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The A553 Hoylake Road/Birkenhead Road between Moreton and Meols is almost universally known as the Meols Stretch.

Not the best day for Yoda to start his work experience at Leeds station.

It’s awful, but I like it!

Stockport County also took about 1500 supporters to Tranmere on Saturday afternoon for a cup tie.

Having done a Leeds-Bridlington return last week, I’d be inclined to agree. If you want any more through trains reversing in Hull, then the station approaches need opening out -as it stands, you have about half a dozen platforms depending on a couple of approach lines and it’s far too easy to...

I’ll reserve judgement until somebody decides what it’s actually going to do and what the obligation on the individual is going to be - how, for example, is it going to be different from the NHS app which I use to request repeat prescriptions?

I wonder whether there’s some element of Scottish Government funding to the post.

I’d just read a book in that situation - one of the other passengers is bound to complain.

I’m sure there’s a good reason why they had Barrow Haven (which I’ve just had to look up!) rather than Barton-on-Humber, but I suspect it’s been lost in the mists of time.

I think the lawyers’ answer will be that today’s drunk passenger could be tomorrow’s passenger with a disability or learning difficulty and you can’t ignore the circumstances leading to a death just because a repeat incident is now impossible. I suspect that the ORR safety recommendations...

By the same token, at some point Colchester must have lost the city status that it had in Roman times to regain it recently. I‘m not aware of Harrogate ever showing any interest, although until recently, the Harrogate borough included the City of Ripon, which might account for it. There are a...

That’s a bonus - booked days from Leeds to Brid and Manchester.

My Manx uncle once described it as a cabal of farmers deciding among themselves how to divide up the subsidies and everything else came afterwards. I think we’re now (in England) reaping the fruit of having an education system which prioritises box-ticking over producing rounded citizens of...

Definitely, because he made a reference to having three trains’ worth of people on board. I suspect somebody may have had a word, because the full ticket check he promised on departure from Leeds never happened.

Currently in the middle of an interesting situation travelling from Leeds to Liverpool. The 1230 TPE Leeds-Liverpool was turned back at Leeds to provide an eastbound service due to trespassers at Brighouse, with passengers directed to either the 1312 Northern or 1315 TPE services. I’m...

I think it was probably more likely to be prevent people travelling with an empty card and then claiming that they bought a ticket this morning and it can’t have loaded up.

A few weeks ago I was at a Merseyrail station where the booking office staff refused to sell somebody a MetroCard unless they were going to load a ticket on it- presumably that no longer applies if you’re intending to tie it to the app. But yes, this is where West Yorkshire was about 15 years...

This seems to have been going on for a while now - at the beginning of July I caught the 1550 Waterloo-Yeovil Junction as far as Salisbury as one leg of a journey to Bristol, to find that it was short formed (158 as against 158+ 3 car 159). Snug, and I don’t think everybody was seated until...

I’m amazed that the 964 Cambridge circular in Otley keeps going - it’s slightly less than a mile, four minutes each way and because it’s run by Connexions, often produces a double decker. It might not be entirely coincidental that a local councillor lives on the estate.

EMR aren’t running between Sheffield and Liverpool for the duration of the Stockport works, so there should be a few 158s or 170s freed up there.