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[AHB = Automatic half barrier] This is not hypothetical, I saw it for real yesterday along Findern Lane in south Derbyshire, where the traffic queuing to get into Mercia Marina for the illuminated drone display was tailing back over the crossing all the way to the Canal Bridge junction in...

Recompense for being the UK's Worst Bus Service, so much more civilised than a fine, don't you think? It just happens to coincide with the SVR diesel gala... https://www.diamondbuses.com/news/kidderminster-3-service-offer/

I was waiting for the (late running) bus into Derby outside the marina yesterday when Findern AHB crossing fired up for the passage of the 1342 Derby - Crewe, and then a 222 rumbled across. Meanwhile in XCworld I've seen a 220 on a Birmingham - Nottingham service calling at Willington a year or...

(DMNS = Don's Miniature New Street, a 4mm layout in a leafy suburban part of Sutton Coldfield) I last saw this about seven or eight years ago, not long before the sad passing of Don Jones and was struck by the whole thing being frozen in c1990, with not a pendo, vomiter or plastic unit in...