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BBC Look North tonight (Yorks & Lincs) showed footage of construction of a temporary access road by cutting away the verges of a bridle path and filling in a ditch.

Thanks! That makes sense as I lived near Richmond Park but walked all over the area in the summer evenings. Film was expensive in them days so I didn't take many photos, to my regret...

I lived in South London for a short time in 1985 and have recently found the attached photograph from that time. Can anyone identify where it was taken as I have no idea! Thanks in advance, Karl

Interesting! I would have thought that was quite a rare thing to do, but maybe I'm wrong... Does anyone know of any other locations where a pax service has to reverse NOT in a station?

Thanks for your quick response! Does that mean that the driver has to change ends? I presume by walking through the train as there's no platform nearby?

I was sorting out a route home for my son the other day and I noticed that the last of the day's East Midlands Trains services from Nottingham to Lincoln (departing Nottingham at 22:26) is timetabled to call at both Newark Castle (22:57) AND Newark Northgate (23:09). How does it manage this? The...

Just two evenings ago I'd been trying to work out how the tracks into the now demolished Linocln St. Marks station and the old Lincoln avoiding line mapped onto today's street plan. (Don't ask why, I'm just interested in these things!). Anyway, lots of time comparing oblique aerial photos with...

True story about hi-vis jackets... A few winters ago I went on a training course at Bournemouth Airport to learn how to drive and use de-icing trucks for aircraft. Being unfamiliar with reversing big trucks some of us wanted to get some more practice in during the evening so we asked the...