Recent content by Shimbleshanks

I have a soft spot for Ramsey on the Isle of Man. A distant view of the hills behind and it is a proper old-fashioned bus station.

I have one of those too; only issue I have with it is that it's too big to go into the cupholder in the car.

But on the other hand you could start very early and finish very late. If you could get six complete circuits in, that would be 162 miles. Of course, you'd need to convince the driver that you weren't completely mad.

Could you get on a circular route like the 11A/C in Birmingham and just go round and round all day?

I think the Lansdown Road footbridge at East Croydon was supposed to get a split footbridge but it hasn't happened yet and possibly never will. CL

Somewhat off-topic, but I think the RAF Valley station on Anglesey has some means of warning the railway in the event of an aircraft encroaching on the runway.

A few years ago, I was travelling on a Eurostar from London to Paris. Opposite were a young-ish couple (two blokes) who had been meant to catch a Brussels service changing at Lille for a service to the south of France but had somehow contrived to get on the Paris train instead. The guard came...

Yes, that is the case. In fact, when I used the service a few weeks ago the driver seem pleased and slightly surprised to be presented with a ready-bought ticket, so I don't think many people avail themselves of the facility.

Plus the express from Belfast to International Airport

Gefco do or did have quite a sizeable trailer fleet and I believe they had a few containers and swapbodies in their fleet, so it's plausible. Racking my brains to think of any other current operators beginning with 'G'. CL

https://kesr.org.uk/museum/snailbeach-district-railway/ I read the other day on a couple of sites that the Snailbeach District Railway company was still in existence, even though the line itself had ceased all rail operation by 1959. However, according to the KESR site, Snailbeach District...

A friend of mine says he has spotted, from a train, what looks to be a track maintenance vehicle in the back garden of a house bordering the railway. He describes it as a 'pod with windscreen for driver and mate. Yellow livery looks genuine. Seems to be standard, not narrow-gauge.' No...

I'm struggling with the letter 'Q'. There's a leasing company called Qube Containers https://qubecontainers.co.uk/ No idea - it came off their website. I guess it might be their main base in Moerdijk. 1744835561 Try here: https://www.johngrussell.co.uk/

Here's a pic of an A2B container - website is https://a2b-online.com/ if you want more.

Only slightly larger and Caernarfon is much more of a tourist draw as well as being a bit of an administrative centre for the region. Ferries would only come into it the odd few times a day when they run and in any case rail/sea traffic must be pretty minimal in the era of low-cost flights...