Recent content by cornishjohn

Because offal is "undesirable" most of it goes to pet food etc (or dodgy burgers). So the processing route for human consumption is low volume and therefore expensive to operate. There is probably also a "trendy" mark up for the fun of it. I once wanted 20 lambs tongues for a ren-faire event I...

Presumably there is a standard that defines what this distance should be? Is this line-speed dependent? What variation is permitted? Is this set by a second axle-counter or IBJ etc?

When (and why?) did reservations become free? I've just checked and they were 0/3/- in 1967(!) up to 60p in 1982. DB seem happy to charge a few euros for their reservations.

Not sure if you were referring to Birmingham/Leiceter here or not. But it can get it right (although not believing in the half hour for the link) e.g. (Google Chrome) But I also find (Google Chrome) and (MS Edge) I have noticed before that routing choices are sometimes dependent on initial...

makes sense to me. Unless you want two yellows for Uddingston but I'm not sure how that really helps - it indicates well enough that the last letter is not a "D".

I think the code is working, but it is a "feature" of the reasoning that it doesn't handle double letters. It would need another colour for "right place but also needed again". I'm getting the correct result for a one right place + one wrong place candidate. My day 41 isn't double lettered so...

Seems just as likely from Hornsey to start with "->Finsbury Park->St Pancras->Walk to Kings cross" as to start with "->Finsbury Park->Kings Cross"

The same signage can be found in the books "Tube Trains Under London", (1968)(Shown in 1959-62 stock), and "Steam to Silver" (1970)(Shown in R stock), although the dates of the photographs themselves are not obvious.

Is it? One of the accepted ID's for issue of the Veterans card is a MOD90, which is the ID for serving personnel... I dont know the answer to the OPs question though.

In the good old days I did use occasional Advance tickets fairly early on the connection leg(s). No ticket inspector ever batted an eyelid, however, the "No break of journey" rule is (or was) still in play. In practice, you don't (or didn't) break your journey if you stay inside the gateline, so...

Cheaper than the combined ticket then... With only three ferries a day that seems overkill. Any idea why it cannot run to the pier head any more?

*edit* there is a bus connection stromness\kirkwall, so I hope it is this. But am not in a position to confirm this. I thought I saw this on the website but maybe I dreamt it. >> AFAIK there's nowhere in Orkney to print train tickets. Is there a retailer that will sell these tickets then post...

Its quite a walk to the ferry and the bus connection used to vary between sketchy and not there at all. Yes. I dont have any up to date gen on these tickets, but they are\were quite handy. There's no point thinking about reservations for the Stromness ferry, these are quite big enough for the...

https://www.scotrail.co.uk/tickets/combined-tickets-travel-passes/rail-and-sail says they (still) are. My mum used to use these tickets quite a bit. Never had any trouble showing the tickets to the ferry people at the time, as this is now quite a few years ago. They just printed off a boarding...

This makes me think of the Central line at London Stratford.