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At about 9.20 this morning there was a bus crash in the centre of Brighton involving two doubledeckers of Go-Ahead Brighton and Hove, leaving two passengers with life-threatening injuries, three others with multiple injuries and many walking wounded. Most of the city centre was cordoned off...

A tram which was one of the few to withstand the dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945 has been restored and put to use on a special service in Hiroshima until the end of August. It is car 653 and runs close to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the only building in the area to remain intact after the...

My wife will be making the above, relatively straightforward train journey within the next two or three weeks, returning within a few days, changing at Reading. I was wondering whether there is any financial advantage in obtaining split tickets for the journey and, if so, where the split...

You may be interested to know about a day of action (a strike, in effect) by a group of SHOPKEEPERS being proposed in Penzance. We (I am one of them) are so fed up with our unitary council in Cornwall imposing increased car parking charges way beyond the inflation rate, while at the same time...

I've had almost no support on here for getting rid of this noisome act, so a little in advance of results from the General Election I'd like to quote from a letter in today's 'Times' newspaper which, as you may know, I'm unable to provide a link to, but I can assure you I am quoting directly...

Most of you will probably be aware that today is the centenary of the start of the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War, commemorated in Australia and New Zealand as Anzac Day. The suburb of Eltham in S.E. London, where I grew up, has had an association with the Gallipoli Campaign and those...

In the course of a mildly entertaining article in the Telegraph Magazine of 7/2/15 the writer Andrew Barrow, describing his trip with his son on Britain's longest train journey from Aberdeen to Penzance, writes 'sadly we don't stop at the amusing-sounding Doddy Cross station'. From where this...

Always used to renew my TV licence at the Post Office, until that option was withdrawn a few years ago, after that by post. This year, after I don't know how many entreaties, I relented and did it through their approved method, their website. Took a lot of unnecessary faffing around until...

On a radio programme this morning on the subject of people walking out of jobs and their feelings having done so, a woman phoned in to say she had been working as a conductress on a London 73 bus when she noticed a stream of 'hippies' walking down Oxford Street and asked one of them what was...

4O years ago today McDonald's opened their first U.K. restaurant in Woolwich, S.E. London. Although the occasion attracted quite a lot of local attention in the media it barely rated a mention in the national press, as McDonald's up to then was purely an American phenomenon. I visited that...

Other than bus services provided for supermarket and other shoppers, what free bus services still exist for the general public in the U.K. on a regular basis, like the one that used to be in Leeds city centre?

As someone who has been interested in London bus services these past sixty years, I have often wondered why two particular places have been joined together by one bus service when other, seemingly more obvious places, have rarely or never had a direct connection. As an example of two towns...

What sacrilege the BBC has committed in allowing the most wonderful pop song/production of all time to be bowdlerised like this. Brian Wilson's own participation only highlights the collective deficencies of the others. If your surname's not Wilson, Love, Jardine or, at a pinch, Johnston, then...

There are cathedrals (a mix of C of E and RC) in 27 towns (as opposed to cities) in the U.K. I wonder (A) if they are all within a mile or two of a railway station and (B) which rail service connects the optimum number For the pedantic amongst you, all cathedrals within Greater London...

Official figures published in the Times 2/10/14 show that the NBfL achieves much fewer miles per gallon than claimed by Boris Johnson when he unveiled it. The 11.6 mpg was only achieved in tests at Millbrook: actual figures are 6.2 on the 9 route and 6.5 on the 10 which are virtually the same as...

The London Omnibus Traction Society is reporting that the 137 from Brixton garage will receive LTs in November WITH CUSTOMER ASSISTANTS. This will be the third LT route in South London, but the first with 'conductors'.

Mods' note: split from Bus ticket accounting/audit I share your sense of offence, but we are where we are. In these days of cost/benefit analysis everything is skewed towards the 'haves' not the 'have nots'. Even in London the next Underground project...

I was just thinking the other day about termini of yore and reflecting on those quite major ones that have either fallen into disuse or are a shadow of their former selves. I am not referring to those that merely moved down the road a bit, but have disappeared because of changing travel patterns...

Can anyone help me, please? I'd like to know what turnback facilities exist on the Jubilee line, in which direction and whether any scheduled services use them (other than Wembley Park), also whether any conditions apply to use e.g. in dire emergencies only. Any info. on here will be gratefully...

I have a friend with a peripheral interest in railways, principally because he regularly travels from Penzance to both Plymouth a nd London. He has an acquaintance who works in a management role for one of the major supermarkets in the West Cornwall area. Said person was telling him over a drink...