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"Etihad" means "unity", which is interesting considering City's rivals are United.

They tend to use paper Travelcards rather than Oyster to avoid any maximum fares for spending too long between swiping in/out.

Doncaster Rovers ladies team have now moved out. Went to see them a few weeks back and there were a couple of visible train carriages visible in Booth's yard from inside the ground.

Boston to King's Lynn via Sleaford, Peterborough and Ely

Do we know if it was a passenger or rail staff member who made the 999 call?

A friend and I was on the incoming Horsham-Peterborough Thameslink service, that arrived into Peterborough just a few minites after the train in question left - it seems we passed it in the Holme/Connington area so it's scary to think that it was all going on when we zoomed past (wasn't looking...

PG Tips' monkey were real monkeys who were given peanut butter to make them look like they were talking (I believe)

Now that Peterborough – Doncaster will become a penalty fare line, and I believe there are signs up at Sleaford to say it is becoming a "penalty fare station"... does that mean all journeys to Sleaford can be penalty-fared? Such as on the Nottingham-Skegness line - or do you have to be...

I did the walk from Moorfields to Goodison in the cold of January after just missing a train, and the next couple were cancelled. As it was 7pm, I decided to walk it and made it in as the teams walked out at 7.45pm. Took ages to catch a bus back, though. It's football, not cricket!

You can see into Bingham, Sleaford and Skegness cricket pitches from the Poacher line, and you can see Trent Bridge's floodlights as you roll into Nottingham. I played cricket as a young 'un on the playing field at King's School, Grantham, with the trains going past on the bank.

The City of London has about 10k population....

I've just checked the Peterborough fare (as this is one I use) on both BRFares and the GN site... indeed they do advertise the £27.10 Super Off Peak Day Return GN fare as "Off Peak" on the left hand side but when you select it, it does show it as "Super Off-Peak Day Return" on the right.

Of those days, only Thursday 17th wouldn't normally be off peak all day anyway - Friday and Monday are public holidays, Saturday and Sunday are weekends. Or do some Avanti tickets have holiday/weekend restrictions?

The only time you'd maybe want your employee to travel in standard on a 1st class ticket is if they were in a group, and for some reason they were the only one with a 1st class ticket.

I used Northumberland Park when I went. Kew Bridge?