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It survived until the early 60s, at least, albeit completely disused. It would be interesting to know when the last train ran over it. The trackless viaduct survived for a few more years until it was demolished to make way for Westway.

Killjoy! I'm quite partial to a spot of lollygagging at stations :D

When I did the Ferrol line a few years ago, we broke our journey at O Barqueiro on the way back to Gijon. Lovely little place, like a Cornish fishing village!

At Kensington Olympia, we had pre-printed Edmonson card tickets to places like Watford Junction, Harrow & Wealdstone and Bushey & Oxhey; all were routed 'Earl's Court & Warwick Avenue'. I remember getting into an argument with someone who stated they were travelling to Watford Junction via...

The on-train washbasins (I forget which units they're in) that disable the tap until you've pressed the soap button, so you can't check that there's actually any water in them. To add insult to in jury, the soap doesn't come out underneath the soap button, as you'd expect, but beside the tap...

€88 in 2019. But even if I hadn't qualified for the Tarjeta Dorada, and despite travelling extensively for almost two weeks, it would have barely been worth it.

If you're over 60, a Tarjeta Dorada costs just €6 from any main(?) ticket office and will get you half fare on FEVE, as well as discounts on RENFE. Fares and a very basic journey planner are on the FEVE section of the RENFE website. (Which is something like...

My favourites: Longfield for Fawkham & Hartley Farningham Road & Sutton-at-Hone

Last month I arrived at St Pancras from Paris about half an hour after the train from Marne-la-Vallée had come in. Passengers (many, obviously, with small children) off that train were still queued all the way along the arrival hall and up the ramp to the platform as they waited their turn to...

The station at Vif, near Grenoble in France, had a station goat back in the 1990s. It tried to eat my wife's handbag.

In Scotland, gentlemen's toilets are indicated by a pictogram of a man in a kilt.

One of my most memorable footplate rides in India was on a WP class pacific hauled express between Lucknow and Varanasi, which involved a token exchange at speed. The apparatus on the loco was extremely simple – just a prong which the driver unhooked from the side of the cab as we approached the...

Could it be that the 'BR (W)' is the later addition? The 'LM' is aligned with the edges of the key, and is in a similar typeface to the 'Kaye Leeds' lettering. And, to me, the key itself looks as if it might pre-date nationalisation.

Websites which only reveal their criteria for acceptable passwords when you enter one that isn't.

Walsall and Warsaw...

In 1977 I got a tube of Silver Jubilee crowns - which were legal tender - and dished them out in change from the booking office.

Apologies if any of these have been mentioned before... Packaging that has the be destroyed to get at the product inside Packaging that no longer fits when the product is fully assembled Kitchen and toilet rolls with faulty perforations, so when you pull off a sheet, all you get is a thin strip...

Using the word 'premium' to describe something that is merely overpriced.

But The Really Annoying Thing About Clickbait Ads Is How They Capitalise Every Single Word...

Brings it all back :D