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The public interface of social media channels certainly helps to persuade companies to act as they should in customers' interest more quickly than does more purely private means of communication. Maybe X/Twitter is not as overwhelmingly dominant among social media channels as it once was, but I...

Numerous routes in the Didcot area (I think all Thames Travel or Oxford Bus Co) run via private roads at Harwell Campus; some routes do similarly at the Milton Park business park nearby

Pulhams route 68 in Berkshire reverses in Kingston Lisle, in Hill View (the bus shelter in the village is thus a few metres off-route)

While the exact way that deregulation was implemented was very much less than ideal, and based upon Nicholas Ridley's romantic delusions about free marketeers to an unhealthy degree I can't say that I miss the NBC one bit. By the mid-1980s It (or at least the two subsidiaries that operated near...

Presuming you included the minimum permitted interchange time between your scheduled arrival at St P and your scheduled departure from KX, it's one through journey. This is officially a rather excessive 31 minutes, although browsing numerous threads here, it appears that some ticket retailers...

This is a wonderful initiative - let's hope it is a success (and not closed down by GBR)

Flew in and out of Venice Marco Polo last week. On arrival, photo and fingerprints were taken at the e-gates; there was quite a queue though (of about 20 minutes), no doubt reflecting that several flights from the UK, US and Canada had all landed at about the same time. But more or less...

A different useful shortcut at Farringdon: a lift from the westernmost end of the Elizabeth Line platforms will take you directly to the southbound Thamesliink platform

Adjacent to it. He was MP for Leigh.

I thought that early finish on Saturday could partiallly be justified if the buses run substantially later - but (as well as being much slower) they don't: the last no 14 from Penzance that runs through (eventually) to Truro leaves at 21:45 (there is one later as far as Camborne) I never know...

Ticket gates can sometimes be a law unto themselves, but I'd expect this ticket to open the barrier without any issues

The ticket has a Maltese cross on, meaning it's valid for London Underground connections between terminals (Waterloo to Victoria probably being the most obvious route in this case). That means there is no obligation to change at Clapham Junction, even though it might be easier or quicker. The...

There is Swindon Village in the outskirts of Cheltenham, but I suspect the two Swinton stations in the North are the reason for the "Wilts"

Looks extremely tacky and classless. "Not as bad as Burberry Street", maybe not, but that is a low bar. I think that there was a reasonable case for renaming Surrey Docks in the late 1980s - the docks themselves had closed, the neighbourhood was just about to undergo a very substantial...

Charlbury, Ascott-under-Wychwood and possibly others on the North Cotswolds line 1>2 circa 2012. Stratford (London). I think the new 1 and 2 for the Overground are the only brand new platforms on the NR side, but there are other platforms that were previously used much less regularly than is...

The Silverlink-era North London line ("the free train", as Zadie Smith calls it in "White Teeth") used to have some shady and sometimes threatening characters aboard. Station-wise, though, I think the more menacing ones (being badly lit and more isolated. and with a more infrequent service, less...

I've been to many of the places mentioned here, but generally haven't been over-intimidated in any of them (and I think I would be prefer to be delayed at Brussels-Midi than at the Gare du Nord in Paris, all things considered), but maybe that is what growing up in a fairly rough bit of London...

Go Ahead Oxfordshire (Oxford Bus Co/Thames Travel/Pulhams) - yes, comprehensive timetable booklet and individual route leaflets in some cases Stagecoach West (Oxfordshire) - yes, although not necessarily for all routes

2,895 "official" parking spaces at Didcot Parkway (most of which are in a multi-storey) as well as numerous unofficial car parks very close to the station shows how the station really does serve as a parkway to a wide area of Oxon and Berks

Kemble is delightful. Beautiful old buildings, a cafe (albeit open mornings only), and a lovely little garden adjacent to what was the platform for Cirencester.