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Ha! Not the Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society? Proprietor an Arnold J Rimmer of the mining ship Red Dwarf.

Is one of the changes that drivers are paid a lot more and so don’t need the overtime of Sundays, or risk cliff-edge tax implications if they do take overtime.

Great map! Something to fix is that Caldcot is not between Pilning and Severn Tunnel Junction, or served by GWR, but is only on the Cheltenham Spa line and served only by TfW.

Golant level crossing on the Fowey branch in Cornwall also crosses a slipway into the river.

Nothing for Portishead? Maybe that will be just before the next General Election (Portishead voted Labour for the first time in 2024). Though they will probably have spent all of the taxpayers’ money by then.

By ‘proper funding’ you mean even higher taxes.

Bridgwater and Highbridge & Burnham have a reputation for anti-social behaviour, non-payment of fares etc. Apparently, drug dealers provide direct supplies from Bristol, making the station a hotspot for trouble. Both towns (though not Burnham) are very socially deprived, especially for...

Didn’t Cross Country also get Cheltenham to Swindon regional services for a time? That never seemed to make much sense.

St Keyne Wishing Well Halt, assuming the wishing well is privately owned.

Don’t some stations in Northern Ireland operate a system where you can’t get onto the platform until shortly before the train arrives?

Bournemouth itself only has a population of 196,455 (built-up area, 2021). The 401,898 figure relates to the Council area of Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP), but this has other services to it (eg First’s X54 to Poole). Correction - it seems the X54 doesn’t go to Poole so the 401K...

Not a Post Office, but Starcross station used to have a part-time sub-branch of the National Westminster Bank as part of the station building. It closed in the 1990s I think, to become a fish and chip shop.

The closest seaside resort to Birmingham in Weston-super-Mare, which has precisely one direct XC train each way per day. Weston is a favourite of Brummies and has its own Bournville estate (very different from the Cadbury one though).

As did the signaller at Templecombe.

Exactly right. The announcements are just virtue signally so they can tick a box and say ‘we’ve taken action’ about eg littering.

Cardiff has 19 stations with a population of 379K. For a small city (albeit a capital), that’s a lot!

Thanks, interesting responses re 9 and 126. If the 9 is rerouted to replace the 5, it could almost replace the 6 too, which takes a very sinuous, circuitous route between Weston and Worle. But then something else would need to serve Mead Vale.

Any idea what will happen to the Weston 9 service (also a NSC tender), if the new X11 serves West Wick?

This is an excellent YouTube video of the station in its last years whilst still open, thanks to City Transport Info:

Where’s the fun in that!