Recent content by 6Gman

It looks as though it's user-worked, in which case they should be closed after use by the road user. But - as in many such instances - the users don't bother. (I don't know the area, so I may be wrong.) 1788027084 Reported by whom?

Confiscation of land and property tends to be unpopular, for obvious reasons.

I was a Borough Councillor for 20+ years and sat on the Development Control Committee for seven years. Never encountered any suggestion of "brown envelopes" (if by that you mean bribery). 1787762632 The bus stop you refer to here is nowhere near the proposed station. 4 buses per day (each...

It's a typo on a £3.15 UFN

Is it simply an Unpaid Fare Notice requesting payment? Seems a plausible explanation.

I've used 805s and 807s. The 805s are good but the 807s are excellent! Forum rules probably forbid using the traditional expression, but excrement off a spade comes to mind.

Thank you for finding this, but it all seems rather improbable. Commuters - the population of Heathfield is c.1500, Teigngrace 300. Does that point to a market for commuting to Newton Abbot? Stations - Ownership? Access? Track - Given people can drive from Heathfield to Newton Abbot on the...

We used to manage it quite competently. I suspect it's the loss of single comprehensive authority at individual locations that has contributed to this. 1787507955 It's partly down to different conditions of employment, rules on continuous work, breaks etc.

A friend and I spent a Saturday at Preston shortly after that - to say it was chaotic would be an understatement! To reduce engine changing in the station Blackpool-Scotland trains ran via the East Lancs, Lostock Hall, Farington. But it was taking an hour or more such was the congestion. So we...

Sunday cemetery (and special hospital) services used to be quite common. Though this is a rare survival. And 35 minutes seems about right for walk to grave, lay flowers, ponder life, walk back to bus stop.

Thousands of railway books have been published over the years but one huge gap is "Assistance Required: a history of banking and related matters" {title may need some tweaking}. A comprehensive record of where it was done, why it was done, and how it was done.

I have a theory. The L&Y/ Northern Lines/ Manchester Division offices were - were they not? - at Hunts Bank, opposite Victoria station. Immediately adjacent to Chetham's School & Library (which are still there, though the railway offices are long gone). Was "Cheetham" (it's often mis-spelt)...

Only doubt - woiuld a "manufacturer of metal products" be interested in salvaging huge tonnages of scrap? Also the phrasing of "Cheetham have placed contracts" reads as though it was Cheetham placing, rather than securing or tendering for, the contracts. All rather puzzling.

A friend of mine worked for a major pharmaceutical company which had such an arrangement. As a manager he was supposed to use the "suits" section but - being a principled, egalitarian type - he chose to use the "boots" section. It didn't last long as his lunch was one long session of the staff...

More people will want to take leave in July than in February. On that basis if you have staffing high enough to cover everything in July without overtime you are going to have excessive spare cover in February. Or you need to persuade people (or force them) to take annual leave at unpopular...