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Cafe on Platform 6 Crewe
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This is only partially true when referring to things like railway stations or motorway services concessions, which are often a monopoly...
Yesterday at 15:33
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Euston new weatherspoons
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The Doric Arch is great and has lovely staff in my experience. Why anyone would want to line Tim Martin's pockets when there are other...
2 Apr 2024
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[Trivia] How many stations? And when does one station become two?
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Wrexham General was formerly two stations, General and Exchange spliced together.
28 Feb 2024
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Should there be more Liverpool to Scotland services?
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Manchester's GDP is £28.2 billion (2021) Liverpool's GDP is £14.2bn The data is from the city's own councils...
28 Feb 2024
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Should there be more Liverpool to Scotland services?
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We could, in our haste to look at reasons to visit Liverpool, be looking at this the wrong way. Maybe there just isn't as much demand...
27 Feb 2024
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Should there be more Liverpool to Scotland services?
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The football stadia and the Tate/Albert Dock are at least as popular as the Beatles stuff.
24 Feb 2024
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Should there be more Liverpool to Scotland services?
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A lot of people on the Wirral will be going to Chester for their connections southbound too (though not northbound).
21 Feb 2024
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BeijingDave
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Should there be more Liverpool to Scotland services?
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This was my point about the number of large surrounding towns that would use Manchester to connect for onward travel (whereas Liverpool...
21 Feb 2024
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Should there be more Liverpool to Scotland services?
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Bolton is on the route of the Manchester trains. The Manchester trains also effectively serve Oldham and Rochdale and many other...
21 Feb 2024
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Should there be more Liverpool to Scotland services?
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The Manchester urban area is more populous than Liverpool's though, and includes Salford, which is 106,074 people (2021 Census Data). It...
21 Feb 2024
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Sitting with a person when a train is empty
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I used to think similarly but now I think it's cultural and socialised, rather than 'natural'. It's very British and northern European...
18 Feb 2024
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Sitting with a person when a train is empty
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I was about to say this. The East Asians collectivism/sociability also makes them sit near others in a restaurant, on a train, even...
17 Feb 2024
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London Overground line names announced
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Numbers are simpler and more tourist-friendly. Very easy for a non-native user of English who will already be able to remember and...
15 Feb 2024
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Scotrail’s alcohol ban - pointless?
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If it was in any way enforceable, the approach of the more serious airlines (e.g. KLM, BA, Finnair) to drinking would be the most...
14 Feb 2024
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Scotrail’s alcohol ban - pointless?
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That's actually very easy to do and less impressive (or insane, depending on your perspective) than one may think. You simply use a...
12 Feb 2024
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