Recent content by Old Yard Dog

Don’t know as I joined the TfW train at Chester. But in a joined up railway, letting the TFW train go first would have inconvenienced far few passengers. But some jobsworth decided otherwise, perhaps because he lacked the authority to see the bigger picture. I have had serious problems in the...

The 1240 WMT Shrewsbury to Birmingham NS was allowed out before the delayed 1234 Holyhead to Birmingham International even though the latter could easily have got away at 1242. This is causing big consequential delays to the latter with missed connections and it is now terminating at New Street...

A quick question: are e- and mobile tickets bought online from one TOC valid on trains operated by another? Specifically we are planning a crawl between multiple pubs between Shrewsbury & Wolverhampton so want to know if an off peak day return bought online from West Midlands trains would be...

I wish Lancashire would build a proper stand instead of that cramped temporary monstrosity (stand D) which looks worryingly flimsy to me. Presumably its there so they can remove it to make space for pop concert stages. But surely there would be room for the "turns" at the opposite Brian...

I remember discussing one of our last NLN derbies, a 1-1 draw, with Adrian Goldberg on Radio 5. I had phoned in as I had just seen a meteor flying over the M56 near Runcorn, as you do, but the conversation soon turned to football. Good luck to Town in the play-off. I spent many a, mostly...

Yet another series of draws in D2. Why is the County Championship, the only domestic cricket which counts, being played in early April just to accommodate cretin cricket in the summer? The sport is run by barmpots who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. And why are some...

Given the likely crowds for the Barnet & Ebbsfleet games, Halifax could have played on our 3G pitch at Horsfall which is just 4 or so miles from the Shay. They have been there for derbies in National League North & the FA Trophy in recent years.

Sounds reasonable to me. Everton were fined 6 pts for breaches over 3 years, so 2 more pts for the 4th year seems pro rata.

Its quite interesting that the Search facilities on BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My 5, UKTV Play and Freeview all seem to use different letter layouts, some much faster than others.

The new toilets at Liverpool Central are suffering from teething problems (see other thread under Infrastructure & Stations) while those at Moorfields (the old ones at least) are also often closed and even when not, require staff to open them. The toilets on the main Lime Street concourse are...

Bradford 2 Radcliffe 3 2-0 and we ++++ it up yet again, for the second time in three days. That’s now 34 pts lost from winning positions (plus 3 more for an expunged win) leaving us with just 26 from 37 games. Yes a number of our better players have suffered season-ending injuries but its still...

Yes. There was a lady putting up barriers when I arrived and the kind gentleman on the gate said they had just "broken".

Ilkeston 2 Bradford 2. 2-0 and we ++++ it up yet again, their second straight from a corner. That’s 31 pts lost from winning positions (plus 3 more for an expunged win). We’re all but doomed and parks league football against the likes of Liversedge and Brighouse, and possibly even Campion...

The new swanky toilets at Central didn’t last long. They were closed out of order at 2150 tonight and I almost missed my train making an emergency dash to KFC. Having a few beers before travelling with ME is hard work.

Having been playing bridge on Tuesday night, I decided to avoid finding out the score so I could watch the highlights of Wales v Poland on BBC Wales with uncertainty as to the outcome. However the tension was completely ruined by the continuity annoucer who said "And now for the highlights...