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Acocks Green railway station (previously known as Acocks Green & South Yardley) was also opened by the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway.

Shepherd Market has been called the "village centre" of Mayfair. The current buildings date from around 1860, and house food and antique shops, pubs and restaurants. The market had a reputation for high-class prostitution. In the 1980s, Jeffrey Archer was alleged to frequent the area and was...

Holkham in Norfolk is also the location of a country house built in the Palladian style. Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).

South Ruislip station is also in London fare zone 5

They may have also been affected. I was thinking back to the BBC documentary from 1991. All the Class 91 fleet was taken out of service and you saw diesel hauled Mk4 stock with the driver wearing a bin bag to reduce the draught. link to YouTube. BBC Inside Story documentary.

Not helped today by "signalling problems" between Grantham and Nottingham. My train, already 11 minutes late, departing Grantham, was about 40 minutes late arriving at Nottingham.

Wexford, Ireland is another location where Burgage plots were granted. Burgage is a medieval land term used in Great Britain and Ireland, well established by the 13th century.

Farnborough (Main) railway station was also opened by the London & Southampton Railway.

I suppose it makes a change from the railway companies buying up.the "competition" and subsequently closing them. As an aside, we also saw railway companies operating/owning bus companies.

Arguably BR. Fair enough, it wasn't always rosy, but you had proper loco hauled trains, longer trains, and if needed additional stock or relief trains that could be utilised. A far cry from the problems we seem to see more and more these days, judging by the numerous threads on these forums...

It's varied over the years. S&T tend to salvage parts they may need, block indicators, signal repeaters etc, but in other cases the demolition teams have shown no regard for saving required parts and just demolished boxes with most equipment still inside. Most annoying.

And there was the 'wrong type of snow' failures of class 91's.

There also used to be a Skegness to Aberystwyth. I doubt you had many through passengers enduring a whole trip on a Class 153. You can now get a Liverpool Lime Street to Sleaford train on a Saturday. Previously it was Nottingham to Sleaford, but the service was formed off an inbound unit from...

Based of locations I formerly worked the scope of the LCP was limited. Whilst in 'normal' operating mode they had control of signals protecting level crossings, the routes could be overridden by the respective controlling PSB. However, when 'local control' was taken, it gave the signaller at...

I'm led to believe that many of the unit issues have been due to radiator fans getting clogged with pollen. Thus causing problems / failures. It could be suggested that the rail industry doesn't procure units that are able to cope with such differing temperature conditions.

Quenington in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire also has a connection with The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller

It's probably to do with thinning services out, those that are going further afield. However, the Lincoln service is quite often the first sacrifice during disruption or stock shortage.

Well, that's a bit bizarre. You would think the units were built to the same body style, even if they're different lengths. o_O Then again, it depends what the operator asked for.

If you scroll down the EMR page, about Rover tickets it does also say Source: https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/tickets-discounts/choose-the-right-ticket/ranger-and-rover-tickets

So, we keep reading of numerous door problems on these units. Are the door units the same as other operators units? If they are the same, how do those other users fare with door faults?