Showing posts with label Sheffield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sheffield. Show all posts
Thursday, September 17, 2026

Council to help people 'correctly identify' potholes

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BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award for this tale from Yorkshire, where a Sheffield City Council reports claims there is "conf...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Our universities aren't just managerialist: they're authoritarian

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Britain's universities aren't just getting rid of the arts and humanities: they're getting rid of collegiate governance too. Her...
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Friday, July 17, 2026

East Midlands Railway cancels 20 fast services a day because of problems with its new trains

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East Midlands Railways has admitted that its problems with its new trains have not all been caused by the recent hot weather. BBC News repo...
Friday, February 06, 2026

The lost streets of Park Hill, Sheffield

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Any regular user of Sheffield station will be familiar with the Park Hill flats on the hillside above it. Until they were built between 1957...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Exploring the rivers that flow beneath Sheffield station

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Martin Zero and two companions follow the Porter Brook and then the River Sheaf beneath Sheffield, and beneath the city's railway statio...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Nationwide from 1970: A haunted Sheffield nightclub

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If you want a portrait of Britain in the Seventies, you can't beat Nationwide . This was a news magazine programme shown every weekday e...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Joy of Six 1409

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Dominic Bryan , who has researched the politics of flags in Northern Ireland for decades, sets out what England needs to understand: "W...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Sheffield to Penistone via Deepcar in 1983

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This is just what it was like when I was a lad. Until 1983, trains from Sheffield to Huddersfield ran under the wires of the Woodhead route ...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Electrification of the Midland Mainline is paused yet again

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Yesterday the news was full of stories about government investment in the railways: today we heard a familiar story in this part of the worl...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Duke of Rutland is urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor to the people of Sheffield

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The campaign group Reclaim Our Moors wants the Duke of Rutland to to sell Moscar Moor near Sheffield for £1 because they think it is in such...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Searching for what was once Dinting Railway Centre

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Dinting is a station on the Glossop line from Manchester Piccadilly and was also on the Great Central's Woodhead route from Manchester t...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

New Statesman: Lib Dems cheered and baffled by Kemi Badenoch

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Embed from Getty Images The Liberal Democrats have two strategic objectives in this parliament.  One is to be a better opposition than the C...
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Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Woodhead railway tunnels to Hadfield today

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I first saw the Woodhead route - the lost railway from Sheffield to Manchester - in the summer of 1978. In those days Sheffield to Huddersfi...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

What lies beneath Sheffield Station? Welcome to The Megatron

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Martin Zero says on YouTube: Join me for an exploration of the Victorian tunnels and culverts that run underneath Sheffield Station. These t...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Exploring what remains of Sheffield Victoria

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I don't remember Sheffield Victoria being open, but I do remember when Sheffield to Huddersfield trains ran via Penistone and passed thr...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

For the first time in 37 years a new parliament will meet without a member of the cast of The Railway Children

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Whatever happens in the general election, the new parliament will be the first without a member of the cast of The Railway Children for 37 y...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Forget abandoned railways: this is an abandoned Sheffield road

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Another outing with Trekking Exploration - find out how to support this channel .
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire preserved lengths of the Great Central Railway to be reunited this weekend

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Exciting news from the Great Central Railway : Join us for this spectacular weekend as we reunify the Great Central Railway and the Great Ce...
Friday, March 01, 2024

The Joy of Six 1208

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"There’s not even the tiniest attempt to explain how globalists and socialists and Islamists can all be running Britain. The only coher...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

The blasphemous story of XTC and Dear God

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This is a good video on XTC, the tensions within the band and the genesis and extraordinary success of their song Dear God. I love the story...