From The National


I know some of these lochs as fresh water ones - are the all fresh water?? And yet the ferries to be named are all to sail on salt water.    Would not naming them after salt water lochs be more appropriate?

Imagine the express trains for Paddington to the South West being named after rivers in East Anglia.

 
After the hint, No 2 is Masbury. The picture looks like a postcard and one can only guess at the 1950's.

 
According to RTT, 1W25 1252 Paddington to Foregate Street today has 18 cars.  Formed of two 9-car units, 802112 and 802113

 
Going back to 9, that building looks just like the survivor at the eastern end of Stroud station - and long may that continue as an example of Brunel's work.

 
Cancellations to services between Par and Plymouth
Due to a points failure at Plymouth the line is blocked. Disruption is expected until 15:45 03/12.
Train services between Par and Plymouth may be cancelled or delayed.
Customer Advice
Train services running between Plymouth and the Cornwall are being severely delayed due to a points failure west of Plymouth Station. Engineers from Network Rail are attending, but the fix is likely to take some time. We are currently looking at how best to support customers currently affected, but customers intending to travel may wish to postpone their plans if they are able to.
(Issued 1407 today)

No Gunnislake branch running currently.
2P10 1129 Truro to Plymouth stuck at Albert Road since 1247.
2P13 1229 Truro to Plymouth stuck at Liskeard since 1317.

Liskeard to Looe branch also shut - flooding.

5Z61 1236 Plymouth to Liskeard (175009) parked Up Lostwithiel goods loop

 

Winter-time.  To judge from the salt that's been broadcast on the stairs and platform

 

That sign is for a little park homes estate up there. The driver has done quite well to get in and turn round again, since the roads are very narrow and steep. That entry was by the shallow angle turn off; exiting via the sharp turn looks as if it was never on. The real question is of course "why?"

 

I've seen it on here, probably in another quiz or maybe just 'cos it's Melksham.

Its date? later than you'd guess at first sight. That railway layout was largely the same from the late 1800s (the footbridge the photo was taken off was a bit later) to the 1960s. But the vehicles in the yard at the back are right for about 1960. So late 50s  seems likely.

 
From the BBC:

 
6.  Denton station, near Manchester.

It hasn't changed much, over the years, but I'm struggling with a possible date for a black and white photo of it.

A wild guess, therefore: 1970?

 
I think Google streetview shows the bus is actually on (or just coming off) a side road:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/mLaus6bfQRBEAf8P8

 
It looks like Class 99s are being imported at Portbury - this YouTube vid shows a couple of them coming down the line towards Parson Street:

https://youtu.be/18YvL103CRo?si=fU8uQ4qIy-Yid6Pl

 
I did wonder about ice - but it wasn't that cold here in Bristol overnight. Maybe the bus stopped on the hill, then slid backwards on any ice?


They seem as puzzled as anyone.

 
I was wondering whether it had oversteered on some ice, but if it did it must have been going at a fair rate of knots to end up like that.

 
Well At least they have their own recovery company according to the side of the bus 

 
Yes, I wondered, too: that's rather why I posted the item. 

 
No doubt it is stuck, but how on earth did it get into that position?

 
Ha - I was going to post that Google Lens was a good way to identify the locations in these photos (after they'd all been identified). But in fact Lens first told me (confidently) it was Alveston, then Google AI told me it was Bilston Central To be fair, I didn't recognise it either, despite having passed through it this morning - it's definitely changed

A slightly larger version of that photo appears here http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/oldpics2.html which might have been where you saw it.

 
From the BBC:

 
I've seen picture 9 before. I guess there are only so many old photos of Melksham available.

 
Beat me to it!

 
Gobsmacked that the cost of the project has risen from £25M to £500M - twentyfold - whilst the politicos have been faffing around without getting started.

No wonder everything (except being sent to chokey for social media posts) takes so long and costs so much

 
1. Chirk chipboard factory, or if it's not there then somewhere in Scotland at the other end of the route, where the timber is loaded.
Date - I guess 1975 judging by the man's clothing and hairstyle.

 
My favourite restaurant, the Beetle & Wedge at Moulsford (where there was once a ferry across the Thames) had a makeover several years ago, with its car-park rejigged and spaces re-delineated.  Trouble is that they're designed for traditional cars.  In the summer a friend drove me there in her Jaguar SUV and despite all the beeping gizmos to help had trouble parking it.  When we got out, the front was six inches from a wall, with two feet of its back outside the marked space.

I suspect that some visitors park in the nearby cul de sac, no doubt causing chagrin to the residents.  When I drive there in my Vauxhall Corsa I leave it in the village car park several hundred yards away - less challenging for me.

When my friend arrived at my house for the first time in the Jag she noticed the look of disapproval on my face.  She's complained of having to squeeze it into the hedge in the lanes close to her house when she meets oncoming traffic.  Dunno why she needs such a large car, as most of the time she's the only occupant.

 

But surely if the speed limit is lowered, journeys take longer and the number of passengers on the busway at any one time will be maintained?


It took Sheffield from 1960 until 1994 to loose and regain their trams.   It took Galashiels from 1969 to 2015 to regain its trains.   St Ives (Cambs) station didn't close until 1970 ... it may be a few years yet. If the trains were to return to what is now the busway up to St Ives, a continuation to Huntingdon and the onwards towards Beford might solve several issues ... just sayin ... must hold on to that idea until 1st April 2026

 

St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay, in Ramsgate.

 
3: Melrose station on the Borders Railway between closure and lifting in the early 1970s and the building of the current bypass in 1987.