5 - Westbury?

Some of us can remember when no trains at all had on-board announcements.

I'll say Patchway.

Yes - it's 'The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery'. Liss station?

Barnetby?

Today's is the National Railway Museum.

So what would have been the most direct route from Cardiff to Holyhead prior to the 'reduction to a skeleton'?

Possibly via Merthyr Tydfil then the Mid-Wales line to Moat Lane Junction. Change there for the  Cambrian Coast route to Afon Wen, then to Bangor and Holyhead?

May be more direct on the map but I suspect it would take more than 5 hours. At least nowadays no changes are necessary.

 

It was known as the Interoceanic Ship Railway and was proposed for construction across Mexico in the days before the Panama Canal was built.

https://www.maritimeheritage.org/ports/Mexico-Interoceanic-Ship-Railway.html

http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/pcsa1.Html

There was an article about the proposal in the Railway Magazine for May 2008.

I used to think Brightside was inappropriate for the gloomiest, most heavily industrialised part of Sheffield.

There's that couple just outside Nottingham - Burt 'n Joyce.

This was more than 40 years ago at Ryde, but they're still operating:

He's the patron of a relevant charity:

https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/latest-news/706-stephen-fry-leads-campaign-to-make-every-second-count-when-a-child-is-reported-missing.html

Just to say that last Saturday I travelled on 800320 on the 1226 from Cardiff (started at Swansea) as far as Swindon and I'm practically certain that it ran on electric power from Bristol Parkway onwards.

I took it to be a species of refreshment trolley (for use on platforms).

Lincoln Central as I still call it.