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Black Boy Lane Haringey London N15 is now La Rose Lane after Caribbean born John La Rose. Oxford has had numerous road renamings, here is a link to a 7 page pdf on the subject https://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/streets/xtra/name_changes/name_changes.pdf

Two services, Morebus M1 and M2, which run 24/7 apart from a 3 hour gap 0115 to 0430

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deleted as mentioned pre grouping steam trains excluded by op

The Gartell Light Railway operates a 25 minute interval timetable

The Daily Telegraph has just caught up with the story, implying that this will be the end of steam trains in Britain

There is, of course, the ninth Beatitude "Blessed are they who do moan and whinge, for they get their own way in the end"

welcome to Lymington, the snootiest town on the south coast The fun - for want of a better word - started with the closure of Woolworths, and the suggestion that an Argos store could be opened there. One of the shopkeepers who basically sells expensive tat to the tourists suggested that an Argos...

would that include RT1 because it entered service as ST1140 with a second hand body, then rebodied and reclassified as RT1? the Bournemouth open top trolleybuses would be disqualified as they were rebuilds of existing buses suggest Hastings 1A to 8A, open top double deck trolleybuses

The concrete station signs at least Egloskerry, Treesmer, and Delabole on the North Cornwall line were still in place in the early 70s. Delabole's sign has now been restored and moved to a place of safety

London trolleybuses had 754 with front entrance, 1379, the prototype for the Kingsway subway, and 1671, which had two axles at the front, both part of the steering, and a single rear axle Bournemouth had "Queenie", the Thorneycroft/Brush single deck prototype trolleybus, and the three open top...

The Talyllyn used to use gravity shunting at Tywyn Warf. In pre preservation days, any carriages would be left at Pendre, and the wagons would be propelled into the various sidings at Warf. On one occasion, the driver got it wrong, and the wagons ended up on the Cambrian tracks. For the first...

There was the Bristol, London and South Western Junction Railway, which got as far as a Parliamentary bill. It did have the backing of the LSWR. The proposed route would have begun at Grateley, through Amesbury and Imber, to join the Bristol and North Somerset Railway at Radstock, then about 1...

something similar was previously discussed on this forum https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-lines-proposed-but-never-built-or-where-a-line-should-have-been-built.153074/ Cornwall's first railway, apart from the Portreath plateway, the Redruth and Chasewater, never operated to...