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Lulworth is also on the Jurassic Coast.

Cattal?

Gosh, anybody remember a bus called, I think, the Trans Lancs Express run by GMT, which may have been numbered 400? It ran from Bolton to Stockport via Bury, Oldham and Ashton. Presumably it didn’t cut the mustard with the economics as it doesn’t run now. Note: this is open to correcting as I...

are alternative views.

Although it has a cathedral, it isn't a city.

015 and 094 on 1414 Sheffield to Manchester. Good idea to double up on this busy route. Using platform 7 at Sheffield as will not fit into 2C.

Bradfield near Sheffield also has a St Nicholas church. It serves both High and Low Bradfield, so you could take either for the next post, I suppose.

Emily Davison, the suffragette, came from Morpeth. She was killed by a horse at the Epsom Derby.

Rather racist or stereotypical :D

This is intriguing. Why would you want to store old biscuits?

When I was in Italy a couple of years ago, there was almost always a group of boys - never girls - about 12-15 years old at main stations who would offer to help buy your ticket from the complex Trenitalia machines. They had expert knowledge of routes and tickets, were invariably efficient and...

Don’t forget to take your passport. Even though both countries are in Schengen there are sometimes checks.

If we can go abroad, Gent Zuid in Belgium, which closed in 1928, would be considerably more convenient than Dampoort or Sint Pieters stations, which are well out of the centre.

Where are you getting on?

I saw Joan Collins take a train from Stockport to Stoke in the late 70s. She sat in first class. Bizarre - you’d think she could afford a taxi. Also helped Toke Townley who played grandad in ‘Emmerdale Farm’ as it was then find his way out of Manchester Victoria.

Thanks everybody - forgot about the balloons!

Can I be really cheeky and ask for advice from you Bristol experts on here? I'm running a language camp at the moment in Shaftesbury, and we're having a day trip to Bristol; one of the staff can't walk long distances, so she will need to get the bus firstly from Ashton Court to Clifton (for the...

South Yorkshire Travelmaster Connect Plus also no longer issue counterparts. Most guards just look at the card without bothering to scan it, one or two do. Had a problem with a TPE guard who said I should have kept the receipt, but in the end he found a way to scan it.

^I thought ‘why would anybody do this?’ then when I went to Kiveton Park a month ago, someone had done exactly that.

Yes but... Boris’s pledge is so much in the future. Either he won’t have been elected; or he’ll just commission studies, the best way of ‘kicking the can down the road’. I’d prefer a pledge to electrify the current route now with some straightening and better signalling than some nebulous tunnel...