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The Hotel Great Central at Marylebone was owned by Frederick Hotels which was formed in July 1899. The chain was created by Frederick Gordon who built up what was probably the first great worldwide hotel empire. It was purchased by the LNER in 1947 for use as offices.

Isn't Middlewood station about half a mile away from a road, being only on the Middlewood Trail which is itself a former railway and a public foorpath?

Another short sleeper was from Nottingham to Glasgow, a journey I remember from early in 1975. The overnight train from St Pancras pulled in with its rake of seating carriages and the loco was detached, picked up a sleeping car from the Lincoln facing bay and reversed it onto what was now the...

Did anyone spot the justification on the HMG listing for the Chesterfield-Staveley road works!! Chesterfield Staveley Regeneration Route 6km single-carriageway with parallel provision for non-motorised users, connecting Chesterfield to allocated regeneration sites and to proposed HS2...

I've just acquired another title to add to the ones listed so far. 3,000 Strangers - Navvy Life on The Kettering to Manton Railway by J Ann Paul published by the Railway Heritage by Nostalgia Collections in 2003. It describes the building of the line from the 1870s providing details of lodging...

The book Monorails - the trains of the future published in 2015 by the Monorail Society, California concurs. It states ' Although it's possible others proceeded him, Russian inventor Ivan Kirillovitch has been credited with building the world's first monorail' along with some other details...

Thanks Philjo for the info about Oxenholme, that had passed me by Digging further into it was interesting reading - Tim Farron, the local MP, was the driver behind it but Avanti West Coast seemed to be keen on the idea and released quite a few press releases back in November 2022 when the...

Corrour post office opened 15 December 1896, and remained open until 5 March 1977. It was always on the railway station, operated by railway staff with the GPO paying for their services. One of its busiest periods was posting out game birds every autumn. Dead birds were simply addressed with a...

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From all I'm seeing, it had become up to two months for stamps to be replaced but it seems to be more consistently 1 month from the various comments I'm seeing on philatelic discussion boards with nobody reporting problems over wrong amounts, items being lost etc. It seems a many of the...

The history of travelling post offices on the LSWR main line has been complex over the years, but there has never been a TPO working to or from Weymouth to Paddington. Mail may have been carried along the GWR route, but never in a TPO or Sorting Carriage. The first mail train was a Sunday...

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Is there actually any such thing as a moral element any more? The best use would have been to a) hold sub postmasters before shipping them off to prison or b) hold the cash that RM stole from said sub postmasters Knowing how many commentators on this site expect non-expect passengers and...

I'm pretty sure that the on train sequences of A Hard Days Night were actually filmed on a real (moving) train. The film sequences were filmed on the GW mainline between Chippenham and Wootton Bassett using Chippenham as the base. We lived close by at the time and my father worked in the...

The book 'Cromford Station - a history' published 2009 by the Arkwright Society has a picture from April 1968. It shows a class 37 hauling 100 4-wheel BR continental ferry vans on an up train used for Westinghouse air brake trials. There's no other information provided but the train had probably...

Martin Mills albums were going strong in the 1960s when I started collecting. They advertised in the various stamp magazines of the time and produced good quality albums and loose leaves. There is still a second hand demand for their unused products or even used pages in good condition. Like...

try to make contact with the tandem club to get their advice. I used to be a member and used their services when I rode one tandem-club.org.uk

I think it varied by type of employee - I seem to remember guards and wages grades got it around 1977, or maybe they had to do a lot of years service up until that time before they qualified for it.

The Great Orme Tramway has a request stop on the lower portion at Black Gate only for residents use where the line crosses Tygwyn Road - don't know if the stop is still available these days. There is/was a special bell code from the driver to the winding house if the stop was needed. Source -...

Derbyshire County Council has run out of money and is one step short of joining Birmingham, Nottingham and others in the financial mire. Anything which costs council money is under review and is likely to be cut/abandoned if is not statutory or funded from elsewhere. I don't know what the...