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Not that late, but I remember planes landing on 05 in the late 70s early 80s, they would come right passed my bedroom window, if the wind was blowing in the right direction. Mainly tridents, with the odd 737, but sometimes bigger stuff, like tristars & 747s, I think I even saw Concorde once.

Lays used to do Bolognese flavour which I've only ever been able to find in France & Belgium. Walkers do try out new flavours, but never the one I really, really wanted

Hi A friend of mine has an annual Travelcard from Staines issued on a SWR smartcard & now wants to switch to a Staines to London Terminals as he no longer needs the underground component. I've worked out roughly how much he would save by doing a changeover under condition 37 for the rest of...

Personally I think the Northern End needs the link far more than the South. I don't drive, so the I generally get to the GCR from the Midland main line & stay in Loughborough for the weekend. I have visited Ruddington, by bus & by a very long walk from East Midlands Parkway, but it is very much...

I caught the sleeper at Oriente about a month ago & although I got there at least an hour before (because I'm very cautious), I did notice a number of people get on it from another train that arrived on the other platform face with about 6 minutes to spare. I thought it was leaving it a bit...

I just don't. I am fascinated by the science & technology of aviation, I enjoy watching airshows & reading technical descriptions of aircraft, I accept that they are a safe way to travel, but I just don't fly. Incidentally there were only seven foot passengers on that particular ferry, one of...

When I got the text from Eurostar telling me not to travel, I checked with other sources including this thread & assessed my chances of getting out of Nord on Sunday evening. I wouldn't be able to get Nord earlier to join the queue as I was coming up from Barcelona on the Sunday morning TGV & I...

I was due to take the 1907 on Sunday having come up from Barcelona on the TGV, when I got to Nord at about 1630 I was told the queue was about 45 minutes, but after an hour I reckon I was only about a quarter of the way to the X-Ray machines so I bailed out. I'd already booked a hotel in Paris...

NSE Jaffa Cake livery really suited the refurbished 4CEPs

Sorry if that's not the right word for it, but the last couple of evenings I've got off the train at Ashford there's been a guy with a bat giving the right away to the guard. This is unusual because for as long as I can remember (over 20 years) Ashford has been unmanned apart from a part time...

I remember coming back from Sheffield on a special about 20 years ago & having to wait an hour at a junction in North London (Dudding Hill maybe?), because the track had been lifted in front of us. Apparent somebody had forgotten that this special was working & so an engineering gang had been...

It's the only preserved line where they pass at speed. On other lines trains pass in stations or loops where one train has to stop in a short double track section whilst another gets past, before continuing on single track. The Great Central has 5 miles of double track so trains can pass at...