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At busy times, I have known Hovertravel to put on additional short-notice services to clear a queue. On the one occasion I was unable to board (with a through untimed rail ticket) they ran an additional flight about 10 - 15 minutes later. The Hoverbus operator changed last week from Stagecoach...

One issue to be aware of is journey planners showing incorrect connections at either Harbour or Pier Head because the actual connection time is less than the minimum the planner will allow. As an example, the ferry arrives at Pier Head at xx:40 and the train leaves at xx:47. The seven minute...

Different regulations and safety standards admittedly, but in the US it's mandatory for drivers of yellow school buses to stop short of the tracks at level (grade) crossings, open the passenger side doors, and check the tracks in both directions before driving across. That applies regardless of...

For the first time I that can remember, I haven't received a polling card this time, and it was no problem at all - I just gave my name and address and showed ID. Knowing how delayed much of my post is (subscription magazines etc.), it'll probably arrive tomorrow (or next week...). Having seen...

As another Surrey resident, I only had a single leaflet too. Before voting I did find a website which listed the four candidates and their election statements, but being pro-active enough to do a leaflet drop did encourage me to vote for the relevant candidate.

It's also expensive even by London standards. IIRC beers around £8/pint on my one and only visit (soon after it opened). Their website doesn't show drinks prices (no surprise there), but for a food comparison, burgers start at £13.50 and go upwards, breakfast is £14.45. It'll be interesting to...

The Greens were cross that they were pushed out before they had a chance to flounce out of their own volition. Like much of modern politics, it's the tantrums of a toddler birthday party writ large. The ultimate example is Trump, who seems to be having a permanent lifelong tantrum.

I've seen XC weekend diversions over the Portsmouth Direct at a weekend within the last few months, though I can't put dates to that. If so, that presumably means XC will just terminate everything at Reading whenever the route between there and Southampton is closed. Post privatisation XC have...

I'll admit that I've never been into it ;) In that area, if I've got time for a few minutes' walk I'd usually head for the King's Arms on Roupell St which doesn't quite meet the OP's conditions. If not, it'd be the Waterloo Tap or the Hole in the Wall.

There will be a close focus on minimising all costs (aka value engineering). "It's only another £50m while we're at it" is a recipe for runaway cost overruns. Existing nuclear sites were mostly planned, under construction or built by the Beeching era, so it was relatively easy simply to keep...

The problem with that would be the cost of rehabilitating the line beyond Blaenau. I remember looking at the accessible pounts of the line a decade or more ago, and it was getting pretty overgrown then. Unless someone has been doing some work since, I imagine there are bushes and even trees...

And the Waterloo Tap under the same viaduct but between York Road and the river. The Wellington on Waterloo Road is underneath and around the one-time rail link bridge between Waterloo and Waterloo East.

Post #706 in this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/longest-line-of-sight-uk.136247/page-24#post-5993711 included two panoramas taken from Liverpool cathedral tower, and showing just how prominent some Blackpool landmarks are from almost thirty miles away. Subsequent posts identified...

Ah, there's a name from the past - Derrick Beckett was one of my university lecturers half a century ago. He taught steelwork design and "architectural forms" if my memory is correct after so long! I think there is a typo' in your slope calculation: 60' deep with a horizontal width of 90' is 1 ...

And yet DfT seems willing to squander unknown but inevitably large amounts of taxpayers' money storing unused SWR trains in sidings all round the country. That's apart from the cost of (hopefully) maintaining them in usable condition, and shuffling them around between sites at intervals. All...

The LMS tried one out in the 1930s - I remember reading about it in a Locospotters' Annual article in the early 1960s. Contemporary article here: https://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/3rd-may-1932/127/the-karrier-ro--railer

Driving in Wales a couple of weeks ago, I found the inconsistency and number of changes of limit were the problems for me. Entering one village, there were signs for 40mph, then barely 100m further on were signs for 30mph, then about 30m beyond that, signs for 20mph. Meanwhile in a nearby...

SWR was already failing before Covid, although that's provided them with a convenient excuse for their lousy performance and inconvenient timetables. The promises SWR made in 2017 - a revised and restructured timetable, enhanced services, refurbished and reliveried trains - were already...

In the 1980s, Camden Council renamed the former Selous Street in Camden Town to Mandela Street, honouring Nelson Mandela. This provoked something of a media furore at the time, though I doubt if many of the complainants realised just what a dismal little alleyway it was then*. (Google Streetview...

Indeed, when I was working part-weeks in Scotland from home in Surrey, I could leave home by car around 05:15, catch a flight departing LHR or LGW around 07:00, land at GLA, EDI or Aberdeen at about 08:15, pick up a hire car and be on site by 09:00 to 09:30. By train I'd have left home around...