Similar to the Metro and bus threads and inspired by talk of the old lines at South Pelaw and Washington - a rail suggestions thread.
 
Paths and infrastructure may mean these can't be delivered. Then there is cost - but on a boring afternoon of office based admin, I have identified the following suggestions.
 
Lines to be re-opened or converted to passenger use:
* Barley Mow to Leamside Line at Washington
* Leamside Line between Ferryhill/Hart and Pelaw
* B&T Line upto Ashington
* Stillington line between Ferryhill and Norton
 
New stations located at:
* Barley Mow. Ideal location on the county border, located near housing and key employment locations. Mainline and local services can call here on split level platforms. Slow lines to be reinstated on ECML.
* Fencehouses. On site of old station
* Penshaw. On site of old pop factory
* Washington South. Old station site
* Washington North. New P&R site close to Nissan/A1231
* Durham P&R.
* Stockton Parkway. Located on the 'triangle' south of Stockton. Platforms on each side, similar to Shipley. One side of the station would need to be a walk away from the other two – or, the track line is adapted
* Norton Parkway. Located on the 'triangle' north of Stockton. Platforms on each side, similar to Shipley. (This would mean that a whole estate of new houses would need to be demolished).
* Stillington
* Ferryhill. Slow lines reinstated with access to both Stillington and Leamside Lines.
* Peterlee
* All B&T stations as per proposals.
 
Routes:
·        Barley Mow – Leamside Line – Pelaw – Heworth – Newcastle – Metrocentre (1tp2h)
·        Darlington – all stations to Stockton Parkway – Stockton – Norton Parkway – Stillington – Ferryhill – Leamside Line - Pelaw – Heworth – Newcastle (1tp2h)
·        Ferryhill – Leamside Line - Pelaw – Heworth – Newcastle - Metrocentre (1tph)
·        Ferryhill – Stillington – Norton Parkway – Billingham – Seaton – Hartlepool (1tph)
·        Barley Mow – Newcastle – Manors and B&T to Ashington (1tp2h)
·        Metrocentre – Newcastle – Manors and B&T to Ashington (1tp2h)
·        All other routes/combinations to stay as they are, calling at new stations if required.

This week's Herald & Post.

As last season, would it be ok to us this seperate thread for football results, we have a few Stelling Wannabes and I think it is best to keep results seperate to stop clogging up the main footy thread

The title says it all.

Saw Chesney (?) out of Corrie.
Do I get bonus points with him being asleep?

Hello All,

I was looking at the current vehicle allocation at the Whitby depot of Arriva North East and was trying to establish which routes each vehicle types are normally allocated to.

I assume the following;

Darts 1103/1104/1105  work the local's 94/95 services

Streetlite's 1560-1562  work the X4/4 services

Dart 1759 on the local Sainsbury's contract

Solo's 2827/2828 and Volvo B7TL on the P1/P2 Park & Ride services

B9TL's 7401-7406 0n the X93


However, can anyone identify what service Temsa 4701 is used on ?

Thanks in advance

It's slowly getting better but it's far from perfect.

It's even worse now on the Seafront now it's a shared footpath without a decidcated lane for cyclists. This now makes it even more unuseable to me for not my safety but for pedistrains partciullay little kids.

However the award for the biggest waste of money has to go to Glasgow...
See this blog. Unbelievable!

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Also does anyone else cycle? Anyone part of a club? Anyone on Strava that I could follow?!

The google maps 'Street View' car has been everywhere in the world nearly and sometimes when I get bored I like to look at old buses on the street view - it's so fun to look around for them, so I've decided to create a thread where you post coordinates from Google maps of buses that have been spotted on street view.

I'll start -

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.471644...312!8i6656 - the coolest stop ever in Craster, up the Northumberland coast.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.042484...56!6m1!1e1 - An old Arriva Midibus in Whitley Bay

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.889888...56!6m1!1e1 - Not everybody in Sleepy Valley is sleepy.

I see that I have 55 likes. Is there a way of seeing which posts have been liked? I had a look in User CP but couldn't find an option?!

As we seem to be able to drift off down memory lane quite a lot in the mainstream threads, I figured we could do with a thread relating to people's memories. 

Marcus

New to Wardley Coaches is Bova Futura C70F, registration OAY 294 ex Cochranes of Peterlee.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gpr_bus_ph...ed-public/