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Derbyshire County Council has run out of money and is one step short of joining Birmingham, Nottingham and others in the financial mire.
Anything which costs council money is under review and is likely to be cut/abandoned if is not statutory or funded from elsewhere.
I don't know what the...
I remember the 'weasel bell' on Doncaster station in the 1970s to call a porter to the barrier to do some 'weaseling' - a passenger needing assistance with luggage which would likely generate a tip.
I could also imagine some soviet nations having numbered rather than named stations, though would probably be of the format ‘Station No.4’.
A lot of stations in remote areas are simply 123Km or suchlike based upon their distance along the line
Meanwhile, France has the now closed stations of...
Stanlow & Thornton served Stanlow oil refinery and nothing else
Port Sunlight was built as a private station for Lever's soap works until becoming a public station with its own direct private access to the factory until the 1960s
Cold Meece station was built for a Second World War munitions...
Andrews of Tideswell bus T4 FEG burnt out on Monsall Road on Tuesday evening 28 November
Photos posted on line and on BBC but no other details seemingly available
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I think...
I remember back in the 1970s that Harworth Glass Bulbs (off the South Yorkshire Jt line) used to export by rail in through ferry vans to Iran.
I've seen BR 'Through to the continent with BR' vans running Eastwards through central Turkey back in 1979, they had got there of course by the ferries...
It's Millions of GBP per mile - an essential qualification which I didn't state
It's the average for each country of the GPB figures shown in the final column of the table.
Simply taking the rail project cost by mile for each project by country, the average by country doesn't show the UK in a bad light
USA £1,277
Australia £617
Singapore £452
Canada £450
Denmark £361
Germany £348
Norway £334
Sweden £305
Japan £264
Italy £240
UK £211
Spain £128
France £119
S Korea £73
The roster clerk had one of the most difficult roles trying to ensure everything was covered and if it wasn't, finding the best combination within national agreements, local practices and knowing who could be relied upon to fill the gap.
Overtime was a big motivator for some people but would...
I remember in the mid 1970s Doncaster Division claimed the record for carrying the largest load ever carried on British railways. If I remember correctly, it was a cracker for one of the Immingham oil refineries carried from Immingham Dock. The claim was recognised in the Guinness Book of...
Back in the early days of BR, through until the 1960s, free passes depended upon grade. My father was a booking clerk on the Western Region and his free travel was confined to the region - reflected in the locations of family holidays whilst I was growing up. Even in the early 1970s there were...
Just discovered this map - an excellent tool.
The X17 route from Barnsley-Sheffield-Chesterfield-Matlock has been doubled between Chesterfield and Matlock to two an hour, with alternate buses travelling through to Wirksworth. Wirksworth is also served by the 6.1 between Matlock and Belper and...