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Not sure Worcester would be up to a 'transponder or techy' solution as they never seem to have got them to work in the past. I am old enough to remember when they introduced a system called Scoot to link the various traffic lights throughout the city. In theory if you caught your first on green and ...

I am not really into planes but I've very much enjoyed looking at this superb collection of pictures of some fascinating looking aircraft. Thanks Tim.

The 202 seems to be pretty much exclusively Solo operated these days although I haven't seen it at peak times.

I'm not close enough to things to know whether he was making a real difference but it sounds from the comments in the press that things were improving. A pity therefore that he's gone with the job unfinished. Of course, it could just be that he's had a better offer from elsewhere but, on the other h...

Thanks for the pictures, Tim.

Look forward to seeing it on the SVR next week when we are booked on one of the Flying Scotsman departures, unfortunately at 08:20 a.m. but we are having a breakfast hamper so should be good.

Almost every month, 'Buses' magazine has reports of independents going out of business. Some are probably not well run but others are of very long standing and well known such as Silcox of Pembroke Dock which in its time must have survived many recessions and hard times. It suggests that there is so...

My experience of the pre-war fleet was that the manually operated doors were very rarely closed even in the coldest weather. No heaters either in those days so we passengers and crew must have been a much hardier lot. The drivers and conductors were issued with uniform great coats though and a lot o...