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The Dundonald International Ice Bowl is home to the Belfast Giants ice hockey team, current UK Elite League champions. Dumfries also has an ice bowl. It is home to the Solway Sharks, current winners of the Northern Premier League.

Halbeath

Curiously I had a repeat of the same experience as related in post#54 today in a different pub in West Dorset. The power went off after we had ordered food. Fortunately for us they had a gas hob and the roast beef and potatoes were already done, so we did get our lunch! (I am partial to a...

Pontypool was involved in the development of iron smelting technology from mediaeval times, with a blast furnace being built there as early as 1536. All iron smelting was carried out using charcoal until Abraham Darby developed a way of smelting iron with coke at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire in...

Causewayhead

Meon Hill near Upper Quinton is one of only two multivallate hill forts in Warwickshire*. The other is Beausale Camp near Beausale. * - Upper Quinton is in Warwickshire, although it used to be in Gloucestershire.

Saltford

I was in a pub in West Dorset when the power went off in towards the end of the evening when a number of customers had eaten food but not paid for it yet. The landlord was really cool about it, collecting a combination of cash from those who had it, promises to pay tomorrow from customers he...

Abbots Leigh and Long Marston in Warwickshire are both places where King Charles II stayed the night during his escape from England after his final defeat by Parliamentary forces at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

Dunkerton Colliery Halt

Portskewett (2nd station - 1863 to 1964) (Noting that the order shown on the Wiki template for the South Wates Main Line is confusing and suggests the wrong order for the 1st and 2nd stations. Evidence: the Wiki entry for Portskewett railway station, which says that the new station was 800...

The placename element "Eaves" refers to proximity to a mediaeval forest. Bashall Eaves is close to the Forest of Bowland. Woodhouse Eaves in Leicestershire is or was close to Charnwood Forest.

Crumlin Valley Colliery Platform

Bessingby has a rather attractively named road called Butterfly Lane. So does Calverton, Notts.

Trecynon Halt

Briton Ferry Road

Good guess but not fast enough - they wanted a 100mph unit Not ready for the scrapyard in 2001 Definitely not ready for the scrapyard 100mph and slam door - just the job! 309616 and 309624 were reclassified to Class 960 and ended their days at Old Dalby. @D6130 - your empty test track to...

Right idea - EMUs have lots of space for test gear and test engineers and suitable controls to interface with - but think about the West Coast operating context.

Nope. No clues yet!

Sticking with the ETCS/TCS theme, there were two test trains used at Old Dalby to demonstrate the West Coast TCS concept in 2001/2 in parallel with conversion of the line to a Pendolino test track. What class were they converted from?