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    Blackpool South - Blackpool Central

    Blackpool Central was massive. Was in it a few times when it became a Bingo Hall.
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    Derailed train between Arbroath/Montrose

    Mindless fools could easily have become mass murderers. Let's hope their caught and soon.
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    The Cuban missile crisis; WHAT IF?

    Was always a bit bemused to who were the good and bad guys back then. Living in a country (Scotland) were Christmas had only become a public holiday since 1958, were everybody i knew used an outside toilet and we were all it seemed, poor as church mice. Still we had freedom. No money to go...
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    BBC "History of Wales"

    Watch it, thought it was very informative. What's for sure, the days of London ruling the roost are gone forever.
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    Voting Age

    Having read this entire thread i've came to the conclusion 16 year olds would need to be drunk to vote for Alex Salmond. Correct.
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    Being Teetotal

    There nothing worse than being landed next to a group of drunks on a train.
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    Voting Age

    Strange but true, the vast majority of those who fought (and died) in WW1 had never voted.
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    What are the steepest gradients on the UK rail network?

    Leaving Girvan for Barrhill/Stranraer is pretty steep.
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    Enoch Powell

    He also ended the war by voting Labour.
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    Jimmy Savile

    How would you substantiate such a thing from 30/40 years ago? Other than women who were sexually abused coming forward.
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    Jimmy Savile

    Notice his headstone is being removed by the family. Wonder what will become of his charity. As for those posters saying the 70s was different, they're right the 70s were another country. There might be more than old show biz types who are worried. A lot of this was pushed under the carpet. How...
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    Same-Sex Marriage: Cameron, Osborne and Hague against their own Party?

    Not unlike the strange case of the Scottish Assembly referendum back in 1979. A straight Yes/No vote you'd think. Oh but hold, to get a Yes win there had to be 40% of the entire Scottish voting public saying Yes. So those who didn't vote counted as No votes. One Nation......
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    Same-Sex Marriage: Cameron, Osborne and Hague against their own Party?

    No problem with the whole gay marriage thingy in the Scottish Tory party. Ruth Davidson, the party leader, is openly gay.
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    New "One nation" Labour catchphrase

    No doubt Alex wonders what planet the Labour leader is living on.
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    Flight Help - South East - Belfast

    There's also a Liverpool sailing.
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    New "One nation" Labour catchphrase

    One Nation, yeh stroll on. A strange term used back in the day when the Tories held working class seats in places like Glasgow and Liverpool. As if any Tory MP cared about poor sods stuck in a council flat. Then the work disappeared. Along with the Tory MP. Even the mugs who voted for them...
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    Longest/shortest services without/with catering

    Glasgow-Stranraer boat train after privatization became food and drink free. From a buffet and hard to believe now, a first class coach, to a virtual sealed train. Like the one the little chap who started the USSR travelled in. Not bad for what was an inter-city train.
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    Kenny Everett

    Who exactly was he married to? And it shows how some people back in the 60s and 70s got upset by Kenny's antics. When maybe they should have been taking.a closer look at programmes like "Jim'll fix it".
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    Things to do in Glasgow

    Taking your posting on here i be looking to have a look at the two mainline stations starting with Central Station. I'd take a train to Partick from Central low level. Go down the the stairs from Partick station into the Subway station and take a take a train to Queen Street Station...
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    Should public transport be free?

    Bus travel is free to all Scottish over 60s. They can travel from Aberdeen to Ayr if they wish. Ireland, North and South is the same i believe. Cork to Belfast and back for nothing. Public transport should be free to all regardless of age. It's no big deal unless you believe the present...

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