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Sankey for Penketh. Actually this one should probably have been Sankey & Penketh as although it may lie within the Sankey ward, Great Sankey is the area directly above the railway lines and Penketh is the area directly below (south of) the railway lines. I guess they weren't contiguous when it...

I agree, there is absolutely nothing funny about people watching pr0n in public places.

Recommend Bose QuietComfort range over AirPods. They seem to fit the ear better.

Spoken like a serial non-headphone wearer who doesn't see the problem.

Without checking the history, isn't it more likely that the Italian community gravitated to where the consulate and/or Chambers of Commerce were chosen to be located? (as happens in many places e.g. a significant German expat community around Beijing's German embassy)

I do mean it, because it means going to a retail park with hideous flat-pack corrugated buildings rather than going to Chester city centre to access certain stores.

St Helens has always been bad. As has Widnes. Wigan and Warrington at least had some life to the town centre - bustling shopping centres, friendly people. Warrington feels the same. The life has been ripped out of the place and the centre given over to Vape stores and barber shops, or boarded...

Newark North Gate and Newark Northgate :lol:

Sheffield-Huddersfield-Manchester Victoria and onwards?

Before his cricket career took off, Phil DeFreitas was particularly accomplished at loading goods trains.

In the opposite direction, there was good reason for someone from Warrington and surrounding towns to want to travel to Sheffield, especially in the 1980s and 90s: Sheffield Wednesday were usually in the top flight. Sheffield United were sometimes in the top flight. (huge football crowds coming...

Like Delamere, it probably gets quite a lot of weekend ramblers. But, yes, it would be a strange terminus.

Sorry, when I said 'outer' I should have written 'easternmost'. It has always seemed a slog to me when doing it, but that's usually with bags.

St Pancras Thameslink is a long walk from Kings Cross outer platforms and this is part of the same station complex (for transfer purposes).

Sure, I am aware that there are good operational reasons for turning trains around at certain places. Still, I lived in the West Midlands for four years and when I saw 'Four Oaks' on a departures board I had no idea where it was. If the train was going to Sutton Coldfield, though, I could...