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I know this has been promoted as Drakeford's personal crusade, but can we stop with the personal attacks? (not just you, others too) If it was such a bad idea, it would only have taken a few rebels in the Senedd to prevent the bill going through. And at the risk of making this more political...

I think it's likely that people from the eastern side of "Merthyr" - that is Dowlais Top and such - travelling to central Cardiff would rather travel from Rhymney station than from Merthyr simply due to ease of access (and 4tph instead of 2), particularly once the works on the Heads of the...

I'm not sure that adds up, even if I'm right to assume you mean individual vehicles rather than "trains", and ignoring those trains that have unpowered vehicles. 750MWh divided by 5000 vehicles is 150kWh per vehicle. Elsewhere it looks as if a typical DMU uses about 10 times the amount of...

Two points immediately spring to mind, the biggest of which is "planning". Converting a contaminated (lots of remediation work to remove the old tanks and clean up the ground required) site to residential use is both fraught with planning potholes and quite a costly undertaking and I think you...

I don't know how familiar people on Railforums are with the wonderful XKCD, but I offer here this little nugget from the pen of Randall Munroe: If you go to the page where the image is posted, there is usually some mouseover text which is relevant too.

With my commute now being nearly all in darkness, I've noticed a glut of cars and small vans with "dazzling" headlights. Don't get me started on "white-white" or "blue-white" lights, but I'm most annoyed by the ones which dazzle you, however far away they are, behind or in front. It is not - as...

The warehouses alongside that canal were on East Canal Wharf - the street where Jacobs Antiques is (I assume it's still there?). I used to work in one of the warehouses, converted in the 1980s into a radio station and then flattened for the road improvements. No canal even in the 1980s but the...

Of course, not all that long ago, what we know today as Dumballs Road was actually a railway. See if you can spot it in this image from the National Museum of Wales archive. And here's the lower end of Bute Street with what is now Cardiff Bay station quite recognisable (link) There are loads...

In the UK, in the midlands in fact. Yes, I was surprised too!

Perhaps I'm generalising, but my own gut feeling seems to agree with many of the posters above. Many houses have been built with garages too small to fit most modern cars. Mother-in-law's was an odd exception; the garage could just squeeze in a smallish modern car, but the driveway alongside the...

Or a holiday let. Access is the big issue - it looks pretty impossible - but some strange places make some very lucrative holiday lets.

I don't think speed cameras (with the possible exception of average speed cameras) will change that sort of behaviour. I see an awful lot of (for example) driving at 50mph+ in a 40 zone, spotting the speed camera, throwing out the anchor and reducing to 30mph, sometimes even slower (it's almost...

I have absolutely no idea how common their installation is, but the first time I noticed them - and wondered if someone was planning on running a miniature railway - was at the bay platform in Pontypridd. You can (just about) see them in this Google Maps link, in this photograph from Geograph...

Earthing is a complex thing. It's not so much that you don't have an earth if you self-power and cut off from the grid, it's that you might have "stray" earths. In theory, if your uninterruptible supply is not actually connected to the earth then you are at very little risk of an electric shock...

Or it could be that rather than fresh-off-the-tree, they've been stored a while. Russet is my dad's favourite and I always got the impression that they don't store terribly well. Could I point you perhaps at James White Single Variety Apple Juices? The downside is that you have to buy them in...

Thanks for all the suggestions - I quite deliberately made some daft comments (I know no right-minded manufacturer would consider a manual gearbox in an electric car) so well done everyone for not chewing my head off. I do still have some "range anxiety", I wouldn't touch a Tesla with a...

I do 20,000+, mainly on a commute and have always driven a smallish car for this purpose - albeit a Diesel with a fairly long 5th gear. I'd be happy to go to electric now that they are finally beginning to have enough range for my use* but leasing or PCP options at 24,000 miles (to be on the...

I was misremembering - I said caramel, meant butterscotch. Absolutely correct. And for some reason it's one of the few flavours still available. The current recipe isn't as full of odd chemicals as the 1970s recipe - it's basically cornflour, emulsifier and flavouring (he says, without a packet...

Known in our house as "squashed fly biscuits" (rather than the more traditional fruited shortbreads or Garibaldi) owing to having once found one that took that name too literally. My mum got a free selection tin and £10 (IIRC) worth of vouchers for that - in the late 1970s - so we were kept in...

Can I just say drinks with no sweeteners in general? I note the names above but would like to add Ribena, which not only tastes dreadful with sweetener but (the cordial) goes off much, much more quickly in the bottle. Obviously the sugar tax is the culprit and Ribena's audience probably wouldn't...