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Technically, Farringdon is not a "London Terminal", which is why it's treated slightly differently for passengers wishing to terminate a journey there from National Rail destinations on the Thameslink line. That probably is the (technical) reason the travelcard option - which is perfectly valid...

Either Fort William or Inverness, I'd say. Or both, even, it's easy enough to get from one to the other by coach. Aberdeen is a moderately interesting city, the granite architecture is rather imposing, but it can also be really windswept and bleak in the relatively long winter season. Dundee...

There certainly WAS a bus stop right next to Finstock station, on the X9 Witney - Charlbury - Chippy route. Has it been removed? I do know what you mean about the perils of the road there, though. I think, of rural Oxfordshire halts, that Appleford is even worse (though the road it's on is...

I would have thought that electrifying that short branch-line was a no-brainer: other linking routes further west (linking the Tilbury line with the GOBLIN, and various chords in various parts of North London) were electrified precisely for freight traffic coming off the LT&S. Granted there are...

That would be absolutely fine. To speed things up, be at the front of the train as you arrive at Reading, but even in the unlikely event that your connection were leaving from the northernmost platform island furthest from you (which is extremely unlikely), 15 minutes would be much more than...

This sounds like a nice idea on paper- linking together various services in a relatively compact region that currently have poor connections. But really....who is going to use it, and how can it possibly make any money? I'd love it to succeed, but really can't see how it can.

A ticket from beyond Greater Manchester is unlikely to include the tram. You can either pay for the tram separately, or instead, take the free bus that links the stations, or walk (20 minutes or so, not always well signposted). It would make far more sense for long-distance cross-Manchester...

I tend to think as window views go, you won't get better than a 357 and other similar -stars with similar bodywork (including 170s, then). Properly cinematic.

Yes, looking at the constituency's boundaries on the Ordnance Survey map, I quite agree about Orpington's politics. (I think that famous Liberal vote, as well as being nearly 60 years ago, was a one-off, and there has been a certain amount of demographic change - although perhaps rather less...

I've been caught out (from a split ticketing perspective, at least, or would have been if anyone had checked my tickets) by the odd service on the North Cotswolds line that skips Worcestershire Parkway

It does seem to have got worse recently, but is still a world away from how it was in the late 80s or first half of the 90s.

The current State Treasurer of Alabama has the splendid name of Young Boozer

I think pease pudding and saveloy are largely regionally specific items, at least nowadays, but maybe in the past too. Saveloys are commonly found in chippies in southeast England, whereas I'd associate pease pudding principally with the northeast, maybe not much further south than Teesside

A song that is getting on for being pretty much exactly 40 years old now, "Clouds Across the Moon" by the Rah Band, includes several spoken word sections about an operator being required to (attempt to) connect a phone call. Intergalactically, admittedly, but still something now more or less...

That's only the 94X. The 94 itself (which is almost identical to the route of the N94) runs until after 11 pm on Sundays https://bustimes.org/services/94-gloucester-longlevens-churchdown-benhall-chelte?date=2024-10-20

To get to KXSP, the quicker route will be to change to the Victoria Line at Oxford Circus. And changing to the Jubilee at Bond Street would probably be quicker for London Bridge.

Fairly sure I've heard it on the East Coast of Scotland too, I don't think it is specifically a Glaswegian thing

Limited peak hour services on the Bakerloo through to Watford Junction lasted until late 1982. The rest of the time Queens Park was the usual terminus (Stonebridge Park and then Harrow & Wealdstone came subsequently)

It's been a great success. The only substantive, realistic, change I'd make would be to have made Woolwich station larger and with at least one more exit (as will surely have to happen anyway). Although it was a late inclusion in the project, it should have been foreseen that it would be a very...

The GWR MixingDeck site (https://tickets.gwr.com/gw/en/journeyplanning/mixingdeck) shows the HX at 23:42 as running on 12 October (I searched for a single ticket from Heathrow T5 to Rayleigh).