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It sounds counter-intuitive, but it might be worth checking out London City. The check-in is quick and the transfer from Waterloo via the Jubilee and DLR is quite quick and more importantly, is frequent and reliable. The Woking to LHR buses are at the mercy of M25 traffic as well as not very...

If the FR and WHR timetables don't suit your plans, there are relatively frequent local bus services from Porthmadog to Caernarfon and then to Bangor, plus the Trawscymru T2 direct bus.

If the So'ton to Edinburgh flight times suit, that would be my choice too. But there's no need to arrive 2 hours ahead for a domestic flight at Gatwick. I flew from LHR or LGW to EDI or GLA for work most weeks for several years, and aimed to get to the airport around an hour before departure...

I'm not sure, I'll have to check next time it comes on!

Talerddig on the Cambrian would be another candidate for such an announcement. IIRC I've heard guards say something similar while waiting there, but I don't think I've heard a prerecorded version used.

Actually I quite like that one, as I try to spot places I've visited. Two that I remember are the Flatiron building in New York and Multnomah Falls in Oregon. It would be easier if I slowed it down, but that's cheating!

Sadly that's not unusual in rural areas - indeed one of my cousins had a horse killed in a collision with a car after it had escaped its paddock. But the locations of today's incidents would certainly make them noteworthy.

AKA Mollibahn, featuring street running through the middle of the town of Bad Doberan. Quite a sight, and maybe the only remaining such working (with steam) in Europe?

A diesel generator built into one of the coaches? I don't have any knowledge of this set, but at least one of the Riviera Trains MK1 sets included such a vehicle.

Polystyrene blocks have been used in road embankments too, where fuel spillage is a more likely event. The main risk mitigation is to wrap the polystyrene in an impermeable membrane to protect it from spills. I've never heard a report of such an embankment failing. I very much doubt any has...

I suspect that gradient profiles are really an idealised version of a more complicated situation on the ground. All the profiles I've ever seen show straight lines between angular change-of-grade points. Even if a line could be built like that, it would be most uncomfortable to travel over. In...

Assuming it's the same company, Fortress at one time owned the Florida East Coast railway. That was sold to new owners, but Fortress appears still to own Brightline, the only private high speed passenger railway in the USA, which operates between Miami and Orlando. That runs on new or upgraded...

In last night's episode he visited a business extracting salt from seawater on Anglesey, and it was mentioned that he'd visited it in an earlier incarnation (as an aquarium iirc) in one of his earlier series.

Well, the ETCS on the Cambrian line means nothing newer than 158s (or 37s for locos). Still quite a good gap though.

AFAIK links (and chains) were only ever used for horizontal measurements, not vertical. For reference, 1 chain = 22 yards = 66 feet = 100 links. Therefore 1link = 66 x 12 ÷ 100 = 7.92 inches.