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Strange, at about 14:25, I was waiting at a bus stop for a bus timetabled for 14:54, - I couldn't see it on the Bus Times tracker map, yet it turned up just one minute late. It seemed that the app worked for Arriva buses, but not small operators buses such as that which I was waiting for. Maybe...

There's a stretch of cobbled street complete with interlaced track preserved along Rugby Road in Portsmouth. See here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GAW7bT2g3HWpNtPv9?g_st=aw

In a roughly chronological order: Liverpool St to Chingford, c. 1958 quint art pulled by N7 Aldgate to Watford (Met) c. 1960 in 'T' stock EMUs Barking to Kentish Town, 1959 hauled by Stanier 2-6-2T Wien Westbahnhof to Oostende (via Passau), 1963 return from school trip in couchettes Liverpool St...

Apologies, I had you as a Scotland resident in my mind. However Gwynedd is more than a weekly visit to Waitrose unless you are near the Menai Strait where there is one on Anglesey at Menai Bridge. Worth a special visit to see what they do have - but beware, probably more expensive than other...

That's a shame, down here Waitrose normally have monkfish. I appreciate that there aren't many branches north of the border.

There was a case for naming the line something other than crossrail when the core opened as there was a hope that Crossrail 2 might happen, but a moe snappy name would really have been better.

SPADS aren't deaths though, on the roads there are over 260 deaths every two months

You have many cheaper fares outside the SE. In the SE, even with a purchased railcard, cheaper fares are only available after 09:30 or 10:00 on weekdays. Much of the wealth that London contributes to the GDP comes from international banking, insurance and other non-manufacturing services. That...

Although within the normal operating range of 6.25KV, was the 6.6KV maintained after the frequency change, or because of the planned 6.25KV elsewhere, were the components (mainly transformer) regarding the two nominal voltages as compatible?

There would be no point in having a pole near the doors on a 800 where the doors are only single width. I imagine that the issue with the pole on the 700s is the exceptionally wide vestibule area and the safety need to provide something for standees to hold on to. Would it not be possible for...

Not all of them but it doesn't matter anyway, I hadn't seen it in 'the media' first so that's irrelevant to me. I can't see what the problem is even if it was media originated. This is such a trivial matter.

Anything that reduces burning hydrocarbons is a good thing, so maybe that was the intention of the charges.

Whatever traction the line had is irrelevant to a nickname. For 85 of those 101 years, there was no such thing, actual of fictional as a 'clockwork orange' to name the line with as the book was released in 1962 so whatever the line was called then is irrelevant to this thread. That's your...

You are missing the point here, there are members of the public outside the subway's catchment area, and (you should be flattered here) that public that has actuallty seen and maybe ridden on the trains, have also called the line the clockwork orange. Strange, I never thought that Glasgow people...

So the answer to the question posed in the title of this thread is - yes, but the locals don't seem to like it, even though it is part of a public transport system. :rolleyes:

That's about normal. Kidney is not a "less desirable" cut of meat. and there are only two per animal. Beef mince however can be any spare off cuts of the animal depending on the quality of the butcher's range and as long as it looks OK, so really that can be the potentially less desirable food.

Yes many times. 'Misery Line' is usually trotted out by local newspapers giving column inches to commuters complaining about 'their' route into London. I've often thought that these complainers live in a bubble where problems on other lines can be fare worse but they just don't notice. As far...

I found it: a) quaint b) interesting c) efficient and convenient. I've always liked Glasgow and the Glaswegians that I've met, but I can't understand why a few here are so precious about what their metro is called by others.

By the few that might want it.

In 1987 I did the Glasgow Subway circuit whilst visiting there with my son. We were amused by the tiny trains that popped out their tunnels at eye level, - a miniature of the deep Tube running in a circle and between ourselves, we likened it to a clockwork trainset that was orange and called...