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A5 through the mountains of North Wales for me, every time. (Though it was even better when there was a scheduled National Express coach from Birmingham on it, back in the 1980s.)

The 'Ieuanair' route between Anglesey and Cardiff was subsidised before being axed a few years ago.

Woolwich Ferry, not Greenwich

The horse trams don't operate in the winter - unless they've persuaded Dobbin & Co to come back from their annual holiday and operate a strike day service on the horse trams too? 1772194668 1772194737 The wording on the website suggests it's aimed at schoolkids, not 9-5 commuters. Not many...

Yes, as said above, why would anything be different this time? Despite the ridiculous hype in the Government press release, there's a long way between finding someone willing to take on the operation of the terminal and gaining a profitable, sustainable freight flow. One of the fundamental...

The website says that they're accepting bus tickets and also includes copious instructions about how to hail and board a tram - clearly aimed at people who have never used the service!

Not seen this anywhere else, so forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere. Apparently, the Manx Electric Railway is running a strike timetable this week due to industrial action on the buses. Trams are timed mainly to get kids to and from school with a before-9am arrival into Derby Castle...

I have a memory of having to shuffle through the train for a couple of carriages to get off, probably at Leeds. But it was decades ago so not reliable...

Weren't the Eurostar sets that were used on King's Cross-Leeds services longer than the platforms, at least at one end of the oute?

I'm writing a novel in which the main character gets a job at Old Oak Common depot in the mid-1990s, aged about 18-20. What would have been the entry-level jobs at that time and what sort of activities would they have carried out? What qualifications would they need? Also, would it have been...

St Pancras wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for those blo*dy pianos!

There was an announcement recently of £25 million of seed funding for the Forth Green Freeport (FGF) that includes including a feasibility study for reactivation of a dormant branch line at the Port of Rosyth for container trains. Could be the start of something, I suppose, especially if, as now...

I got asked by the lady on the southbound Thameslink platform at St Pancras the other day to turn off my front battery light; it's so feeble you can hardly see it at night, let alone on a brightly lit platform. The St Pancras people seem very conscientious in my experience - they are one of the...

I think there is a danger that we're descending into the politics of envy and giving in to government's attempts to divide and rule. Taking away one group's 'perks' will not necessarily mean that there will be more money magically available to others. If anything, if the government finds that it...

My relatives will be a bit old for house-buying when the time comes (I hope), but that's besides the point. But you seem to be objecting to the fact that I am using my 'wealth' to help them become property-owners and lift themselves out of poverty?

If they're lucky, my nieces and nephew will get about £100,000 each when I finally croak; hardly likely to make them members of the landed gentry, I would have thought.

Such as disinheriting the next generation to push them even further into poverty?

Good luck with that one - some of the old ladies in our town can be pretty vicious.

I don't think £100 million is going to make much of a dent in the nation's social spending bill. Another objection is that, if large numbers of over-66s start to use buses instead of trains, it will thrust more of the burden onto them, so existing (paying) bus passengers will suffer in terms of...

I don't think my taxes/council tax are going to magically fall because the scheme isn't in operation any more.