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You may be thinking of Coppermill Junction, where the 1872 GER line to Liverpool Street via Hackney Downs diverges from the original (1840) Northern & Eastern Railway main line via Stratford - so not that one. But you are on the right route.

Hmm - maybe a clue needed. Most trains passing over the junction are operated by Class 745 units.

Flicks in the Sticks are showing the film Glenrothan at Ashford Carbonel village hall on 10th November 2026. If you miss it there it will be next shown at the Silvester Horne Institute, Church Stretton, Shropshire, on the 19th.

Dalry Junction

There is a lot of confusion about this. VOIP can work over either a copper wire or a fibre cable. What doesn't work over a fibre cable is an analogue (PSTN) phone. So the switchover to fibre means loss of the PSTN phone and forces you to use a VOIP phone like BT "Digital Voice". @edwin_m has...

Investment. Relaxing the rules on Cryptocurrency as Reform is promising them the donors they would do will recoup their investment a hundred times over. AKA corruption.

BBC News this evening: So the people who stand to make most money out of AI are saying the development should be slowed down, but of course DJT knows better. Opinions on the latter had better go in the Trump thread. IMHO, anyone who now suggests that the risks are small is either stupid...

Ok. Where (on the railway network) is Coopers Lane Junction?

Inverness is another town (sorry, city) whose name is associated with a particular type of garment.

Bannister Green Halt

Posting a picture of one might prompt memories.

Indusi is a German form of train protection - a bit like AWS/TPWS but I can't remember the details. I think Newcastle Metro is fitted with it.

To be fair it was Edith Nesbit's approach really - Jenny Agutter put it into effect in the film version of the book! I did once do the climbing over the fence and picking up the SPT bit. It was in 1979 just north of Northallerton on the ECML. I was walking my two small children along footpath...

Newtown Halt

Caister Camp Halt

Scratby Halt

Lindores Abbey in Newburgh claims to be the birthplace of Scotch Whisky, with the first record of distillation being in 1494. Welsh whisky is usually considered as a modern invention, but some claim that whisky was being produced in Wales as early as the 4th Century. This is disputed, but...

Little Ormesby Halt

Buckie Thistle is the local football club. Partick Thistle is considerably better known, but hasn't played in Partick since 1908. It plays at the Firhill Stadium in Maryhill, Glasgow.

Melton Constable