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    The Transport Game (UK)

    We take the X10 Platinum service at 0903, operated by National Express WM to Merry Hill, arriving at 0918 on Friday Morning.
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    Station association

    Stockport is also served by Transport for Wales services.
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    Cryptic clues = station name

    Lambeg in N.I. ?
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    Settlement Association

    Gordon has the self-standing Greenknowe Tower, which reminds me of the similar Cow Tower in Norwich.
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    End of all remaining Covid restrictions in England

    It isn’t! I tried to be a bit subversive when I got to work very early and peel ours off, but they must have been superglued.
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    The dreaded British Summer Time (BST) change coming again - what happens to trains and connections running at that time?

    We are on a similar longitude to France, and I consider their hours more civilised, that is not being woken up by dawn at about five in the morning in midsummer. To keep on topic, years ago before the dates were standardised in Europe, I had an hour sat in Hell on the day the clocks went...
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    Things that used to be common place in people’s homes

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidh73/11108915026/in/photostream/ This is a cartoon explanation from Viz reproduced on Flickr on how the toastie maker was invented.
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    Things that used to be common place in people’s homes

    This does bring back memories! There also seemed to be a lot of adverts, very intensively, for various vegetable slicers/dicers, which presumably weren’t any good, or every home would have one now.
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    Settlement Association

    Burley-in-Wharfedale is more evidently situated on the River Wharfe.
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    Station association

    Lincoln Central is also a station where the second word seems to be optional.
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    Trivia: "InterCity" Services That Don't/ Didn't Stop At Any Intermediate Cities

    Hull Trains services that don’t start at Beverley do not call at any cities except Hull and London.
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    Cryptic clues = station name

    It is. FR is the code for Ryanair, nothing is 0 and me is me. Have a vegan burger and set the next clue.
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    Settlement Association

    Trowbridge also has a Greyhound pub.
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    Cryptic clues = station name

    Ryanair means nothing to me (not in Vienna, but at this station).
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    What was longest running (in years) loco hauled service by same class of loco

    Can’t beat the romance of the railways! Seriously, how fascinating!
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    Trivia: Railway related murals

    There is a massive mural on the side of the Frenchgate Centre in Doncaster directly opposite the station, part of which includes The Flying Scotsman. https://i0.wp.com/inspiringcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20211004_143119.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&ssl=1 The image is from...
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    Being asked for money in the street

    I think the same thing happened to a beggar in York. Somebody must have given him a North Cape jacket, which certainly kept him warm, but nobody gave him anything.
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    What's the justification for giving a whole class of school children a detention?

    Now come on, this is a revelation? Why did you become a serial truant? Was it because of whole class detentions? (In a desperate attempt to keep on topic).
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    What's the justification for giving a whole class of school children a detention?

    There is a distinction between disruption and lassitude. J’espere que vous parlez francais tres bien quand vous allez a Paris par l’Eurostar.
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    The Transport Game (UK)

    We take the 0817 Scotrail train from the station, arriving at Glasgow Queen St at 0837 on Monday morning.

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