Search results

New Street might not have historic architecture, but it does have a challenge of being in a very confined city-centre location. 1789464760 And announcements on arriving trains, both automatic and manual, and across operators, have been telling people who need to change to use the A end for...

Marginally less confusing for occasional station users, maybe, but massively detrimental to virtually everyone else, including people who live and work in Birmingham.

On this, I wonder why they don't simply stop when there haven't been passengers for a while, instead of slowing down. You'd need to make sure that when they restarted it was smooth and didn't "jerk", and that might be a challenge, and because it's novel you'd probably need some signage to tell...

It's been mentioned a couple of times about narrow platforms... but they're not all narrow, are they? Platform 1 is really very problematic - other platforms have narrow "pinch points" where structures get in the way, but in general they're not that narrow. The problem with P1, it seems to me...

I'm squarely in the "I use New Street regularly and don't really see what's so confusing about it" camp, but I do think it would have helped a lot if there was a way to transfer between the two different A-end 'zones' without going out-and-back-in. In my head it would be a footbridge over the...

There are, they are just up the central escalators in Grand Central. They're not operated by the station, instead by Hammerson who operate Grand Central, but really the distinction is academic, it's the same building. The problem here, I suspect, is that you have to know about them and perhaps...

Wolverhampton for Dixy Chicken?

Perhaps it was just the bottled version, but I'm pretty sure it was brewed at what was Banks's Park Brewery* in Wolverhampton for a time. Not any more since it was disgracefully sold down the river by Carlsberg, of course.

There used to be a 'hotel' that used dorm rooms when the students weren't there... Days Inn? I distinctly remember one in Manchester?

I've stayed in my fair share of Travelodges when travelling for gigs, and had come to the conclusion that there are two distinct categories: 1. Conversions - where they've converted an existing building, usually an office block, into a hotel. Generally, these are older, and are a really mixed...

This thread has bought back vivid memories of childhood holidays in the Yorkshire Dales, and frequent visits to this ford, near Reeth: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3642181 Apparently, it was featured in the opening credits to 'All Creatures Great and Small' - which tracks! We used...

I'd say it's 6 of 1 and a half-a-dozen of the other. In my local Sainsburys (one of those 'shop on stilts' affairs with the shop hovering above the car park) one of the two lifts has been out of order for weeks, and very frequently is, which is a pain when the travelator in the up direction is...

Yesterday at Wolverhampton station someone was getting a priority response to their lift issue... a fire engine parked outside and several burly firefighters battling with lift doors that seemed reluctant to open.

The one at Birmingham New Street (Grand Central) has closed, replaced by one not much further away at Bullring, and there's one opening soon on Colmore Row in what used to be the Halifax branch - virtually opposite Snow Hill station.

It seems to me that the industry needs to agree to either: 1. Allow the taking of screenshots of railcards in official apps, and accept the consequent risk of fraud, or 2. Remove the requirement to provide a 'copy' of the railcard as proof that one is held, and provide some other method of...

Wow, loved that video! Kinda hypnotic just floating down the route. Loved seeing the container crane doing it's thing too! And the final shot of the Birmingham skyline in the distance... cinema.

Can I interest you in some magic beans, Jon? ;) I can offer you a very good price if you have a Beanscard.

They do also offer seats on a minibus, a safari truck, and you can even hire a 'VIP' jeep for a group of 6, with guides.

Small, yes, but an attractive place to spend a few hours especially in good weather.

Worth noting that Sainsburys do exactly the same thing, with a cheaper 'Nectar price' on many items for Nectar card holders, and even a 'My Necar price' on a handful of items personalised to your shopping history. Everyone knows it's a nonsense - the 'Nectar price' / 'Clubcard price' is the...