18 not counting those where I've only passed through on the train.

You should visit Lincoln for the cathedral and Merthyr Tydfil for the industrial history.

I would have refused to respond unless they put it in plain English.

4 - Ilfracombe is in Devon, the others are in Cornwall.

3. - Weymouth

6 - Westbury?

Gives an idea of what it used to be like - sometime in the 1980s:

6. King's Cross?

All I know is that I've made a total of 12 journeys since the beginning of July, mostly on Saturdays, but also a couple of times on Fridays and Sundays and a trolley has appeared at least once every time.

That's been between Cardiff and Paddington - sometimes the whole journey, sometimes shorter on that line.

1. - Glasgow Central?

Did it cause you to break into song?

Yarmouth to Barmouth

12 - Worcestershire Parkway?

A science fiction novel was written in the 1970s about a railway tunnel to America. Written by Harry Harrison, the British title is 'A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Through_the_Deeps

It was the artist who illustrated the Railway Series books who drew Thomas as an E2 0-6-0T. The author only gives a very general description of him in the text.

According to the book 'The Island of Sodor, Its people, history and railways' by The Rev W. Awdry and G. Awdry' (and they ought to know), James is a L&YR Class 28 0-6-0, but as this class 'had a tendency to be nose-heavy especially when...driven at speed the designer George Hughes, in an effort to counteract this defect, built the engine we now know as James with 5' 6" coupled wheels, and a pony truck in front. The design did not entirely produce the improvement hoped for, and after the Grouping the LMS^▸ (London Midland Scottish - 1923 to 1948) sold this engine to the North Western Railway [i.e. the main line railway of Sodor] who have now corrected most of the faults in the design, including the wooden brake blocks'.

Perhaps if it read 'Passengers must not use this MDF crossing' no-one would know what it meant.

Well I know I wouldn't.