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I think this was "Demolition": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_(TV_series)

Maybe not that short-lived, but Marco Polo House in Wandsworth only lasted 25 years, 1989-2014. It used to be visible from the railway line out of Victoria. Perhaps not everyone's taste architecturally but certainly striking (I liked it!), in 1990 it was the home of BSB, Britain's great hope...

The RMT has been in the news again today for yesterday declining to support the motion "Solidarity with Ukraine" at the 2023 TUC Congress: https://congress.tuc.org.uk/c21-solidarity-with-ukraine/ To remind ourselves of the leaders of the RMT: Eddie Dempsey - Senior Assistant General...

Hythe Ferry: Threatened service bought by Red Funnel However:

A couple of pictures of the platform from the 'Andover Fist' tour.

Of course with Dempsey and Lynch both being hard-left political extremists, it's hard not to see this continuing strike action as being aimed at damaging the economy of a member of the hated NATO, rather than being anything much to do with the pay and terms and conditions of the rank and file...

Thanks, all useful information. Quite surprised to learn that the additional three zones are a mere 60p extra, quite a bargain! The LNER booking site seems happy with Amersham->Z1-6 for £10.60 but no joy with the SWR site that I usually use - although I couldn't get much sense at all out of...

Does a Network Railcard give a discount on an off-peak Zone 1-6 Travelcard? I recall that it used to, but looking for the price to-day I found this on the Network Railcard FAQs which has raised doubts in my mind. ...which implies that it can't be purchased separately? I see the full price is...

I do wonder if quoting articles in full is really justifiable from a copyright perspective...? If a newspaper or magazine has gone to the expense of researching and writing an article, it seems a bit cheeky for someone here to copy it in its entirety and for all of us to read it for free...

I suppose to a layman like myself, a semaphore signal would seem to be an order of magnitude more complex and expensive than a colour light. One imagines that sticking up an LED panel on a post and running a cable to it would be relatively inexpensive and low maintenance, compared to a huge...

It might be preferable if the thread could be split into two - one for actual discussion and news, and the other for details of particular 701s being hauled hither and yon, as I'm sure some people are interested in both, but some just want actual news...

Well my post was a light-hearted rumination on the fantasy that the Swanage line were part of the national network, electrified, had reasonable line speeds, and trains from Bournemouth to Swanage were as frequent as, say, Brockenhurst to Lymington Town. So if we say that Bournemouth-Swanage...

If only seasonal staff and students could commute into the Purbecks to work, from the nearby Poole/Bournemouth conurbation, on a fast and frequent rail service running every day from morning to evening...

Only being semi-serious here, but should we be identifying voices as "male" and "female" in this day and age, wouldn't maybe "low-pitched" and "high-pitched" eliminate any risk of inaccuracy?

Well that's surely the business of the EVR. You say it's taking up 'valuable space' but in fact that space might not be particularly valuable - we (well, I at any rate) have no knowledge of the value of that space. Isn't it up to the EVR to decide whether it wants to store the loco.? And...

I use PlusBus fairly frequently... The Bournemouth+Poole area one is good value with a Railcard discount. One oddity with the SWR ticket machines though - after choosing your rail ticket, you have to add Railcard details and PlusBus supplement in the correct order - from memory, if you add the...

Reading recent replies, I am reminded of a letter published in a railway magazine on 01/04/197x, as follows: SIR - I was distressed to see the picture of Woodham's Scrapyard, published in your February number. Depicting a large number of rusting hulks of locomotives, it shows that Mr Woodham...

That one - Island Liner Day Rover - is still on the National Rail site (£23) and it seems can still be purchased on the SWR site. (Not sure why it's "Liner" rather than "Line"... even "Lines" might make more sense...)

I'm sure the owners will thank you for your advice, but frankly if they're happy with the current situation of gradual decay and expense, who are we here to say they're wrong? It's not our money. Your suggested course of action is irreversible, whereas the current course is not (however...

If you don't have tinnitus now, you soon will have if you keep travelling by Turbo :) Seriously though, I do carry earplugs all the time now for train travel, they go in for all London Underground journeys, and when needed on DMUs.