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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    I would think that subscriptions are attractive to publishers as it guarantees sales every month.Whilst they have to pay the postage, they dont't have to pay commission to the seller. Equally they can tailor the print run more accurately and reduce wastage due to sale or return, which looking at...
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    I subscribe to 3 magazines. All 3 (and I suspect many others) are offering all sorts of special offers for subscriptions - they are obviously worried about losing the casual sales from TGJ. Said magazines are a bit specialist and are not stocked by supermarkets.
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    I popped into Droitwich TGJ yesterday -- the shop was busier for the closing down sale than I've seen it for years. There are rumours that the Worcester shop (which includes a Post Office on the first floor) is closing in November, but they've not started the closing down sale yet.
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    longbridge to worcester foregate street on easements 700473 and 700474

    The 144 service has been reduced to half hourly - pre Covid it ran every 15 minutes. It has been pretty reliable recently. If the OP wanted to go via Parkway, the X50 Evesham - Worcester bus calls there every 30 minutes.
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    National Preservation Forum

    Not accessible again today. If it carries on like this it will lose it's relevance as people won't bother to visit.
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    Buying back heritage lines

    Most of those travelling on the bus after 0930 will be doing it for free with their OAP Bus Passes.
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    Mountain Warehouse in Worcester today was running a Closing Down Sale
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    Older Person's Bus Pass (England)

    My wife and I travel occasionally on buses in London with our Worcestershire passes. The driver invariably just waves us past.
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    The extortionate prices of postage stamps these days.

    Are your 5 or 6 letters per day from the NHS?
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    Railcard renewal - demanding mobile number

    I got a reduction of £5 per month from BT for ceasing the landline.
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    Railcard renewal - demanding mobile number

    We ceased our landline earlier this year as the only calls we ever received on that were scams. Those we actually wanted to speak to had our mobile numbers.
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    Railway Memorabilia/Items to move on

    Books are pretty much worthless. Every Heritage Railway is awash with second hand books. For the other bits and bobs try https://www.gwra.co.uk/
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    We were in Prague and Budapest a year ago and the air raid sirens were tested in both cities whilst we were there.
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    Mk1 toilets and signs stating "do not flush in stations"

    Why not? Have you never seen farmers muck spreading?
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    Hello Forum! - Time taken to make a change at Birmingham New Street?

    Transferring between platforms at Birmingham NS is extremely complex and time consuming.
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