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It's a bit different in the Netherlands, though - IME there's relatively little bicycle storage on trains, and the hours are quite restrictive. Instead, you have big, easy to use, secure cycle parks and a national, dirt cheap rail-cycle scheme. Denmark is an interesting example to look at...

Cambridge has a load of places in the CB1 development immediately adjacent, as well as a "food truck" location just round the corner. Stevenage is adjacent to the town's leisure park, so a Nando's is definitely on the cards.

I used to catch the metro from Ilford Road to South Gosforth to go to school way back in the early 80s - when the line was just South Gosforth to Haymarket. It was 4p for a child fare, 8p for an adult fare - I remember my Mum being annoyed that the flat child fare (it was originally half fare)...

Salford Central seems to often get its suffix omitted (I know it only gained it when Salford Crescent opened). The name Battersby Junction was certainly in common use in the 90s when I was often round that way. Although hardly the busiest station, and now basically disused, British Steel...

Belfast only has NIR, unless you count the jointly-run Enterprise as being a different TOC.

New England is your friend for this. https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2020-07/2020-02-commuter-rail-map-v34.pdf I can see: Andover Reading Gloucester Beverly Belmont Lincoln Shirley Mansfield Newmarket Braintree Bridgewater Halifax Kingston Plymouth Ipswich And several that don't...

Back in the old Thameslink days, I used to work near Moorgate, and had a habit of having to go into work after an overnight flight into Gatwick. So I'd hop off at Farringdon, and there was often a Moorgate train on the opposite platform, so I'd take that, rather than cram into the...

Loophole is probably the wrong term. Referring to the fact that London Terminals tickets into King's Cross are equally valid to Old Street and Moorgate, both via Finsbury Park and on the Tube from KXSP. Have met loads of people who always pay for travelcards, but they're only going to Moorgate.

Slight diversion, but I used to do a lot of IT subcontract work, in all sorts of places - you'd have the standard dress of no jacket and no tie. I spent a while in a couple of large hospitals (doing some pretty cool IT stuff, and having some scary moments in live operating theatres), but...

Chandler's Ford was named after Raymond Chandler's Capri. Maryport was named after Mary Portas, Queen of Shops. Appleby was named after Kim Appleby, of Mel and Kim fame. Partick was named after local character "dyslexic Paddy". Durham was named as a homage to Henry Mancini, composer of the Pink...

What about Japanese style? Have dedicated reserved and unreserved carriages, with the number of each varying according to expected passenger flow. Make sure seats can be booked at any time up to boarding (which is easier with fully reserved carriages, as you're never turfing anyone out of...

One of my oddest ones, when living near Tooting, was falling asleep on the Northern Line after getting on at Moorgate after work, and waking up again at Moorgate going in the opposite direction!

Commuting on WAGN/FCC/whatever for many years, you used to frequently get people for Finsbury Park on the first-stop-Biggleswade evening expresses. Quite often, they'd ask someone, and then insist that it did actually stop at Finsbury Park, despite the sign - "they" just didn't want you to use...

On the 317s, the PIS always used to announce "Arr-less-see". Mind you, the number of people who think it's "Ars-lee" anyway...

Thankyou! I've been looking for that for ages!

Pedestrian: 0. Bike: 2 - was cycling along a fjordside cycle path in Oslo, on a borrowed bike. The handlebars came off in my hand at speed. Thought I'd regained balance, but then hit a drain and went head over heels. Nothing bar a bit of road rash, thankfully. The other time was quite nasty...

Oh, definitely. So count the line from London Bridge to Charing Cross in this one!

Dundee's got quite an approach, too. Just ask William Topaz McGonagall. (North Queensferry also, if you count that as major...)

Newcastle, from the King Edward Bridge, surely has to be a contender.

Yes, but I haven't seen it :) I have had the pleasure of driving through one of the 'big dig' tunnels towards the airport, though. That was an odd experience. Longer, more winding tunnels than even Brussels!