Daily Archives: December 11, 2023

Monday’s Friday Reads – 11 December 2023

• Brent Cross West station: The next stage in a long London journey (Dave Hill) • Passengers trapped on cold, dark trains as travel chaos hits west London (The Guardian) • South Western rail boss to become London’s 1st female transport commissioner (Evening Standard) • Reopening Tilbury Riverside railway station’s booking hall after three decades (Ian Visits) • Why 2023…

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Now That IS A Bus! …

  … And It Comes From Bristol When fbb was a little sprog at Northampton Grammar School (form 2AL) a chum, Graham Askew, arrived one day with an alphabet poem.  It began … A tor Horses B for Mutton C for Yourself  D for Hard of  Hearing … and continues similarly. Young Askew claimed his dad had written it – but…

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