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With the introduction of another airport connection via Weston-super-Mare a few months ago (the A3 bus), the links to the airport were re-jigged. QAE deals with fares via Bristol Temple Meads and QAF for fares via Weston-super-Mare. Both of those link to XPB as the actual timetable destination...

Midnight doesn't exist in rail operations. 00:00 here probably indicates that no time was recorded when it passed Watford Junction and is just a filler for what would otherwise be an empty field. For late running trains there are other considerations, such as: the remaining hours for the...

Many "Blackboy" or "Black Boy" names in England are references to Charles II - who was known as the Black Boy by his family due to his dark complexion.

The Falkirk Herald website says that Grangemouth Community Council is pushing for the reopening scheme to be reappraised. This is from March 2024... https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/people/long-journey-to-bring-a-railway-station-to-grangemouth-now-back-on-track-4558713 The South East of...

The population of Britain is predominately white and so, on average, the workforce in any company will be predominately white. Statistically, it's impossible for every workplace to have an above average representation of minorities.

At some stage between it being built in 1880 and the present day the spelling of my street has change from Argyll to Argyle (and Sand Hill Road has changed to Sandhill Road). On the left a modern map derived from the Ordnance Survey and on the right the 1889 equivalent. I wonder when it...

Those "City Centre" suffixes have all been added downstream of the official data feeds, so they are specific to the journey planner rather than being official descriptions.

NLCs are the principal index for all fares locations. Just that in most online retail systems the indexing is done on the CRS Code instead. However, the NLCs are still there in the background and ticketing would fail without them.

It's not as if using the RSID in public-facing information wasn't the idea way back when they were invented.

Thanks for the clarification. The MerseyTravel website does clarify the validity though... When can I use it? Weekly, Monthly or Annual Tickets - Anytime any day. Activates on the day you buy it. Term Time Tickets - Monday to Friday before 8pm during term times only.

"Valid on Merseyrail services, on 16 - 18 Term Time Railpass only" I'm assuming that the Railpass is a separate document that needs to be held to purchase first ticket above. What then does the wording of that pass say about valid days/times?

It was changed to A a year or two back, to avoid any confusion with the platforms in the main station.

Embargoes on recruiting staff were BR's own decision. Often in advance of any reorganisations - of which there were many between the late 70s and early 90s.

That 1968 Tory win was but a brief interlude. In 1969 it was back under Labour control, and probably has been for most of the intervening years. David Blunkett and the 1980s "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire" springs to mind, as does Clive Betts and the financing of the 1991 World Student...

Liverpool Loop. Linslade Up Slow and Down Fast. I'm sure there must be others.