Always ready to give his readers a linguistic challenge, the above piece of Japanese orthography forms the core of our first Monday Variety item. It is, as you will all know, the name of a town in Japan. So here is the far less challenging headline in English text. Unusual Utsunomiya Undertaking And there it is, approx 100km north of…
Chaos And Confusion In California This sounds like particularly good news for the sir-travelling American folk as the nation and its inhabitants wrestle with the challenge of global warming, cheap oil, pollution, air quality and international pressure to save a bit of the planet. Although six train sets to serve the massive mega cities of the USA west coast doesn’t…
Befuddled By Brands Almost all pictures of buses in Cherbourg show route numbers and the brand Zephir. The town core network consists of services numbered 1 to 6 … … plus one night service. Interurban routes are lettered. Le réseau devient effectif au 30 août 2021, la nouvelle marque et le nouveau réseau commence cependant avec plusieurs problèmes notamment des…
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Dave And Carrie Have An Adventure (1) (weary of typing No 1 Son etc.) Their adventure begins here at the SNCF station in Cherbourg. It is a modest affair … … seen above on the platform side of the buildings. But if we turn through 180 degrees … … we see a new booking hall area that has been built…
From Poole To Cherbourg A Pied No 1 son plus No 1 son’s Mrs took a short break in Cherbourg as foot passengers. They travelled OUT on a proper ferry operated by Brittany ditto … … and returned c/o Condor on one of those super sleek wave piercer catamarans. The ferry terminus at Cherbourg … … is obviously a deep…
Signatrol, the premier data logging experts has launched an easy-to-use cryogenic temperature data logger in the UK, developed specifically for temperatures as low as -90°C, making it ideal for use in dry ice transportation of perishable food and medical supplies. The new tempmate-C1 device has been introduced to complement the company’s S1-PRO Single use data loggers, so providing a complete…
Bemused By Buses In Barry Once the home of Western Welsh Transport (later National Welsh and, yes, it is confusing), with a depot in the town, fbb seems to remember that post deregulation an expansionist Cardiff Bus created a first strike onslaught on the town’s bus network. Whatever the history,hb Barty and neighbouring Penarth are now very much orange territory.…
Political Double Think – Twenty’s Plenty We all know that the Welsh Government is busting a gut to improve public transport … … to encourage more people to travel by bus … … and, ultimately, to hand all bus services over to Transport for Wales. So, as part of this pro public transport policy, from 17th September, all 30mph speed…
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