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I like the 'The Ham & Cheese' bus stop on the Leeds-bound Coastliner journey. It is of course named after the adjacent pub. I always mean to leave the bus and sample the beer and perhaps a sandwich, but I never do. perhaps tomorrow.

Once upon a time, Bury Bolton Street. Radcliffe or Heywood and Summerseat or Holcombe Brook.

There were several old engines stationary alongside the carriage sheds at Cheetham Hill Jnc. in Manchester. Another aspect of steam heating is that many passengers did not realise how you could control it, often with that big knob next to the window,

Did boat trains run to Fleetwood about 1950 because I have a very distant memory of standing as a small child on the footplate of what I was told was one. If true did it come from Manchester?

Sitting downstairs on a 415 last week, I noticed two small posters stating 'New Buses in 2026'. I would be rather upset if this meant 9 year old buses. Speaking as a passenger the service works pretty well but most of the buses do look dowdy and some of them leak.

The Nantlle railway ran from Pen-y-Groes to Caernarvon. This was a narrow gauge horse-drawn railway that was converted to standard gauge in the 1860s. So you could claim the whole route of the Welsh Highland and Nantlle railway have provided a narrow gauge route to Caernarvon.

Are Rail/Sail tickets still available? The tickets through Harwich looked a bargain, was it from anywhere in eastern England (Peterborough and further south) to anywhere in the Netherlands. Likewise tickets from Belfast to Cairnryan to a station in the UK. I think we paid £25 for Belfast to York...

You can stay at the station ..... renting the former stationmaster's house.

Although the wool and linen trade were well established in Yorkshire, the initial growth of the cotton industry included a substantial number of cotton mills in Yorkshire. It was only later that many of these mills, and new ones, processed wool. One reason for this is that it took longer to...

I also think the convenience of a car may not be a good thing. The physical aspects of using public transport help to keep us in good health: walking, meeting other people, fresh air, standing, all help.

At that time, walking through the undercroft at St Pancras was quite an experience, almost total darkness and taxis, but a quick route from the Library to Kings Cross.

Opened in 1883, an early steam tramway the Manchester, Bury, Rochdale and Oldham Steam Tramways Co. Ltd was an interurban tramway serving Manchester, its northern suburbs, Prestwich, Radcliffe, Bury, Heywood, Rochdale, Middleton and Oldham. Here is a link. Nearly all of this was taken over by...

Yes the level crossing at Whitley Bridge certainly needs some attention, see (streetview} :) The A19 provides a bridge over the line which avoids the level crossing. Locals will used to closures as the trains to Drax pass through. There appears plenty of room for car parking either side of the...

On the two occasions my phone had insufficient charge to display a ticket, the ticket office has had the capability to charge a phone for a few minutes which is all you need. I usually carry a USB C cable to charge my phone on a train if necessary, sometimes trains don't have a working socket or...

The proposed housing ( https://www.banksgroup.co.uk/projects/eggborough-west/ 1,500 dwellings) is next to the railway line and within walking distance to the station. The old power station site is intended for industrial use, power generation and data centres. Kellingley is intended for...