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The origins of the name are unclear. It may derive from the Old English for Buck Stone or for Rocking Stone. Rocking stones (also known as logan stones or logans) are large stones that are so finely balanced that the application of just a small force causes them to rock. The Pontypridd Rocking...

Calne in Wiltshire is also in the North Wessex Downs hill range, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Having suffered some knees problems through winter, I decided to test them out again by continuing on with the London LOOP (section 17). A nice sunny day saw the start from Cockfosters station onwards over the fields and country parks of Enfield Chase to finish near to Enfield Lock station and...

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You may apply for any grade of job that is advertised. However, if you are successful and then go to the Initial Signaller Training (IST) course, you are paid Grade two during the training irrespective of the actual grade for the location you applied for.

Wheelton, Lancashire is also on the route of the Leeds Liverpool Canal.

Cowes, Isle of Wight was also targeted during the Baedeker raids in 1942.

Christopher John Hesketh-Harvey (30 April 1957 – 1 February 2023) was a British musical performer, translator, composer, and screenwriter. Hesketh-Harvey owned All Saints' Church in Stoke Ferry until his death on 1 February 2023, at the age of 65. Hesketh-Harvey was educated as senior chorister...

Bristol was also the location of a shot tower. A shot tower is a tower designed for the production of small-diameter shot balls by free fall of molten lead, which is then caught in a water basin.

The splendidly named Beaumont Griffith Jarrett was an English footballer who earned three caps for the national team between 1876 and 1878. Jarret was ordained in 1878 and continued his career with the church. He was the vicar of Swinstead from 1883 to 1895 and rector of Belleau, Lincolnshire...

Corby Glen, Lincolnshire is also a venue for a sheep / lamb fair.

Bramdean, Hampshire is also the location of a monument to a horse.

The first authenticated spelling of the name was Wodensbyri, written in an endorsement on the back of the copy of the will of Wulfric Spot, dated 1004. Wednesbury ("Woden's borough") Another location in England to be named after the pre-Christian deity Woden, the leader of the Old English...

Thanks. I'm not that technically minded with these newer trains.

They seemingly have live car park information, about remaining spaces. Scroll down to the relevant part. https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/travel-information/station-information/mkt Reply on X, from Greater Anglia.

I'd prefer Thurso, if you don't mind. :lol:

Trouble over Bridgwater is an album by the band Half Man Half Biscuit. Many of their songs reference people or places. Another of their many albums is titled CSI:Ambleside, which has a picture of the Priest's Hole restaurant and Royal Oak pub in the Cumbrian town on the cover.

Constance Mary Whitehouse CBE (née Hutcheson; 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society. She became an art...

A feasible idea to fit an additional overspeed grid, only activated when the route to the Up Slow is set/signalled. I fear that there may be some 'excuse' from Network Rail why they wouldn't be able to do this. Historically, the train could've been routed onto the Up Slow just after the signal...

Probably the shorter section to Great Ponton, as previously mentioned. To be put onto the Up Slow at Stoke would mean running all the way on there until Tallington.