General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Owd Codger

As regards 'expensive' well nowt's cheep, but a new 3 mile long tunnel, would not cost billions, and I just checked again on google earth, and the track bed from Hadfield to Woodhead and from Dunford Bridge to Penistone, has NOT been built on.

Whupsy

After crossing the Pennines, there are several lines available to go south, but Beeching axed thousands of miles of railway lines, and in planning another route south, it might make more sense to reopen certain sections of the old pre Beeching network, the thing is that there are loads of different options available.

Ena

Did you actually travel on the Woodhead line ?

It closed to passenger traffic in 1970, but in the early 1970s I had a mate who also was a train enthusiast, and he kept meithering me in wanting to go to the Reddish TMD to have a look at the Class 76's, but when looking at pictures of them in me Ian Allen combined volume of train locos, which was the trainspotters bible, I did not like the look of the locos, I knew that the passenger services only went has far as Hadfield, and that would have been on the vilest looking of EMU's, so I wouldn't go, but I wish I had done so now, I did see the line in operation in the late 1970s, all be it from a distance in Manchester.

I do wish though, that I had gone on the Easter Tommy in 1981