General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Ena

"And there is no more certainty of seeing any of these other options see the light of day than there was for HS2"

Well yes, because these lot are good at coming out with the big ideas, but lousy in actually putting them into practice, as even their own voters say, they are 'useless' but as regards today, I am going to take heart from Sunak's announcement that the Woodhead route is reopening, and for the remainder of today, I am going to wallow in nostalgia, in me train sim program, and you mentioned the steam banking engines which used to push the heavy coal trains up the Worsborough incline towards Dunford Bridge, and one scenario I have is set at night in the snowy cowd winter of 1947, which has one steam loco and two banking engines, hauling a coal train up Worsborough, enroute to Manchester, and if you don't drive them just right, your loco's runs out of water