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There was a plan to fit HS1 with ETCS and I think the French have a cunning way to do that which allows TVM-only trains to operate as well, but of course it hasn't happened like most things ETCS in UK to be honest. Liz Line isn't ETCS through the core, but the trains are fitted with it for...

The Thameslink core from north of St Pancras Thameslink (on both MML and ECML branches) to east of London Bridge (towards the Brighton Line) and south of Blackfriars (towards Elephant & Castle) Moorgate to Drayton Park Part of the down line (I think) of the Hertford Loop as a test track, from...

Cradley heath Heathens were a motor cycle speedway team based at the Dudley Wood stadium, but both stadium and club closed down in 1995. Speedway races still continue in the UK and many other countries. The first race in the UK was held at High Beech in Essex in 1928.

Cymmer Afan

The holy well in Ruthvoe was restored in the 1980s. The water from the spring was brought through a pipe to a granite roadside niche built using reused stone from the old Albany school building in Newquay.

Kenfig Hill

The Minack Theatre near Purthcurno in Cornwall, like Babbacombe Theatre, was built gradually on a spectacular coastal site.

Chesterfield (1st station - 1840 to 1870)

Methley North

Gatley used to be a centre of button making. Buttons are still made in the UK by Courtney & Co at Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire.

St Oswald's church at Heavenfield near Wall in Northumberland, like St Mary's at Syde, is one of the very few remaining churches in England that still uses gas lighting.

Burton & Holme

Yeovil is the home of Ninesprings Country Park, which is well worth a visit if in the area. The nine springs feed streams and cascades that flow into a lake and then into the River Yeo. Seven Springs in Gloucestershire is also worth visiting if passing and is now usually accepted as the true...

That's so near I will give it to you. In fact the double track extends round the south to east chord as far as the 1900 yard single track runnel under the airport runway. The tunnel is Coopers Lane Tunnel and Coopers Lane Junction is at the far end, where the track is doubled again on approach...

Time for another clue. The junction is very close to and shares a name with what is by far the longest tunnel on the Anglia Route.

Stockport claims to have the country's only hat museum. That ignores the Wee Hat Museum at Newburgh, Fife.

Calthwaite

The Worcestershire Mobile Library also visits Childswickham on the fourth Tuesday of every month.

Newbie Junction Halt

You are getting extremely warm = but those are (rather boringly) Stansted South Junction and Stansted North Junction (and the third point of the triangle is Stansted East Junction).