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Yes, I was just about to suggest similar based on its very late start from Tyne Yard and its very protracted journey across to Carlisle..

If the timings at Carlisle match this as it was a very late arrival, then yes 6Z78. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:05789/2023-10-21/detailed

Difficult to feel much, if any, sympathy for them. I’ll reserve my sympathy for any other unfortunate road user caught up in the incident, and of course, the emergency services who would have had to clear up the mess and cart the individuals off to the local hospital.

To be fair, in this instance, to the Royal Mail, that could just as easily be attributed to issues at the NHS as some other recent press reports have confirmed.

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And here they are, further into today's schedule, in the afternoon sunshine approaching Brighouse. Colas 66849 Wylam Dilly and 66847 Terry Baker, 3S14 Grimsby Town - York Thrall Europa - 18th October 2023.

On 25th September 2023, Locomotive Services Limited's 57311 stands outside the paint shop at Eastleigh Arlington.

This isn't cheap, but I've seen them on offer before through their online shop. Plus it does at least support the London Transport Museum. Several different designs are available. The case that I have has, so far, lasted a couple of years. https://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/clothing/clothing-accessories/accessories/glasses-case-underground-lines

I’d be reasonably confident that, as you say, the plans were well advanced. What probably wasn’t and I would hazard a guess isn’t is the available budget, either from the Defence budget, or elsewhere to fund the delivery of the plan.

What little beauties.

Which presumably by removing the safeguarding, would have the effect after any change of government at the next general election, of preventing any easy resurrection of HS2 plans north of Birmingham.

Indeed. He was very critical in the run up to rail privatisation as I recall, calling it a 'poll tax on wheels'. I'm not sure that his criticism would be tolerated in the party these days I dread to think what he'd make of todays announcement.

It's certainly not the only town in West Yorkshire that has traffic congestion, as I'm sure you know Jamie, but like many in this part of the country, that has much to do with the topography as anything else. Yes, it could be considered marginal. It was held by the 'other lot' until the current incumbent was elected in 2005.

It's a town along the Aire valley to the west of Leeds and north of Bradford. In days gone by there used to be a very good model railway show in the town in early September each year.

Ah well. After all the rhetoric, sound bites and headlines, the devil of 'Network North' will be in the detail. Of which at the moment there's precious little. I'm 64 years old. With average male mortality currently in the low 80s I think I can be reasonably confident that I wont be alive to see the benefit of what Network North, eventually, may or may not deliver.

Absolutely. 100%. Spot on. And of course resolving this problem is unfortunately the root of the problem in the UK, as it’s where politics in all its different hues and dimensions has inevitably to enter the equation.

You're missing absolutely nothing at all. In very basic terms, your description is an illustration of the economic theory of the 'fiscal multiplier' and the 'circular flow of money'.

I think you're being far too polite. This whole episode is now one gigantic Sh1t Show. The ones I really feel sorry for are the hundreds of men and women up and down the country actively working to deliver HS2 for the country. To misquote Churchill 'Never have so many been let down by so few'.

And here are the pair a little later on the circuit on 2nd October 2023 - 66847 Terry Baker with 66849 Wylam Dilly at Brighouse with 3S14, Grimsby Town to York Thrall Europa. Earlier on 2nd October, MPV DR98954/98904 passing through Brighouse with 3S08, Wigan LIP to Wigan LIP, via various lines in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.

Oh the irony.

I too was happy to support the Wakefield club in exchange for £9, and enjoyed my visit today. It was a shame that Squires weren't there, I had my shopping list prepared, but hey ho. Highlights for me, for a variety of reasons - Boomerang Lane, Burnroyd Works, Deadman's Lane and Downtown USA. Also, a grateful thanks to the helpful chap from Normanton & Pontefract RMS, who invited me behind the barriers to show me the finer detail and construction of his Box Hill Depot and similar Box Hill Crossing and Box Hill Cement layouts. You did much to rekindle my imagination and enthusiasm for building a realistic layout in a small space. Thanks very much.

Network Rail Video Inspection Unit 153311 on a tour of various lines around Yorkshire on 29th September 2023, passing through Brighouse working as 2Q14, Wakefield Prison Sidings to Derby RTC.

Great. I’ll look forward to seeing them in action on Saturday.

Not wanting to challenge your geography or sense of direction, but are you sure that the 56s were headed south? Two Colas 56s, 56049 Robin of Templecombe 1938-2013 and 56094, were working north through the area on 6S31, Doncaster Up Decoy Yard to Millerhill, around 2pm ish. 6S31 Doncaster Up Decoy Yard to Millerhill According to a TOPS list no other Colas 56s were in the area around that time.

TransPennine Express 68025 Superb and Mark5A set TP07 head along the Calder Valley at Brighouse on 28th September 2023, working as 5Q32 Gascoigne Wood Sidings to Longsight Carriage Maintenance Depot.