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The basic problems seem to be the very high cost of modifying the main line network or operating anything different on it (which has applied, sadly, to our whole industry since privatisation) and specifically the failure to include recommissioning the bay platform at Wareham in the scheme. If a...

Sunny Wood Halt

Llancaiach

That would be Risca's first station, the second (Risca & Pontymister), about half a mile east of the original, being still open. Tynycwm Halt

Bushmills is very well known as the home of a famous whiskey distillery. A more recent addition to the list of settlements hosting such distilleries is Crolly (Croithlí in Irish Gaelic) , Co Donegal.

Edington & Bratton

Egloskerry

then Grogley Halt

I think Dunmere Halt came first

Yes. Hence why our island is called "Great" Britain. It is supposed to have been to distinguish it from "Little" Britain - i.e. Brittany, where according to some historians many of the Celtic peoples fled during the years of increasing Saxon domination of southern England. (The Danes came a...

For a reasonably topical link - Alan Bates, the leading campaigner for justice for sub-postmasters in the "Horizon" scandal, was born in Liverpool. However he was from 1998 until 2003, when his appointment was terminated without explanation, sub-postmaster at Craig-y-Don, Llandudno, Conwy.

Palnure

Balchriston Level Crossing Halt

The monks of Hermitage used the "Lady's Well" near the village. There is a well of the same name in the village of Holystone, Northumberland, also used by Augustinians but in this case canonesses, making the name even more appropriate.

I've walked some of this bit. Greenway Halt

Much Wenlock

Scarborough's two park and ride sites are at Osgodby and on the road to Seamer, North Yorkshire.

Huddersfield boasts a statue of a former Prime Minister - Harold Wilson. I am sure Grantham is equally proud of its statue of Margaret Thatcher.

Dolgellau

I think we have accidentally reversed direction and taken a wrong turn. From I believe the next station would be: Inches