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Bryan Adams - Everything I Do I Do It For You Shakespear’s Sister - Stay The Cranberries - Linger

I was going to put it in with the main text, but thought of putting it as a spoiler to protect the clues in case the answer comes up again at a future date.

Continuing with the theme of trains but maybe pushing the definition a bit, I would give an honourable mention to the original Thomas The Tank Engine theme when remixed with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Another thing to point out upon completing yesterday’s Tuble. The game suggests that Goldhawk Road is 14 stops away from Parsons Green (the answer), when in fact it is only 7 (or 8 if you consider Hammersmith to be two separate stations with the OSI between the Circle/Hammersmith and...

We already have 3 music related threads on the go, but here’s another one for fun. Are there any songs that remind you of a specific place, or bring back a good memory on the railway? These don’t necessarily have to be songs about railways or trains. For example, the 1997 song Ready To Go by...

Fat Les - Vindaloo

And Nile Rodgers too. In fact I’d say anything featuring him would get my vote. Nothing more uplifting than one of his many funky guitar riffs!

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Possible trivia questions relating to this topic could be: Most used stations on the strike days Biggest difference between passenger numbers at a station on strike days compared to normal operating days* Stations with higher patronage on strike days than normal operating days* Stations with no...

Is any data being collected on passenger numbers over the strike days? If so, it would be trivia in itself to find comparisons between those and usual daily figures.

And Bournemouth too!

How about stations which have a better service on strike days than during a normal weekday?

And yet people fly from London to New York via Amsterdam all the time!

I probably should have explained clearer, but I would argue that Portsmouth - Ryde and Portsmouth - Fishbourne are part of the same route that just serve different markets. Fishbourne is just a convenient place for vehicular traffic to load/unload, but I imagine a proportion of its traffic is...

This is why even when HS2 is fully operational from London to Manchester, there still needs to be direct Manchester - South coast/South West trains on the classic lines, even if they become slower by having more stops added. But of course if there was a short link from the Curzon Street HS2...