Recent content by Peter Lanky

I lived in Bolton until 1994 when it was still a thriving town. Not as good as it was in the 1970s when the council changed hands every other election and councillors had to be on their toes though to keep their seats. Since then I've lived in Wigan, which has lost shops but is still far from...

Not to the same extent, as they would alight the train and leave the platform immediately. When people are milling around waiting for 2 or 3 trains at 13/14 quite a crowd can congregate. The rail companies need to look for opportunities rather than look for objections.

As Eus-Man keeps being used as an example, there is another idea that has been much talked about in Lancashire but not it seems by the WCML. When a train arrives in Manchester, a significant number of passengers trek over to platform 14 to take a train to Bolton. This not only results in a very...

As I wanted to see a little more than the termini, we had also made a trip to Inverness using TPE/Scotrail first class at around £50 return each with railcard, but this is no longer possible at that price now. We then based our week in Inverness. The following day we took the train to Kyle but...

My sentiments exactly. I have always wanted to make more use of trains as a leisure facility, especially as so many trains are empty during the non commuting hours. It seems that those responsible for managing modern train travel are unable to see beyond trains as a means of commuting, and that...

I would agree with the connectivity bit, but connectivity has never been something the railways have done very well from my experience, especially involving 2 different companies. I say this remembering my train pulling into Carlisle regular as I watched the train I knew I could never catch...

My local station is Wigan NW and though I would personally never go to neither Blackpool nor London, the service is quite useful. A lot of people do go to Blackpool from Lancashire and Cheshire, and a pendolino offers a much more comfortable option than Northern. Also I have used the service for...

Websites that send you back to the beginning of a long search, and reset the dates etc. just by clicking the back arrow, such as many rail booking engines, but particularly Avanti. Websites that have 'All London Airports/Stations' as the default option. Emails/websites that tell me how much I...

I've thought about that, and a reckon that it's because those who make ready prepared vegan foods are trying to jump on the fashionable bandwagon (no slur intended here) without really knowing what they are doing. As long as they can legally say 'vegan' on the packet, then they have ticked the...

It's quite amazing in this day and age where food control and food quality is such a big issue, that this is allowed to happen at all. It's not as if the powers that be don't know about it. Same with many mince products having 25% fat, when it ought to be around 5%. Having made complaints to the...

I think I made it clear that: a) I did not actually pulp the owner's face, merely that I would have liked to. b) It was not the actual act of the mutt, but the owner's attitude that so aggrieved me. and also, there would be no dog owners if there were no dogs, so therefore my desire to rid the...

The term 'Regional departures available' for holidays for which I roughly translate as, 'we're doing you a great favour for allowing you to use an airport in your quaint little provincial backwater, though we must add an awfully large supplement for this great favour we're doing for you'.

I was out walking one day and the very same happened to me. I said to the owners, a young (by my standards) couple, 'thanks very much, I really appreciated that', to which the response from the male half was 'It's what dogs do'. He will never know how close he came to having his nose on the back...

I would just ban dogs in every shape or form. That would ruffle some feathers.

Groups of old fogies (I'm an old fogey myself to keep things in context) having a morning group ramble along a flat canal towpath in full hiking gear are also very good at taking up all available path space. I tend to find younger people are more likely to wander from side to side, thus also...