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I well remember the later years of the original Liverpool Central when all that remained was an empty shell with a few trains to Gateacre when the easiest and most pleasant access to the Low Level station was through Lewis's store

Co-incidentally, I used an unmarked stop at the weekend for the first time in many years. It wasn't made easy by being at a complex junction of five A, B and unclassified roads with three of the roads controlled by traffic lights at a T-junction, the other routes joining about 20m from the...

Amberley and Martin Mill stations were both post offices, as were many others on the Southern and across Scotland. Interestingly, the post office on Amberley Station was known as Houghton Bridge Post Office whereas it was Martin Mill Station Post Office. Station post offices were notable by...

Derbyshire Wayfarer is valid on the lines in the west of the county - Buxton-New Mills & Sheffield-New Mills

Good news - the site has been steadily restored, the railway maps are now back up and available

I agree the ride wasn't as long as I expected, but there again another 100 meters or even 2 or 3 km of tunnel would have offered little more, there's nothing to see in the straight tunnel. The old rolling stock, track, station and the whole environment make for the experience, not just another...

I was in Lyme Regis at the weekend where I spotted a very rough wooden box in a wall. The blue plaque above indicates it's in the old post office and is one of the oldest in the country - although not in use as such today. Lyme Regis was a Post Town by 1701 so the town would have been well...

Did the State-owned GPO have to pay the owner of a wall if it wanted to put a letter box in it? Or did it have the power to install one without needing permission? The GPO - and the present day Royal Mail - have the right to install public letter boxes in any street should it so chose with no...

Well said Cross City - it's an excellent diagram, not a bad map. Project Mapping - the clue is in the name - have taken cartography back to the dark ages.

I didn't have it to hand yesterday, but now I have book you need. Joe Brown's Liverpool & Manchester Railways Atlas published 2021 by Crecy Publishing

RCH maps were great for showing company lines but there was a dense network of private lines. I lived on the Wirral in the late 60s and was fascinated by the MDHB (Mersey Docks & Harbour Board) lines.Several public roads ran across the docks from Birkenhead to Wallasey crossing swing bridges...

The Transpeak doesn't follow the A6 between Bakewell and Buxton, it takes the A5270. Needs a change onto the 65 Stagecoach service at Blackwell Turn - always assuming the A6 is taken to be a truck road.

Steeple Grange Light Railway near Wirksworth in Derbyshire has one or even possibly two halts/platforms on its route between the two termini. It's been a very long time since I last travelled on the line but I can't imagine either gets any passenger use.

Port Sunlight - was on a 4 track section of line which only had platforms on the two outer tracks which were paired by speed - never sure which was which. Line reduced to 3 tracks and new platform built on the old up line. Then eventually reduced to 2 tracks as per current layout.

Prompted by this thread to look at a bound copy of the 1898 Railway Magazine I acquired a few years ago, one particular obituary caught my eye - Lord Sackville Arthur Cecil, half brother to the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury. 'He was born 1848...and whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge he made...