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Well done on completing a book, and for your persistence. Are you hoping for a financial return, or merely the knowledge that others have read and appreciated your fiction, maybe providing some feedback along the way? If the latter, then consider publishing your work on a platform such as...

If they’re arriving in the area by train, tell them to get a ticket to Horley or Three Bridges and pick them up there, for free. If they’re picky and insist that only a Gatwick pick-up will do, point them in the direction of the well-filled taxi rank.

The DR scheme represents a transfer of value to the well-organised and sharp-elbowed – a sub-set of the older middle classes, mostly – from the less well informed, the young, and those with busier or chaotic lifestyles who don’t have time/ability to deal with form-filling. So I’m not a big fan...

On your assumptions, then yes, I’m sure it would see more use than in 1994, though that’s a low bar. But it would still be very quiet between the peaks, and require a large subsidy from other TfL operations or the taxpayer. In respect of leisure travel, spending 75 minutes sat on the Central...

M-prefix (94/95) VW Passat saloon in Southgate, in green, almost matching the moss growing in the window frames, but street-parked and apparently in use.

That's the point of exercising their break clause. They're not walking away from the London bus market - despite some media coverage implying this - and will, I'm sure, expect to win most of the surrendered routes back, on terms more viable for GAL. Even if they lose some work, it was...

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There are several videos on YouTube taken in the years prior to closure, before the ‘closing down’ crowds started to inflate the passenger count. Generally covering the pm peak, these amateur films suggest Ongar trains were picking-up 15-20 passengers each, at Epping. In the contra-peak...

DAF 66 Variomatic estate on a P-plate (1975-76), doing some Sainsbury's shopping. Sounded quite throaty - might be a non-standard exhaust, a blown exhaust, or something more exotic than the original 1.3 power unit under the bonnet.

On Euston Road, a Y-suffix (82-83) W123 Mercedes-Benz 230E, in an elegant shade of light metallic green. Absolute class.

P-suffix (1975-76) Ford Cortina Mk3 XL, in a vibrant shade of 70s orange and in fine fettle, it seemed, cruising around Eastbourne.

An H-suffix Morris Minor (one of the last, I think), well-used and in a dirge grey colour, pottering around Newhaven. One of the lads in my sixth form had a Minor in 1990, and they were considered to be unusually old cars even then.

Although I think, at that time, London Buses route 395 ran through the Rotherhithe Tunnel with Mercedes Sprinter minibuses, which narrowly cleared the tunnel width restrictions.

In the final years, the service to Shoreditch was weekday peak hours, plus Sunday mornings for the East End markets, if memory serves me right. I believe the period of D-stock operation coincided with the programme to convert A-stock units for One Person Operation, which took a number of...

Well, that’s the menu sorted if TPE get a booking of giant pandas travelling first class.

I’m going to decide tomorrow afternoon whether the railway is taking wise precautions, or overreacting. I will let everyone know. With my A-level in geography, I’m quite an expert in these decisions.

Any level of service is possible, if people are prepared to pay a realistic sum for it. This thread started with people disappointed/angry that having paid c.£10 to travel first class between Derby and Sheffield, they'd no longer be entitled to a sandwich (etc) on top of a hot drink and...

Talk of the Renault Fuego reminds me that a chap living locally has *two* Renault 17 in his garage, at least one of which is roadworthy and seen pottering about occasionally. I consider myself a car nerd, but I didn’t recollect this coupe model until I did some research, having seen the...

Passed on the A23 today by an H-prefix Lancia Delta Integrale, sounding throaty and looking immaculate in yellow.

- Review bus stop locations and remove some closely-spaced stops. - Allow buses to move at 30mph, where safe to do so, in all 20mph zones. No doubt legislation would be needed. - Increase the congestion charge significantly. Remove most exemptions/discounts for private motorists, but have a...