Trowbridge - Platform 1

14: Keyham

For interest, this location has featured in the Bath Chronicle over recent days.

The original story related to the increased usage during the recent spell of hot weather as people used the crossing to access Warleigh Weir on the River Avon, with many leaving with less belongings than they arrived with, it would sadly appear.

http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/network-rail-confirms-ferry-lane-129361

RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website) indicates 48 minutes late departing Paddington.

High Speed Rail: Is It Worth It?  - ITV1

1930hrs Thursday 10 November (30 mins)

With the government set to give the go-ahead to the biggest infrastructure scheme in a generation, who will benefit from a rail project that could cost more than 56 billion pounds? Will it solve a commuting crisis - or destroy communities? Jonathan Maitland investigates.

The Trouble With Our Trains - BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) 1 - Panorama Programme (30 mins)

Monday 7 November 2016 - 1930hrs (transmitted later same evening in Scotland & Wales)

An investigation into the disconnect between the claims of the government and rail industry - which maintain that Britain's railways are a success - and the experience of many passengers who feel train services are unreliable, overcrowded and cost far too much money. What will it take to close that gap?

7.  IMERYS Yard, Goonbarrow (between Par and Newquay)

OK I'll own up - I accidentally skipped to the "next up" video on YouTube, so mistakenly watched one of Grahame's bus trips instead - wondered why I was out of kilter on the answers  (but proving it's perhaps possible to be both wrong and right at the same time!)

Tough Trains - Travel Channel - Freeview 42; FreeSat 150; Sky 249/251; Virgin 292

Starting today: Wednesdays at 2200hrs - Weekly Series of 5 programmes.  One hour each.

Episode 1 Wednesday 17 August: BOLIVIA
In Bolivia, Zay Harding travels along the railways from the Brazilian Pantanal tropical wetlands to the Chilean coast.

Episode 2 Wednesday 24 August: RUSSIA'S ICE TRAINS
The far north of Siberia, deep inside the Arctic Circle, on the world's most northerly railway lines.

Episode 3 Wednesday 31 August: VIETNAM: THE REUNIFICATION EXPRESS
Starting his journey in the north of Vietnam, Zay Harding discovers that the railway has played a vital role in the recent history of the country.

Episode 4 Wednesday 7 September: INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE RAILROADS
An epic journey across one of the world's biggest railway networks.

Episode 5 Wednesday 14 September: CUBA^▸ (Counties that Used to Be Avon)
An eye-opening and hair-raising train journey across the Caribbean island of Cuba.

Which was precisely my point! And Grahame's too.

I'll concede if you've never watched QI, you wouldn't know the buzzer (I've since thought it's actually a klaxon) is sounded for an answer that might at first seem obvious and correct, but often incorrect due to a little known fact, common misconception or technicality.

Passing through the picturesque village of Lacock at about 1m:30s to 2m:10s

Gunnislake gets the "QI buzzer" 

Mon 11 July 2016 - 0910

Talking Pictures Channel (Freeview 81 / Sky 343 / Freesat 306)

BFI: Fully Fitted Freight - 1957

The story of the fast freight, Bristol-Leeds, vacuum braked throughout.
Conveyed in crisp black & white images by veteran cinematographer Ronald Craigen.
(25 mins)

8. Trefforest Estate

Prompted more than a bit with the answer to bottom RH picture, I think I spy a slag-heap in the background of the bottom LH picture. If so, possibly not far away from the same location somewhere in the Somerset coalfield, but beyond that guess, no idea!