Recent content by SquireBev

On a recent trip to Leamington Spa it struck me as very strange how the station faces away from the town. The forecourt and main building are on the "wrong" side of the line, which you have to pass under to get to the town centre. Having looked into it, it's because there used to be another...

This may be of some help: http://www.stationcolours.info/london-midland-scottish-railway/

Not to reopen the whole Gareth Dennis/Lord Hendy thing, but the irony is off the charts here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e742j01y1o

The last straw for me was when she pronounced "epitome" to rhyme with "home". Does nobody check these things anymore?

Not necessarily - you could be re-watching videos you've taken yourself, for instance, and most streaming services have the option to download music so you can keep listening even without a signal.

Looks like that is indeed it. @pdeaves has sent me a link to Crown Banqueting's website, which includes photos of the garden. This is the bit I can't quite fathom either. If access is from the gate then it's also across some pretty rough ground - hardly suitable for wedding shoes.

Someone on the Birmingham subreddit has just spotted this mystery garden and has asked if anyone knows anything about it. Nobody else on there has any ideas, so I thought I'd try a more specialist crowd... It appears to be on railway land, atop the viaduct where the old abandoned Bordesley...

A common feature of a lot of heritage railways does seem to be an excess of platform staff imperiously striding about in caps and waistcoats but not actually doing anything, while the sector at large complains about a lack of volunteers.

Large swathes of West Yorkshire seem to be suffering power cuts, presumably thanks to the same storm, and that can't be helping matters.

I think this image neatly encapsulates the problem...

The announcements at Birmingham New Street used to pronounce Bournville with the stress on "ville". BournVILLE. Very odd.

Wolverhampton Low Level? The old station building is still in situ and visible from the platforms of the current (High Level) station.

Good

I'd love to see Martin Bairstow-esque books covering the West Midlands in as much detail as he's covered the West Riding.

My visit? It was last month.