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Is it Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe as the "Blue team" on "Bargain Hunt" on BBC1 just now (Tuesday 1st March 2022) or just a couple of look-a-likeys?

Potentially interesting new book scheduled to be published in the next couple of weeks... Claims to give an insight to the business strategy and its delivery that underpinned the performance of the Chiltern Railways franchise. Includes a few eyebrow-raising anecdotes about the costing by...

As not many weekday Southern services call at both Plumpton and Cooksbridge, other than on a Sunday (it's usually one station only with trains non-stopping at the other) and this despite return fares between the two stations being available, could one instead legitimately make a local journey by...

So, what would be the position for the OP if booking tickets for a journey originating at some station which doesn't have ToD facilities?

Why isn't Hale a destination for through ticketing on the Manchester Metrolink (this to various "heavy rail" stations within Greater Manchester)? Link below to list of such stations, categorised Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3...

Is the online website for purchasing or renewing railcards working correctly just now? https://www.railcard.co.uk/

Filled up on Wednesday and it cost 140.9p per litre for petrol at a Sainsbury's site in East Manchester. Diesel was a few pence more. How much are folk having to pay elsewhere around the country?

Some examples of products which have been "new, improved and/or reformulated" over the years, supposedly as an improvement, but which were anything but... Coca-Cola's reformulation in 1985 (commonly referred to as "New Coke"). Widely considered as a failure and the original formula was...

In layman's terms, what's that involve, exactly?

"Shrinkflation" is the business practice where pack sizes of items (often food items) shrink in size or quantity, yet the selling price remains the same, or even increases! An example: Packs of McVities (Jaffa Cakes) Cake Bars came, until recently, in packs of eight and were being sold for £1...

...where a currently scheduled passenger train service calls at or passes through the two stations... A handful of examples... Berwick-upon-Tweed. Next nearest station is Chathill at 20 miles 79 chains. (Going in the other direction, Dunbar is 28 miles 32 chains away, so for the purposes of...

...and which remain open on essentially a 24 hours a day basis (such as possibly East Croydon and Gatwick Airport)? (Would imagine that there'll have been a few occasions when a late running train has been so heavily delayed that alighting passengers have then struggled to exit from an already...

Anyone know anything about the history of this tourist(y) attraction? Located about a couple of miles to the West of Dunbar in Scotland (East Lothian area).

Seeious incident being reported by the BBC this morning. Many fatalities / casualties... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57380615.amp Extract from news story...

What can be done (legally) to alleviate the problem of pigeons roosting and cr*pping everywhere, in and around a non-domestic building, such as at a railway station? (Installation of anti-roost spikes must be a possible solution, but presumably this isn't permitted whilst the little blighters...

Anyone got any idea what this flag is (or represents)? P.S. Colour is navy blue / white apparently.

Presumably still closed. Any plans for re-opening anytime soon?

Any particularly eye-watering examples of railway station car parking tariffs? Some to start off with... Carlisle station £12 (Daily rate Mon-Fri) (N.B. Similar rates at Oxenholme and Crewe and other Avanti managed stations) Haywards Heath £9.20 (Mon-Fri) Manchester Piccadilly £15 (10 hours...

Suppose some item of railwayana was sold at auction, and the "hammer" price was £100 (this figure so as to keep any calculations relatively simple). What overall amount might the buyer have to pay? What net price might the seller expect to receive? Presumably the difference, if any, will be...

Are there any television adverts out there, which you find to be particularly annoying when watching live TV... Some possible examples... Purple Bricks (Online estate agents) Seem to like to make out that they are something different. Only thing that they seem to do differently is charge a fee...