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Won't be too long before any rail staff we may come across in the course of our journeys become 'colleagues', especially if a supermarket chain decides to diversify into train operation. 'Please have your tickets ready for inspection by our colleagues; and don't forget, every little helps.':lol:

No, it wasn't that. It was definitely the 1990s and I have a vague memory (which could be false) that the word Broadway was in the title and it ran for 30 minutes a time. It was really before the internet era, so I don't think any info has necessarily been deleted, just that it may never have...

Wholeheartedly agree with you. Unfortunately, I think the age of the medium size, well-run independent is almost over, in England at least. There'll still be the odd exception (Delaines?) but local authorities will always favour having fewer operators to deal with, whether by franchising...

Before that, trolleybus 611 covered the same roads and had the same termini, even operated out of the same premises, coded HT for Highgate, then a depot, now a garage and renamed Holloway some time after the latter bus garage, coded J, closed in the 1970s. And then, way back in the early 20th...

I remember the name Mark Steyn from a long-running BBC Radio Four series that I'm pretty sure aired on Friday evenings and may well have indirectly replaced Letter from America. I'm sure America was in the title but, typically, Wikipedia makes no mention of it. Does anyone else remember it? He...

I don't want to be too critical, as you've obviously done some research, but (a) the 171 in its present form bears no resemblance to tram route 33, save a fairly short stretch of road between the Elephant and Camberwell Green shared with many other routes: the southern half of the route was...

The biggest fallacy about Tate and his ilk is that they are 'Alpha Males'. No woman with a brain and a miasma of self-worth would entertain a relationship of any description with him, unless seduced by the illusion they'd get a trouble-free payday out of him, which would never happen. I daresay...

Bridgen appears to have aligned himself with the Reclaim Party and is suing that other ex-Tory Matt Hancock, who turns out to have jointly authored a book with Zawahi back in the dim and distant. Maybe Matt did the colouring in.

Don't want to get too personal. but I've recently made a decision not to have elective surgery that I'm due to have because if it didn't go in the best possible way, which is frankly unlikely given my 'underlying conditions', I might well not be able to return to my own home for a long time, if...

Surely they should make the Last Post the final one to go? Tim Martin would prelude it of course by denying Brexit played any part. It could be followed by a ceremonial pyre with an effigy of Jacob Rees-Mogg atop. I'd attend that one.:D

The Times today carried a number of pieces on the various investigations/scandals/outrages that the government, its ministers, cronies, sycophants and financial donors (to the Tory party, of course, not the Exchequer) are mired in, and report that BBC journalists are enraged not only with the...

DRT - Dire Retarded Transport or Deluded Rationing Triumphs ?:'(

Given the derisory amounts so far obtained by the victims (or families thereof) of the Croydon high speed tram derailment accident I very much doubt that a huge pay day is in the calculation. Only the rich can afford to take their 'disputes' to the courts now, including those who are not even...

Animal cruelty laws?:D

Warrens is mostly in Cornwall, with a few in Devon and Somerset, plus one in Merthyr Tydfil, which there must be a story behind. Famous for having their pasty described by Mark Steel as being the worst he'd ever tasted when he featured Penzance in his radio series visiting towns. I'd only add...

Crowdfunding is paying for suitable netting to be erected so they can continue playing cricket.

Cash use has stabilised, according to the Bank of England, having declined a fair bit during the pandemic: indeed, they estimated 73% of the public had used cash at some time in January 2022, compared to about 50% in mid 2020 when the choice was probably more difficult. Also, there are more bank...

The only opinion poll I saw in Scotland prior to the legislation being passed showed widespread public approval of the principle of gander re-assignment, greater among SNP supporters than other parties though, but the idea of someone self-declaring was almost evenly divided, and the reduced age...

The Twin Rover was introduced in the early 1960s giving (almost) unlimited use of buses and underground for a day at a price of five shillings (25p) in 1964, which had doubled to ten shillings (50p) by 1968. I think it was only available at weekends and Bank Holidays, though. I can't be sure...