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Story I heard from a Lift engineer thought entertaining enough to repeat. He was called to fix a lift at Cambridge University that had become stuck and after a bit of time was able to restart the lift and free those trapped inside. When the doors open, out rolls Stephen Hawkins who unleashes a...

Wondering if this is actually dual gage track.

There might have been a need for a crane to get it on the road trailer......

The irony of all this and is my experience for Exeter and Southampton where I have lived is that the stations within those cities are not much used for intra city transport due to relatively low frequency, cost and station location relative to what the buses can do. But basically function as...

As someone who grew up in Exmouth, I always considered it "Outer Exeter"

That was a lot of posts and no one has been able to decide if Topsham is in Exeter or not. In fact most people seem to have forgotten it!

If you are starting at Penzance I would have thought your target end point would be Exeter, as that is the closest end point you can get to the start by an alternative route, Unless finishing way up in Scotland if preferable.

There are the proposals (Devon County Council?) for an Exmouth North station. I thought that was a strange idea as the way Exmouth spreads out north and east from the coast/river and the rail line skirts around west by the river were there are no housing it would not make much sense exerting...

I used to commute to the university from Exmouth (in Devonshire "X-mooth") a few years ago. St James Park was a convenient stop for the university. It was a bit longer than central but way less hill to walk up. I am not sure that 20 mins would be worth the investment necessary unless all it took...

This is about if drivers need route knowledge. It is assumed they still have traction knowledge (how this particular type of train requires to be driven) and operational knowledge (rules of the railway) we are discussing are these two sufficient with some other system to provide information on...

Thank you for any advice in advance. I am traveling back to the UK after along absence with my children. I will be staying with my brother in Oxford (Kidlington) for a few days and want to take 2 adults and 3 children (11, 8, 6) into London to do "tourist stuff" on a Monday so was trying to...

I was coming to Iowa, USA from London, a few years ago and was deciding where to fly in, as I could get picked up from different locations. Minneapolis and Chicago were similar distances to drive. The cheapest flight to Chicago was a connection in Minneapolis and the cheapest flight to...

Your alternative is the media frenzy they have in my current home of the US. In the uk you are not limited to what you can say just when you can say it.

Being old enough to remember the IRA campaigns, the IRA liked hiding bombs before calling in warnings, causing disruption while everything was searched. Bins were removed to reduce the number of hiding places available to terrorist. Their aim was not necessarily destruction but inconvenience...

How would i be treated if i had the wrong ticket and it was only 10p different by a rail company. This goes both ways.