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Yay! The last few times I've travelled up to London on South-Western services, there has been not one 'Sorted' announcement over the tannoy.

That's right, one gets the Richmond line with the eight trains each way an hour that I mentioned in my post, and the Hounslow loop as well, with four trains each way an hour. But it is a minor road with the parallel main road a couple of hundred yards to the east, crossing the line on a bridge...

I have a feeling that it didn't stop at Willesden Junction. If my memory is correct, that was an odd thing to do, as it's the main interchange station on the NLL.

When my dad was conscripted in the last war, this resulted in his being posted all over the country -- just why the Hampshire regiment should end up in Bury St Edmunds, Skegness, the Lake District and Castlewellan in Northern Ireland is another question -- and this allowed him to travel to...

The bridge on Prospect Road perhaps? I was up in Lowestoft once when both the Lowestoft and Oulton Broad road swing-bridges jammed in the open position, thus requiring a 30-mile ride through Beccles and Haddiscoe to get from one side to the other. Back in London, Manor Road at North Sheen...

The channel between Ireland and Scotland is deep and reaches a depth of 600' in places; it's not like Dover to Calais. A tunnel would have to go a long way down, and bridge supports likewise. I don't think either a bridge or a tunnel is a viable project.

And the short-lived connecting service from Edinburgh to Waterloo. It was odd to see an HST in Waterloo. Did it have intermediate stops, such as Newcastle or York? Re the moving of Eurostar from Waterloo, I told a French pal that it was moved to St Pancras because nobody in North London likes...

I have relations who live a couple of hundred yards from Stoneleigh station, but as they live in Epsom borough they don't get the Old Codgers' Oyster card, although Stoneleigh station is in the London Oyster area (Zone 5). I live in a London borough, so I use my Old Codgers' Oyster Card when I...

One gets the feeling that there are quite a few other cases of rebuilding that would be a lot more feasible and would garner better returns than this massively expensive project. I think that even our old favourite, the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen line, would have a better chance of reaching fruition.

Breaking News: 'Network Rail has made a bid for parts of British Steel ahead of a deadline for offers for the company, which collapsed into liquidation last month putting 4,500 jobs at risk.' More here.

A lot of deliveries these days are 'just in time', that is, work to a very strict timetable with little margin for delays; a delay in delivery of, say, a key component can hold up a manufacturing process, with all kinds of knock-on delays further down the line. The old expression 'time is money'...

I've managed to get to grips pretty well with the Welsh alphabet, but still can't quite get my tongue around words ending in 'll', such as Aberangell in my post above. Also, I made a Welsh bloke laugh when I accidentally used the Spanish 'illo' -- 'eeyo' ending when I mentioned Llandrillo.

This happened a couple of years back to someone on a Cannon Street to Slade Green train on which I was travelling; when it arrived at Slade Green I alighted and the train returned as ECS to Cannon Street. As it moved off, I noticed a woman on board who was fast asleep. Fortunately for her this...

Not having heard of Topsham, I looked it up on the map. Following the Exmouth branch from Topsham on old and modern maps, I noticed that a short length of the Budleigh Salterton branch's track-bed has been used for the A376 in Exmouth.

Well, one hopes that they will always stop, and will not do a SPAD.

These were tube stock on their way to London. Thinking about it, they may have been new stock for the Waterloo and City line. It was quite some time back when I saw them; the new stock was introduced in 1993. If this were the case with the ones I saw, as they would be taken to Waterloo by road...

Quite a few years back I saw the Dukedog 9017 Earl of Berkeley coming up on the M40 somewhere north of High Wycombe; on a low-loader, of course. Quite a distraction when you're driving the other way at 70mph or so. Around the same time, I saw three or four London Underground tube stock carriages...

In the Richmond (Surrey) area, the 371 windy route to Kingston is occasionally a double-decker; at first I thought this was just in the rush hours, but I've seen one or two, with about three people on board, on a late Sunday evening run, so it might be because the usual single-decker isn't...

As a couple of people have said already, the Southern Region used two-digit headcodes. Having always lived in the Southern area, I can confirm that they constituted a clear and easily-remembered system, with the code prominently displayed on the front end of the EMU. There were sufficient number...

About a mile of the unclassified road to Corris to Aberangell just to the west of the latter village is built on the trackbed of the Hendre Ddu tramway that went from Aberangell station on the Cemmaes Road to Dinas Mawddwy branch, up into the mountains to serve several quarries. If we look at...