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I often cycle that road, on my way to and from the micropub in Hayes. Wasn't aware of the name, but until a few years it was a national speed limit road (60mph) in what was otherwise a 30/40mph area, so I assume that's where it got its name. The limit is now reduced to 40mph - sensibly, in my...

If you'd nicked something, why would you then go to a police station and hand it in? Perhaps the little cogs of the policemen's brains might have got clogged up as they turned over the possibilities... I suppose you might hang around at Euston station looking for dropped tickets; though the...

That's a good one, I might use that.

Swan & Sugarloaf in south Croydon. Named after a local pub which is now a Tesco, sadly, but the bus stop may still carry its name.

Thanks for all the interesting replies. So I think it would be fairly unlikely that she would have easily have been able to get hold of a priv ticket. I'm trying to create a scenario in which someone living on the breadline in London finds the wherewithal to afford a rail trip back to Holyhead...

How effectively would it have been policed though? If she was a niece on the father's side, she'd have the same surname. (And as they're Welsh, both sides of the family would have been called Jones anyway...) And what would have been the logistics of priv tickets then? Uncle would have applied...

I'm writing a novel set in the late 1990s. At that date, what 'priv' tickets would a fairly senior railwayman be entitled to and would they be able to obtain such tickets for family members, specifically a niece? This would be for a journey from London to Holyhead.

I was quite enjoying them...

I vaguely remember a loop in the Tile Hill area between Coventry and Birmingham International where a local train would occasionally recess to allow an intercity to pass. But that was in the 1980s.

Personally, while I hardly ever use Eurostar personally my Missus does and her experience is that it is eye-watering expensive and unreliable. Late trains, cancelled trains - - all for a fare well north of £300 return if you don't book the thing weeks in advance. On the very rare occasions I've...

Some of the pre-tunnel rail/sea services weren't bad. Train to Dover, straight onto a fast Seacat, straight onto the train in Ostend - around 5 hours to Brussels perhaps? I also found the Dover/Calais hovercraft quick and convenient and there was a coach service on this too as I recall. None of...

I remember that service. It ran from Ashford station to Calais centre and shopping city, I recall. We used to use it quite a bit back in the day and it was always reasonably well patronised when we were on it - admittedly that was mostly on a Saturday which was probably its busiest day. I can't...

What about the Hythe Pier Railway?

I was thinking more of lines actually passing through a depot building. Lines passing through goods sheds would be an interesting variation on the theme though. I wonder what the rationale of the Queen's Park situation is or was. I would have thought the through lines would be of only limited...

Apologies if there has already been a thread on this. I have done a search and haven't found anything. Are there any other examples, either in the UK or abroad, of running lines passing through depots, like Queens Park on the Bakerloo Line? The Volks Electric, possibly?

Don't know if anyone else has been getting GWR ads on their Internet feed but it looks as if at least one British train operator has seen the light and is reintroducing compartment stock on their daytime trains. Not sure about the four-a-side seating on the British loading gauge though...

Now gone but I remember taking a flight that went Heathrow-Plymouth-Newquay back in the 1980s. About 30-40 miles as the crow (or plane) flies? Not sure if the Plymouth-Newquay leg was bookable and don't think it was available in the return direction.

Reopen/refurbish a railway in a developing country and let the locals travel on it for free...

I'm pretty certain there was a Ferodo advert on a rail overbridge in Caernarfon, which was appropriate as the firm had a factory there. CL

There was a temporary platform built at the end of the Amlwch branch line in about 1993 for a handful of DMU specials that operated on the line. It was a couple of hundred yards south of the Octel loop sidings. The old terminus station had disappeared many years previously.