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Or why not back to the 'Harlequin Line' as it was known in NSE days?

Once took home a hot pink/gold leaf armchair from the Ideal Home Show. Went for the direct Southern service between West Brompton and Milton Keynes, but we either just missed it or it was cancelled (can't remember which)! So we had to take LO as far as Willesden Junc, then a Bakerloo tube to...

Came across a temporary TSY bus stop on the A514 Osmaston Road, just beyond Derby Litchurch Lane works the other week, just before the junction with Ascot Drive! Didn't realise it was the contractor, rather than the council putting them out.

Matthew Kelly in VTWC FC, kitchen coach, MAN-EUS, very rude. Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, FTPE FC, MAN-BPN non-plussed. Matthew Horne, FTPE FC, MAN-BPN, polite and quiet. Professor Green, platform 14, MAN, totally top bloke, absolute star. Gordon Brown, platforms 4/5, MAN, booed him and he...

Sounds like the 21A to me. You might have been quicker walking, or even taking the Volks Electric Railway from Black Rock Beach Station! TransPeak in its original Manchester to Nottingham guise was always a long run, now truncated between Derby and Buxton. The X17/X18 between Matlock -...

What about revenue raised from parking? Manchester City Council/TfGM fund Metroshuttle from parking revenue, and Brighton & Hove City Council haven't made cuts like most other areas. Rotten councils/Boroughs spring to mind, pandering to motorists wanting free/cheap parking.

Plenty of long-distance commutes within my department to Milton Keynes: Myself and two others from Derby. One from Crewe. One from Manchester. One from Hastings (I kid ye not).

I remember the following Stagecoach Express services around the NW: X24 Clitheroe - Bolton - Dumplington X25 Clitheroe - Bolton - Manchester 'the Mancunian' X43 Burnley - M66 - Manchester (- Dumplington) X59 Morecambe - Lancaster - University - Preston - Southport X60 Preston - Chorley -...

Thames Valley Police are responsible for bike thefts at MKC, rather than BTP, due to the forecourt/porte cochere area being owned by Milton Keynes Council/MKDP, rather than the 'railway'. Ever since the new facility at MKC opened there has been issues with it. Despite being right underneath...

They could just put 'up to' in very small letters preceding it, like retailers do for sales.

Woburn Sands was previously known as Hogsty End prior to the arrival of the railway. Egypt, South Bucks., always amuses me.

For the record, Beeching never proposed Woodhead for closure. In fact, he selected for further development. Government incompetence and BR mismanagement saw to that one.

With regards to the Milton Keynes Central parking arrangements, the prices got jacked up pre-recession, and LM haven't budge/cut since. Meanwhile, you can pay Milton Keynes Council (as a resident) as little as £2.40 per day, or Network Rail/APOCA 50p an hour to park in Block A1. The south...

Had a very eerie experience today whilst at London Victoria! Went behind a double set of doors above the escalators to Platforms 13 & 14 to discover a disused ticket office/lost property area, that appeared to connect directly into Victoria Place (possible where Sainsburys Local is). When...

Whilst working a New Mills Central - Manchester Piccadilly service just before midnight, my driver was so keen to get home he almost missed Ashburys (the penultimate stop). Fortunately, it being a Class 142, and a reasonably long platform, a simple one on the buzzer caught his attention and...

The Ramblers' Association made their case to Barbara Castle, given that Edale marks the start of the Pennine Way, it would be a 'huge' loss to those without cars. So the economy of both Manchester and Sheffield (millions of residents) suffered for the benefit of a few (thousand) recreational...

I can confirm this is regularly the case, even for those with Reduced Rate seasons! Yet travelling in the opposite direction, happy to allow boarding 'set down only' services. Completely inconsistent.

London Midland care as much about lost revenue from Virgin as much as Virgin do about serving the Milton Keynes market properly. Neither could care less.

Manchester Piccadilly - Glossop/Hadfield, was every 20 minutes, Mon-Fri, all day (peak and off-peak) when North Western Trains started in 1996, reduced to half-hourly under First North Western, and continues as such today.

It acts as an unofficial parkway for those who can't face the slow crawl to Hazel Grove, or the alternative stopper to Buxton. When I lived in Ashbourne and worked in Manchester, it was the best of a bad bunch, particularly given the parking, and would attract much more custom given an...