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In Southern Region days, fast and semi-fast Bournemouth-Southampton-Waterloo services were announced and marketed as InterCity services. Following sectorization they became Network Expresses. This video of the Solari at Waterloo shows the 'Network Express' header for a Weymouth service at...

Weston-super-Mare station to Weston-super-Mare Golf Club: 0.8 miles Weston Milton station to Worlebury Golf Club: 1.04 miles Borth station to Borth and Ynyslas Golf Club: 0.43 miles

Mount Pleasant is on the busier railway but Hampden Park is on a much busier road. Mount Pleasant 459 trains, 2943 road vehicles, 1296 pedestrians or cyclists Hampden Park 340 trains, 10287 road vehicles, 1350 pedestrians or cyclists.

Mount Pleasant crossing in Southampton may be a contender. The RTT page for nearby St Denys gives an idea of the level of rail traffic. http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/SDN?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt

Winterstoke Road in Weston-super-Mare follows the alignment of the original branch line from the Bristol and Exeter main line that was made redundant by the current loop line. The green space between Regent St and Alexandra Parade is the site of the original 1841 terminus station, hence the...

That looks pretty straightforward compared to today. I'm sure a ticketing expert could do a better job of this, but here are some of those fares adjusted for inflation to 2018 prices using the BoE inflation calulator. The current fares for the roughly equivalent 2019 tickets are in brackets 1st...

Windsor & Eton Central to Windsor & Eton Riverside Hertford North to Hertford East

The timetable for 1950 is on the Timetable World website: https://timetableworld.com/book_viewer.php?id=6&section_id=1765 Scroll down to table 79. It appears there were six trains a day on weekdays and eight on Saturdays, so slightly better than the current bus provision. Compton to Newbury...

FWIW, here's an old dashcam clip of the A371 along the old Cheddar Valley route past Axbridge. Despite the rain, it gives a slightly better view of the station buildings (at around the 52 second mark) than the pictures I posted earlier. It starts at OS grid reference ST4234354944...

Here's some dashcam footage following the route of the Somerset and Dorset around Glastonbury. The third exit of the final roundabout leads to the site of the station. This clip follows the old GWR route at Wells. The GWR station was just after the second set of traffic lights (the goods shed...

The A371 follows the route of the old Cheddar Valley Line past Axbridge. These dashcam pictures show the old station buidings.

BBC Radio Four news just mentioned that Flying Scotsman has been fitted with cameras to identify trespassers.

Before the M3 was built, the A33 Winchester bypass used to pass under the SWML near Shawford so it would have been regularly crossed by class 33 locos.

This LMS film from 1938 shows signalmen using the telephone to warn about a cow on the line o_O Scroll through to a about 12 mins 30 secs.

Quite possibly. She only had a majority of 607 in the 2017 election. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000878

Here's a discussion of the selective editing in that video:

BR training film about braking in snow

The cross-channel electricity link between UK and France dates back to 1961, long before we joined the EEC/EU.

This article on the Full Fact website might be of interest to those on both sides of the immigration debate. https://fullfact.org/immigration/how-immigrants-affect-public-finances/

Analysis by Professor John Curtice: https://whatukthinks.org/eu/lessons-from-the-brexit-what-the-nation-really-thinks-poll/