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Yeovil is, by far, the worst place I've been recently for this. First (ah! yes that is the main operator too), you can generally forget about real time displays there anyway. I was there in September, a couple of weeks after the local network had been changed - and new timetables had been put up...

Dagenham has Andrew's Corner (junction of Becontree Avenue and Valence Avenue) and Martin's Corner (Valence Avenue/Wood Lane/Porters Avenue) in close succession. Not sure what Martin's Corner was named after, but Andrew's was a furniture store, I think. Not far away "The Fiddlers" (after the now...

I suppose the replacement of Eltham Park and Eltham Well Hall by a new Eltham station between the two (but much nearer the site of the latter) might be a broadly similar precedent, albeit in a very different social environment. Part of the justification of the move was the associated transport...

I once, in the early 90s, went to the one in the shopping centre above and at the back of Victoria station in London. It was undistinguished. J. T's ("Just Terrific") Jacket Potatoes in St Andrews - haggis being one of their options - were far superior.

Arriva Trains Wales and First Great Western both used it well into this century - I think the former up until they were replaced by TfW, and the latter, probably, until they rebranded as FGW.

Is there not a problem that a Network Railcard isn't valid between Worcester and Cheltenham (nor between Cheltenham and Didcot if taking the Golden Valley route)? The North Cotswolds line benefits from both cheap fares in its own right and from being in the Network Area , but the South...

I might consider checking the timetable of the Pulhams 801 bus to get back from Chelt to Moreton. At the moment it runs hourly on Sundays, so that is presumably is now the case year-round. As it's a £3 flat fare, I suspect that would be both the cheapest and quickest solution, at least to get to...

The current station at Carpenders Park dates from 1952 (replacing an earlier one on a different site)- so a British Railways creation. Gospel Oak was rebuilt at the same time in a similarly "modern" style (to some extent inspired by 1930s tube stations)

As a graduate of St Andrews, I can only regretfully agree with the conclusion that reopening the railway line as a shuttle from Leuchars is utterly unrealistic and unviable. Stagecoach have done such a good and inventive job in recent decades creating and running high-quality and increasingly...

"Without" in this (medieval English) sense usually means "outside" (the nearest major parish or town) - essentially the same meaning as "outwith" in modern Scottish English. It's not that rare a usage (for church names, for example, or ecclestical or civil parishes), although for a village it is...

Newbury did that a few years ago, and Swindon has only just done so. To be sure both bus stations were in great need of renovation, but the distance from the station of the new one at Newbury (maybe a 10 minute walk that isn't particularly obvious) says all that needs to be said about integrated...

Used a PlusBus e-ticket for the first time at the weekend. In Yeovil, on First Bus. Driver told me to scan it, of course it didn't scan, so he looked at it and recognized straight away what it was.

All of the main Thames Travel services (i.e. excluding the BB-prefixed school routes and the OX-prefixed football specials)

Funnily enough, I was travelling on a (nearly empty) X34 to Newbury early this morning, and found on board many copies of a new timetable booklet including all the latest Thames Travel times, along with a high quality map of most places they serve south and east of Oxford, including all Go-Ahead...

I did once take a KLM flight that went Amsterdam - Glasgow - Edinburgh, although I'm not sure whether it was possible just to book for travel just between the two Scottish cities (the two airports are about 48 miles apart by road)

This might imply that many of Carlisle's games (or Plymouth's) would have to be scheduled earlier in the day than the usual 3pm. And rule out evening fixtures, at all, at clubs near the geographic peripheries of their respective leagues. In short - even putting to one side the notorious...

I'd have photographed the screen on the machine refusing to see me a ticket, and got on the train, and try again to get a ticket at Piccadilly, if there was sufficient time to do so.

There's a relatively low population density down there, and neither of the former stations were particularly well-suited, whereas New Addington (almost like a mini-Thamesmead) was a relatively dense housing estate that had been crying out for better public transport links for decades (as seen by...

By any measure c2c is a successful and well-regarded (and especially by people who remember what the line was like before...., well-liked) brand. If there is nothing preventing it's continuation (copyright, for example), surely it would be perverse to abandon it? SNCF are happy to have plenty...

Reform and the Greens will be the main beneficiaries of this, at least in England. I think it's profoundly misguided.