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The Plough in Old Malden is a Miller and Carter restaurant. There is also one of this chain in Sheffield.

Before my summer break, I managed to walk the River Wharfe from its confluence with the Ouse at Cawood as far as Otley. I’ve just finished the rest of it, and am celebrating with a £1.99 pint of Harvester Stout in the Spoons at Otley. You may have gathered I have not walked it in order or in...

I went in 2014 and found the trains excellent, so it looks like things may have gone downhill since! However, I am here to recommend El Djem if you can get there. The amphitheatre is stunning.

If it was £2 minimum, it should have come to £12, I suppose. It did ask if I had a railcard.

Cheers for the heads-up. Three returns for £9.30 with railcard.

Glad you posted this thread. It inspired me to contact Northern about a fantastic guard who kept all the passengers informed about the points problems etc at Sheffield on Saturday. Hope she gets the message.

Perhaps the most epic detective railway journey is that of Sherlock Holmes’ attempt to evade Moriarty by travelling from London to Switzerland. An attempt was made to recreate it today, and a rather excellent video it is:

There is justification for this activity: In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Isiah 6:1. King James Bible I presume his train was a Circle Line. These evangelicals are glorifying the event.

In the early 80s I asked my class (as part of a lesson on urban development) who had an outside toilet. There was just one student out of 30. This was in a Yorkshire pit village; nobody took the mick out of him for it. In the early 60s, my great-grandparents had their ash toilet at the top of...

That’s right! Dame=Lady with Microsoft (MS) Office. Your turn.

Time for a clue? It’s on a preserved railway and holds a record for something.

Thanks Dale! Lady uses their office at station

Manorbier?

It’s a difficult one! The Hyde line certainly swings right soon after the junction, but I always perceive the trains as turning leftwards towards Bredbury immediately at the station. (Image shows OS map extract of Romiley station and junction) Edit: found a picture from Geograph showing...

Romiley - the fast line to Piccadilly turns left, while the line towards Hyde goes straight on.

This keeps coming up, and I don’t see any advantage (not least of which Doncaster Airport has closed). The hourly Northern stopper takes about forty minutes between Sheffield and Doncaster, whereas the tram-train takes twenty-three minutes just to get to Rotherham. After that, where would it go...

Thank you so much for your explanation and subsequent analysis of the situation. I know the strategy but had never heard it called that before. Cheers!

My Ibis hotel in Den Haag now suggests I put the ‘Do not disturb’ sign up, not because I don’t want the chambermaid to see me in a naked hungover state (or worse if there are two of you in the room); but because by not cleaning the room that day, they will save twenty litres of water. Actually...

Sorry, a bit late on this @Cowley but what is ‘shiny dead cattery’? Is this an intellectual joke I’m too thick to understand? Or some south-western expression? :D

I don’t know if FlixBus have ‘standards’ for their operators, but I took the overnight bus from Leeds to London last night, and the seats were really close to each other. It was a newish Yutong, but unfortunately I didn’t note the operator. It used to be Whippet, and although their shortcomings...