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Bethesda near Bangor is also a former slate mining community.

Looe? Arnold Ridley, who played Godfrey in Dad’s Army, was always asking to ‘be excused’?

Thank you for the explanation. They were indeed replacing the track and sleepers in platforms 1 and 2 this afternoon.

I am sure this has been mentioned in another thread which I can’t find, but why are Northern running stoppers (Sat 12th) from Manchester to Edale not Sheffield when TPE and EMR are running relatively normally?

Blackburn? Arnold was Tony Blackburn’s imaginary dog on Radio One. What do you think Arnold? Rowf Rowf!

The writing is a bit blurred, but no doubt somewhere in the article, it will say it causes cancer. :D

Mechelen-Nekkerspoel in Belgium is nearer the historic centre than the main station in Mechelen.

^I think 507020 was being sarcastic.

If abroad is allowed, Liege Guillemins must be the most spectacular by a country mile - leading to a miserable wet and windy platform experience at the slightest hint of bad weather. An absolute victory of style over function.

In Sheffield both Stagecoach and First run the 120 Fulwood - City Centre -Crystal Peaks - Halfway service. It is not a joint service, but the buses are evenly spaced so they are not running at the same time - though sometimes this happens because of congestion.

Ely is an ‘isle’ though surrounded by land. Similar is the Isle of Axholme, in which Epworth is the largest settlement.

Is correct. Mar = Spoil, and Gate = Barrier. Your go!

Spoil barrier at this station.

Bidston station also opened in 1866.

The comedian Harry Hill mercilessly persecutes Swaffham in You’ve Been Framed. He was born in Woking.

As @Peterthegreat says, no trains between Sheffield and Doncaster. Currently on a busy X78 bus.

This is through living in Hyde when I was growing up, then lots of walks in the Peaks, and now walking round Sheffield. The non-obvious one, Darnall, is because the Covid testing centre was a minute’s walk from the station. Anyway: Hyde Central, Woodley, Romiley, Marple, Strines, New Mills C...

Then we take the Buses of Somerset service 77 at 1230, arriving at Wells Bus Station at 1350 on Wednesday afternoon.

Pre-Covid, two trains a day ran to Southampton from Melksham.

Eric Thompson, the British narrator of The Magic Roundabout, went to school in Horsham. Swindon has its own ‘Magic Roundabout’, and is shown as such on road signs.