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Ospringe, Kent also saw persecution of people on religious grounds.

Patchway was also opened by the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway.

Hadley Wood is also situated between two tunnels.

Bintree, Norfolk also has a Community Market Garden.

Class 156 to Haltwhistle.

The emblem/badge of Penketh is three kingfishers. Thatcham Town F.C. situated in Thatcham, Berkshire are known as The Kingfishers.

Spotted a Rover P6 in Wellingborough yesterday. It was in Halfords car park, I was parked across the road.

Yes, Sleaford has a small staff room, but I don't think they have toilet facilities available (the key for the public toilet is kept in the ticket office - closed on a Sunday).

Central used to run some really odd services. Another was Lincoln to Worcester (can't remember which station). East Midlands Railway has an Ambergate to Cleethorpes and a Liverpool Lime Street to Sleaford service, as previously mentioned. The stock for the Nottingham - Sleaford portion was...

That may be the incident I was called to (Frinkley Lane near Barkston). If it is, the offending vehicles parted because the coupler on one coach wasn't secured properly. It had become unscrewed with the nut from it in the sump and the rest of the coupling attached to the other vehicle.

Edith Smith was born in Oxton, Merseyside. In August 1915 Smith was appointed to the Grantham Borough Police and was the first woman police constable in England with full power of arrest.

St Margaret's Church in Wormhill, Derbyshire, also contains examples of wood carvings by the splendidly named Advent Hunstone, who was born in Tideswell.

Was watching a video about diesel shunter last night. It had a Heaton/Gateshead trip to Berwick upon Tweed, for station pilot duties.

Interesting question. To some extent quite a bit, as the staff won't need a line blockage during the work, that a ground fixed signal might. As an aside I've seen footage of staff carrying out overhead line work whilst trains still run underneath. Admittedly it was in Switzerland, which may...

Class 700 to Finsbury Park

3J84, last Thursday. 66705 / 66754 heading for Grantham on the Toton circuit. Image: Railhead Treatment Train, England

Meanwhile, all available stock is utilised for a Footex.

Regis, Latin for "of the king", occurs in numerous English place names. The name usually recalls the historical ownership of lands or manors by the Crown. In other places it honours royal associations rather than ownership. The "Regis" form was often used in the past as an alternative form to...

A colleague described the RHTT as "Squirty Bertie". With the RHTT season beginning, then it's time to start work. Image vastly different from the source picture. Image shows an AI generated picture of a Railhead Treatment Train.

Myres Castle near Auchtermuchty in Fife also has an example of a building with a barrel vault ceiling.