Recent content by Ianigsy

Indeed, one of the reasons why Metrolink succeeded and Leeds is still trying to get off the ground 30 years later is that from the start, Metrolink had the buy-in of neighbouring councils because the likes of Bury and Trafford also got something out of it. The PTE system works against a city...

Not quite - the Unionists’ red line was a border in the Irish Sea (isolating NI from Great Britain and bringing it closer to the Republic) and the Nationalists’ red line was a hard border on the island of Ireland. Add to that the tendency of some individuals to make things go bang when they...

My old form master taught Maths and had a VW Beetle with the plate LCM1.

Nah, Big Ger Cafferty gets stuff done.

It’s probably a case of doing the necessary leg work to prove that it’s the case before going cap in hand to the relevant authorities. I wonder how long they can go on calling it Bradford Interchange, though, if there’s nothing to interchange with once you get off the train!

I wonder whether people have tried to circumvent the system by buying open tickets with a reservation for whatever train was available, whether it was 5 in the morning or 11 at night, and then taking their chances.

I think what aggrieves people is that you pay for a ten year passport and then find it’s actually got nearer to nine years’ usage on it. It’s also one of those areas where a government with its head screwed on would have anticipated how it would play with Middle England and negotiated a way...

I’m fairly sure you realise that I meant anybody involved with the match. The nearest possible venue for the final is Brackley, roughly halfway between London and Birmingham.

Tube strike- they’ve swapped the day with the National League North promotion final, which happens at a club ground so there shouldn’t be any need for anybody to go anywhere near London.

Part of the problem is that it would mean disabling the e-ticket option on any open ticket which could possibly be used between Liverpool South Parkway and Central or Moorfields on the Northern Line.

Day Savers are less than the price of a point to point return from my parents’ local station in Birkenhead to West Kirby, but more than a return to New Brighton. When Northern had their last flash sale, I used one in conjunction with a Leeds-Chester £1 single to go over to Birkenhead for about...

Private schools tend to have shorter terms than state ones, probably a hangover from when most of them were boarding schools and the pupils had to travel home at the end of term. You wouldn’t have thought that Princess of Wales was a particularly hazardous occupation, but the last one to become...

And I think this is where the heart of the matter lies. The Treasury mentality is to tell departments “this is how much you can have” rather than going out and proactively finding the money to do things. Ministers don’t generally have the time or the inclination to look critically at the...

On a similar note, I remember reading about a British embassy in a country where contraception was frowned upon, which decided to promote safe sex by having a free supply of condoms in the toilets for both sexes. The ambassador was shocked when somebody at the Foreign Office took him up on...

In theory, it ought to be possible to do the following: Merseyrail or TfW Liverpool-Chester TfW Chester-Hereford GWR Hereford-Worcester