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Probably a few in Wales. Harlech?

I think for good station pubs to work they have to serve the local people and those awaiting/meeting arriving passengers too, so having a pub on Platform 6 and behind the gateline doesn't really work. There is actually a really good one in Manchester Victoria nowadays which, because it's not...

This is only partially true when referring to things like railway stations or motorway services concessions, which are often a monopoly or oligopoly of overpriced, cr*p places serving people who have no other choice.

The Doric Arch is great and has lovely staff in my experience. Why anyone would want to line Tim Martin's pockets when there are other options is beyond me.

Wrexham General was formerly two stations, General and Exchange spliced together.

Manchester's GDP is £28.2 billion (2021) Liverpool's GDP is £14.2bn The data is from the city's own councils https://www.manchester.gov.uk/news/article/9376/investing_in_success_-_manchesters_new_economic_strategy_unveiled To say, "I certainly would suggest Manchester caters for more people...

We could, in our haste to look at reasons to visit Liverpool, be looking at this the wrong way. Maybe there just isn't as much demand from people in the Liverpool area to travel outwards to other parts of the country, for business and leisure reasons? (except Chester and North Wales, which seem...

The football stadia and the Tate/Albert Dock are at least as popular as the Beatles stuff.

A lot of people on the Wirral will be going to Chester for their connections southbound too (though not northbound).

This was my point about the number of large surrounding towns that would use Manchester to connect for onward travel (whereas Liverpool only really has Birkenhead), just better expressed by you really.

Bolton is on the route of the Manchester trains. The Manchester trains also effectively serve Oldham and Rochdale and many other populous towns indirectly.

The Manchester urban area is more populous than Liverpool's though, and includes Salford, which is 106,074 people (2021 Census Data). It is also more economically active (various measures), has a busier airport, has more major stadia (including Old Trafford cricket ground, whereas Liverpool only...

I used to think similarly but now I think it's cultural and socialised, rather than 'natural'. It's very British and northern European (the Finns are even more obsessed about distance from others than we are). As pointed out before, Meditterraneans and Asians* think we are weird, even hostile...

I was about to say this. The East Asians collectivism/sociability also makes them sit near others in a restaurant, on a train, even remarkably on an otherwise empty beach!

Numbers are simpler and more tourist-friendly. Very easy for a non-native user of English who will already be able to remember and pronounce numbers clearly. Not everything has to be named. In some ways, it makes things that are named a bit less special.

If it was in any way enforceable, the approach of the more serious airlines (e.g. KLM, BA, Finnair) to drinking would be the most sensible one: Tolerance of a few drinks, especially with dinner on a long-haul, but zero tolerance for disruptive alcohol-fuelled behaviour resulting in bans.

That's actually very easy to do and less impressive (or insane, depending on your perspective) than one may think. You simply use a canine tooth to put downward pressure on the top of the cap and done correctly it will pop off without damaging any teeth.

I would say that is a high bar and would exclude many 'major towns'/smaller cities of around 100,000 people. Cheltenham, for example.

I was about to suggest Helsby to Ellesmere Port. There used to be a Warrington to Ellesmere Port mid afternoon. Once I absentmindedly boarded it when travelling Warrington-Chester because I grew up in Warrington and just boarded the multiple unit on Platform 1 without checking, which was always...

I am sure Alton Towers would have plenty of rail traffic if it was anywhere near a station.