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Tweedbank has the highest number expressed in base-16 (Hex) at 978,362

Stafford sponsored by The University of Wolverhampton

I'm sure many of us on here remember being a kid in the 70's and 80's and school was open if the heating worked and the caretaker could clear a path from the road to a way in!

Can anyone figure it out? Image shows a cockpit view of an aerial survey helicopter on railway ops, a section of track can be seen on a screen on the operator's console; https://pdgaviationservices.com/services/aerial-survey

Does force stop / clear data / log back in and try again make any difference?

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Elizabeth Line to Bond Street, Jubilee Line to Wembley Park

Is being under an ongoing cyber attack really a great time to be emailing your entire customer base about it?

I only discovered this recently; Travelodge have a pricefinder tool that lets you browse rates (if available) simply by location using a calendar view without having to make a specific search... https://pricefinder.travelodge.co.uk/

A second passenger ferry service from Penzance to St. Mary's is now scheduled to enter service on 20/08. Operating during high season only, the Atlantic Wolff will sail twice on most weekdays and once on Saturday (when the Scillonian sails twice)... https://scillyferries.co.uk/ Edit: On 01/08...

West facing upper floors of both the Travelodge and Holiday Inn Express at Stockport must have pretty good views of the station and northern approach but I don't think anything "whizzes" through Stockport...

Short article and a few photos of The Captain Flanders in the latest 'spoons News; https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/~/media/files/pdf-documents/wetherspoon-news/wetherspoon-news-springsummer-2024.pdf (page 26)

Hi all, I've updated the Flow Statistics Top 100 search tool with the 2022/2023 dataset; https://railalefan.co.uk/labs/flowstats/ Cheers

The trainline app "Loading your bookings" takes way too long to load now. I joked about it with a LM train manager recently, he joked in reply that he now spends half his shift waiting for the trainline app to show tickets!

When it was announced last year I had a look at the site on streetview and was surprised that Wetherspoon would be interested in a somewhere "so small" as 'spoons go. But yes a welcome addition to the area. £8.85 for a beer and a burger with chips in that neck of the woods when you can only...