departure displays installed over 3 years ago are still boarded up with plywood. Very frustrating! The dispute over the costs of the system has progressed to the courts with an interim ruling given recently by Mr Justice Akenhead. There’s a [...]
Yes, it’s in Modern Railways so it must be true. According to the very well informed Roger Ford in December 2012′s issue, Northern is the only English TOC to be doing sufficiently well that it had to repay some of its subsidy (called “Revenue Share”) to the DfT. Northern is the largest TOC in England [...]
I was having a sort out recently and came across this …. 27 years on. What a huge change! There’s more detail in the pdfs below. The cover is around 5Mb – GM Rlys 1985 – Outer …. …. and the diagrammatic map around 3Mb – GM Rlys 1985 – Map Post-Metrolink, the diversion our [...]
Sounds like an advert for a mint? But, No! Read on …. Northern has 42 class 156 2-car Super Sprinter trains of which 28 are based at Allerton, the remainder being at Heaton, Newcastle. 18 of the 28 were inherited from First North Western (FNW), the others coming from Arriva Trains Northern. The FNW ones [...]
Who’d have thought when John Hulme came up with the idea of this Blog back in October 2009 that a blog primarily about the lines in Mid Cheshire would in 3 years get over 60,000 hits. But it has! As I post this we’ve just passed 62,000. Since we started we’ve put up 366 posts [...]
Many of you will know Chris Lodington. For years he’s been the Trains Manager at Chester, often boarding the 1st Chester-bound train at Cuddington and helping the conductor with the doors whilst they caught up with selling tickets. His regular train back from Chester was the 1607. His leaving “do” was on 20 October (see [...]
Members should have received their printed copies of the Rail Report last week together with the new timetable and subscription renewal forms (but you can renew using our website and save a stamp!) We’ve used a new distribution system. Those dispatched electronically should get these next week. Things often change fast on “the Railway”. Andrew [...]
On Monday evening BBC Inside Out North West showed a programme which we had been told was primarily about “Why do we have so much overcrowding and so many old trains compared to much of the rest of the UK.” Through contacts at TravelWatch North West, I was contacted and asked to do an interview. [...]
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