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As far as the parts of Merseyrail running outside Merseyside are concerned, Cheshire County Council provided funding for the Chester and Ellesmere Port extensions in the 1990s and the Ormskirk electrification was done by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway before the First World War.

They ducked the issue. Surprised there’s only one butterfly -and one of the less well-known ones as well- as I would have thought that the patterning would lend itself well to a banknote. No reptiles either (Irish sensibilities about snakes notwithstanding) and only the common frog...

Disgraceful really that it’s still the situation -I’ve mentioned elsewhere that the Liverpool-Wigan service is barely usable on Sunday. There’s a long standing feeling that St Helens and Knowsley are the poor relations where Merseytravel are concerned, and what amounts to about three trains...

It would be interesting to know how much business the ticket offices at Dewsbury, Selby and Stalybridge do after the morning peak. I can see some of the ticket offices being moved to a single shift, say 6.00-lunchtime, as a lot of staffed ticket offices in the south east are. Not exactly an...

Peterborough NVR needs to be more of a gateway, for a start. The railway operates as an out and back trip from Wansford to Peterborough followed by one from Wansford to Yarwell, but it seems to surprise the staff when people want to start their journey at the Peterborough end.

Higher than average number of transient workers, students, tourists. Although the number paid is improving, there’s still a jump of nearly a quarter from two years ago.

I’d have thought there would have been quite a few punters for the Zoo on Sunday and Monday, which won’t have helped.

My understanding was also that Moreton produced biscuits rather than chocolate, so it may well have been chocolate in from Bournville and biscuits out for distribution. If the finished product was going out nationwide, some or all of it might have gone out into Cadbury’s distribution network...

I had 012 on a West Kirby diagram on Friday. There seem to have been more units stabling at West Kirby and New Brighton the last few times I’ve been there, so perhaps testing is being done.

We thought about going from Birkenhead to Wigan to see it this afternoon, but the diabolical Liverpool-Wigan service on Sunday plus the absence of any Avanti trains has put paid to that.

The Millwall Supporters’ Club are probably having a whip round at this very moment.

My usual bus to/from work regularly used to run a few minutes late on Monday because there would be a good number of students and sixth formers who would get £20 from Mum and Dad for their bus fare and want a weekly ticket. Easier now it’s all on apps (and in West Yorkshire there’s a reasonable...

They certainly existed into the 1980s as we used it when holidaying in St Leonards in 1986 - a connecting bus was provided from Haywards Heath to Sheffield Park.

My dad used to do election counting when he worked for our local council- I think the package was taxis to and from the count, overtime and the Friday off. One advantage of not having an all-out election is that there’s not the same urgency to count the votes. I think we just seem to have a...

Probably less popular with the recipients of said parcels!

I bought a 2026 desk diary from TG Jones in Leeds the other week and it was copyrighted to W H Smith in 2024 so there’s evidently been a lot of unsold stock in the deal. Magazines nowadays aren’t competitively priced - as part of tidying up my late mother’s affairs, we’re trying to get to the...

There are a couple of workings first thing in the morning - a Rock Ferry-Liverpool-Ellesmere Port and a Hilton-Liverpool-Chester but nothing like the situation about 30 years ago when everything interworked. Line 6 of the Paris Metro terminates at Charles de Gaulle- Étoile, but because of the...

A Also a lot of work going on in the Liverpool area which would have made it difficult for potential Merseyside passengers to make a potential joining point at Chester or Warrington. Probably just too difficult to path with any confidence, though, especially as there aren’t the paths for Grand...

Kirkstall Forge and Guiseley - it can vary from year to year, but at the moment the KF calls are all provided by trains going to or from Bradford or Skipton.

The first Mersey road tunnel was built with space for a tramway under the road deck.