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Like many of us, I've had a few over the years, but one this afternoon really piqued my interest. I'd been out and, returning home to settle on my sofa with a cup of tea, I opened a book on London buses. The first two photographs I came across were of buses on the 365 and 607 bus routes...

I hope this is the appropriate place to post this. My sister-in-law has a ticket booked with Cross Country for this journey, out this Saturday and return the following Wednesday. She deliberately waited to ensure no strikes were planned, only now to find ASLEF has banned overtime work all this...

I know the Hither Green train crash has been discussed in the past, but just a reminder that tonight is the 55th anniversary of the tragedy, and I for one will be thinking of all the people caught up in it, and their families.

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/fraud-by-avanti.238352/ How anyone without a vested interest can argue that railways aren't brought back into public ownership asap is completely beyond my comprehension.

Received an email timed at 20.31 today supposedly from DWP:- I can see how many could succumb to this, and that might have included myself if I hadn't been fairly certain I wasn't entitled to this genuine support payment. This was confirmed after a google, which also made clear from the...

Some may recall I was seeking advice for a nineteen year old female autistic friend about to travel from Penzance to Seaford. She is still travelling between the same towns, but her friend has now arranged to meet her in Lewes. She has also decided to avoid travel via Central London, and her...

Writing this on behalf of an autistic friend aged 19, almost 'family', who is undertaking this trip in July, by train. I'm only seeking advice on her behalf on certain aspects of this journey, which is a daunting one for her, but she is determined to make it. First of all, what is...

On a lamentable day which may go down in history as heralding the start of World War 3, time perhaps to reflect on the death of Dr Edmund Percival James in Cornwall earlier this month. His Death Notice in local newspapers included the sentence ''Retired Medical Practitioner and last known...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #20 originally in this thread. In a G.B. context, the Death Penalty was suspended in 1965 and abolished in 1969, The catalyst for this was the campaigning of the Labour backbench MP for Nelson and Colne Sydney Silverman, a Liverpudlian who had the ear of Huyton's MP Harold...

I thought that, with all that's going on both in this country and around the world with Covid-19, it might be forgotten that four separate acts of terrorism were visited upon the people of London and its public transport system on that terrible day of 7/7/2005. I only remembered it was the...

I really think Tom Moore deserves a special mention today on the occasion of his 100th birthday - what a spirited character! I read he was given an England cricket cap this morning to add to his cards and tributes - it couldn't really be a presentation, but I hope it meant something to him. May...

When I was a lad in the 1950s, the two foot tunnels under the Thames were from Woolwich to North Woolwich and Greenwich to North Greenwich respectively. Yes, North Greenwich was on the Isle of Dogs but the exit of the tunnel was in North Greenwich, from which you got a stupendous view over the...

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has been elected as leader of the Labour Party, and bearing in mind his former position as Director of Public Prosecutions, is it not time to consider a National Government as previously happened during the two World Wars plus during the Great Depression of the early...

It 's become increasingly difficult to spot the hoaxes in amongst the supposedly true stuff, and this year probably almost impossible, in addition to which there's probably little appetite for it, but a chance here to post any you see that might pass the test. I'll only say that if you see...

Does anyone know whether the planned new helicopter service from Penzance to the Isles of Scilly, due to commence tomorrow from the new heliport in Jelbert's Way, is actually going ahead? There's a remarkable lack of recent news on their website, or that of the heliport, and I've not heard a...

In my immediate area, people were saddened to learn of the sudden death of a well-regarded shopkeeper, who went home last Friday and, shortly after, was found in her flat on her bed apparently dead having choked on something. Her heart was restarted after a time, and the two ambulance crews...

No prizes for guessing why this thread has been created. Went into local WHSmith last week seeking new Buses mag, wasn't yet in and, after browsing, decided to buy 'On the Buses vol 3' published by Vintage Roadscene Archive. The first section featured photos taken in Sudbury, Suffolk, on Market...

I was hoping someone more computer literate would open this new thread, in view of this Go-Ahead subsidiary winning substantial new contracts from Cornwall Council which take effect from 29th March. As it appears to be going to be run entirely separately from Plymouth Citybus in future, it would...

A few Saturdays ago someone who'd been a lorry driver in the 1990s expressed his thanks on a radio programme to an unknown tram driver in Minsk at that time. The driver had dropped his trailer somewhere and had to pick up another in Minsk, a city with which he was unfamiliar. It being...

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