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    No National Rail sign outside my local station

    I'm not so sure about that, they could have put it in front of the transport interchange by the pedestrian crossing, for example.
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    No National Rail sign outside my local station

    Yes, I think they just forgot to put it back once the work was completed.
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    No National Rail sign outside my local station

    As far as I am aware, every station on the national rail network should have a sign outside with the double arrow symbol and the station name. Flitwick, my local station, doesn't. Are there any others?
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    Trivia: UK bus stations not fit for purpose

    Flitwick Interchange - three stands for only 2-3 buses an hour plus the occasional shuttle to Woburn Centre Parcs. Conveniently sited in front of the railway station but inconvenient for buses to actually stop there because of the road layout. Buses coming from the Ampthill direction drive past...
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    Quirky or quaint practices on buses in the past

    a similar arrangement happened in Luton in the 1960s Service 29 Airport - Town Centre -Priestleys Service 30 Priestleys -Town Centre - Limbury Serivice 31 Limbury - Town Centre - Airport Each route only operated in one direction. Leicester Corporation used to link routes across the...
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    United Counties Omnibus Ltd routes from Stony Stratford in the early 1960s

    I've just dug out my collection of old United Counties timetable books and the routes ran as follows in 1969 so should be similar to what ran in 1964. 130 ran via Sherington, Emberton and Olney 131 was jointly operated by City of Oxford and United Counties and ran on the same route as the 131...
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    Class 800 overshot Chippenham station (29/09)

    There's probably a cash register enthusiasts forum on the web somewhere where they discuss such things in minute detail:lol:
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    Northern 'names and shames' schools with high numbers of fare dodging pupils

    What is P-coding?
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    The "Red Oxford" or the green United Counties?

    When I was a child in the 1960s my family would regularly take the United Counties 61 bus from Luton to Aylesbury. The red, black and duck egg green livery of the City of Oxford buses I saw there was so much more impressive than the bland Tilling green livery of United Counties.
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    National Train Driver Day

    Surely June 9th would be more appropriate, George Stephenson's birthday.
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    What if the London & Birmingham and Midland Counties merged?

    Possibly the Birmingham & Gloucester railway would have been taken over by the Great Western instead of the Midland
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    Non standard track gauges that were and currently used in the UK

    The Southwold Railway in Suffolk was 3ft gauge, as was the Isle of Man railway.
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    Major Fire at Luton Airport (10/10/23)

    The main airport approach road and part of Vauxhall Way near the airport are closed. Traffic all around Luton is chaos this morning, took me an hour to get to work instead of the usual 30 minutes.
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    Trivia: Craziest/Weirdest bus terminus locations in London

    The Farmers Boy is in Kensworth on the road between Markyate and Whipsnade. It was a terminus on some journeys on the 364a from Luton and is still a timing point on Centrebus services 40 and 40a from Dunstable to Whipsnade.
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    Luton disused platform/siding

    Yes, it's the old parcel siding. There used to be a Red Star parcels office and a road van loading bay approximately where the taxi drop off point is now. I remember there were always a couple GUV parcels vans parked in the siding during the day, which I assume were picked up overnight.
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