Recent content by Gathursty

The current LNER service to Harrogate goes to Leeds then Horsforth and on to Harrogate. There is also a route from York to Harrogate via Knaresborough. There is more population via Leeds and Horsforth but the route is more direct via York and doesn't require a reversal at Leeds. However York...

I dip into this quiz less and less so would agree that the quiz has run its course. I just had to get yours because you said not near Thetford or Wellington (Salop) but near Pontefract and Pembrey. Most puzzling!

St Austell?

Is this station in Ireland?

If there are Northern staff at Blackpool who do not like the routes they have, they should put in a request to move to other depots rather than demanding preferred routes be given to them. Local news might have a field day with this so they should be mindful how far to push this demand.

I'd hope Blackpool drivers concern themselves with what they already have and not a journey that is clearly on Blackburn's patch.

Just wondering if a ticket for London Liverpool Street might be more advantageous in time and money than Shoreditch High Street. Have to wait for OP to respond though as to how close their destination is to both. Ignore Bethnal Green suggestion. Further than I remember.

Isn't Shoreditch High Street a short walk round the back of Liverpool St Station?

I named myself after Gathurst. There are other members who have a station in their user name (abbreviated or full name). How many stations have we got on this forum by user name? How far off are we having a named member for each station?

My most memorable Wetherspoons for distinctiveness are: The Corryvreckan - Oban The Old Chapel - Darwen The Royal Hop Pole - Tewkesbury

I think it is still worth asking residents of Okehampton/Tavistock if they would visit vice versa more often if a rail link was built. Us lot on this forum certainly do not represent those two towns and neither does Westminster nor people who come up with cost-benefit ratios.

We really do need someone with a clipboard to go to Okehampton and ask residents how often they go to Tavistock and Plymouth and if it would increase if there was a direct rail link and the same question in Tavistock about Okehampton, Crediton and Exeter.

Good luck! Some tips: Pack a toothbrush and toothpaste. Use the showers at Fort William station. Culrain, Commondale, Ribblehead, Clapham (N Yorks), Arrochar & Tarbet, Foxfield, Dolau have proper waiting rooms you can sleep in with a bag if you really have to. Might be some more off the top of...

Pontefract Tanshelf?