Recent content by neilmc

I don't think I can think of a service in the places I've lived that I would describe as useless. You could possibly point at the old winter evening service on Leeds 22 to Temple Newsam, which basically served a stately home (it's been canned completely although it used to be busy on sunny...

Was driving from Manchester to Aldershot for a wedding early one April Sunday, and we'd had snow. However the M56 and M6 were OK, I just drove slightly slower than normal although the roads were clear. That is, until we hit the boundary of the West Midlands where the lying snow on the motorway...

Just come back from a 2 week trip to Budapest, staying in Budapest, Tokaj, Eger (the main part of our stay) and Vecses. It was superb, especially as my wife has just turned 65 so now we are both eligible for free travel on all public transport! However, on IC (intercity) trains a seat...

Back to Hungary, and if anything large locos hauling small trains, sometimes of only two coaches, seems to be becoming more common. It was noticeable this year that the small class 117 railcars were much less common in service than previously, quite a few being dumped in depots, and electric...

I lived in Leeds and recall going for a job interview in Southampton around 1979/80, and on returning to Leeds from Kings Cross I decided to catch a Deltic-hauled train bound for Hull or York or Cleethorpes which ran ten minutes before the last Leeds train - I figured this would be my last...

There's a song "Wherever you lay your hat, that's your home". Obviously not though.

Homerton?

Indeed, D6130, I'm told it's pronounced "Rooze" to rhyme with "booze" locally. Your turn.

OK, think of a familiar term for certain marsupials?

You might be mistaken for thinking that West Wallaby Street was in this suburb

Might it be Lowestoft?

Lancaster is o course correct. Your turn.

I'll try again then ... In the sixties, you could spot Clans tear through this station

Correct Dale. (Elgin is an anagram of Nigel!)

Thanks. Farage is out of order here- has he lost his marbles?