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Unlike steady red lights, flashing red lights mean that everyone (eg including emergency services) has to stop. Is the same true of flashing red pedestrian lights?

Bescott Stadium ticket office and waiting room used to be open: Monday from 7am to 9am Closed Tuesday to Thursday Friday from 9am to 11am Saturday from 10am to 3pm But the WMR website says that it is now closed, though Trainline has the hours above.

A few years ago now but First Great Western used the Night Rivera sleeper stock and loco to operate a Penzance to Plymouth and return service in high summer.

Sort of sad to see National Car Parks are in administration. While their sites are often overpriced and badly maintained, it’s another cornerstone of the High Street that’s in trouble.

From 2010 to 2015 the Conservatives were in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, so it cannot all be blamed on the Conservatives. And also, on coming to power, the coalition was forced to implement austerity because of the economic crash under the previous Labour government of Gordon Brown.

One of the problems identified re the Worle Transport (ie bus) Interchange is the poor links to the railway station. During the lengthy remodelling works, some of the temporary stops will be er… several minutes closer to Worle station. And for the X1 at least avoids the circuitous route via the...

As well as being away from the town centre, it’s also further from the sea front (the main if not sole attraction of Weston). The buses used to terminate at Marine Parade on the sea front (and before that the bus station proper), but now stop well short of it.

Freshford also used to be a request stop, back in the day. But it’s well used now.

And yet the Lib Dems of North Somerset council want to join it.

The Winterstoke Road bridge is a very long way from the station!

Some people might assume erroneously that there is a signalman to stop trains if the crossing is blocked. Perhaps they should have red boxes (ie like red routes in London) to distinguish them from the more common and less important ones at road junctions.

It’s to pretend that they are proud of a country they secretly hate.

Yatton is high up there in the coziness stakes. Its a small station that has a community-run cafe on one platform and a proper waiting room and booking office on the other, GWR benches, footbridge (albeit without cover) and Brunelian stone buildings.

Amtrak includes the stripes of the US flag.

Which set of bigots are you referring to? The Welsh-language ones or the English ones?

The loops beyond Yatton station are used in times of service disruption to allow faster trains to overtake slower trains. But probably not 4+ times every day.

There is a Martins Bank archive website here: https://www.martinsbank.co.uk/. It has a lot of detail about their branch network, including Great Harwood, which survived as a Barclays branch until 2015.

Coryton really was designated as a halt by the GWR despite being a terminus. The same was true, for example, of Old Ynysybwl Halt, which was also the end of the line.

This is true. However, the official station entrance BR logo sign showed ‘Worle Parkway’ until they covered the word ‘Parkway’. Google street view shows earlier versions saying Parkway. So if the railways themselves can’t get it right, what hope is there for the public.

More unruly brats on board is just another reason to drive.