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With my knowledge of many flights over to the States: Outbound you will be served lunch service with a light snack before landing in Orlando. Inbound to the UK you will be given dinner shortly after take off with a breakfast service before landing back in the UK as your flight is a red eye.

I think there are plans to redevelop the retail park opposite into a mixed residential area at some point in the future. Not sure how these plans fit in with the station rebuild. Leyton will become a much busier station if it happens.

If you're stretched for time you can ride the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Omiya (Saitama prefecture) where the National Rail Museum is. The museum is actually one stop away at Tetsudō-Hakubutsukan on the New Shuttle rubber-tyred line but you get to try out an interesting transport mode. The museum...

Museo H Zero in Florence - excellent little model railway museum in the heart of the city. Think a smaller version of Hamburg's Minatur Wunderland. https://www.hzero.com/en Actually, Florence in generally is a beautiful place to stop off and visit for a day or two.

I was able to top up the two anonymous cards we bought on our trip to Paris this spring using my smartphone and the NFC function. Pretty handy for buying passes/tickets without having to go to a ticket machine.

I have to say, these new trains do look really good.

Oxford Bus Company have published the timetable for the final two days of service...

Don't see why this would be a problem. There's 4G coverage everywhere on the Tokyo Metro (I was there last week) and talking on phones on the trains over there is generally frowned upon. Most people were simply messaging or web surfing.

Rode one of these to and from Narita during my trip to Tokyo last week. The seat legroom is amazing and it's a very comfortable ride. :)

2020 isn't really that far away when you think about it.

I've walked up City Road to Angel many times. Usually takes me no more than 15-20 mins, so perfectly feasible to walk between those two stations in less than an hour.

You can also take the A subway train (towards Far Rockaway) to Howard Beach and get the Airtrain from there.

No mention of Clapham Junction? Fine if you're heading for Victoria, Waterloo or the Overground but try to head somewhere on the SWT suburban lines and you have to spend a few minutes studying the departure board to know which platform you need to trek to.

I regularly use the 68 along this stretch and I'm not surprised that this has happened (thankfully not to a bus I'm on). It's not unknown for buses to speed along the stretch trying to beat the traffic lights at Aldwych. In fact there has been several occasions where it feels like the bus just...

I think it'll only alleviate the Lexington Avenue line somewhat. Commuters still pile off Metro North trains at Grand Central and some will need to head downtown and their only option is the 4/5/6. I really think the MTA need to consider some sort of Crossrail scheme linking up Metro North with...