Indeed ... and that just leaves the name of the place in picture 7 ... correctly identified as the north end of the Forth Bridge;  it's "North Queensferry" - the name that's also applied to the station at the north end of the bridge.

Yes - someone remind me what it is called? 

Well - I would certainly prefer to do my bookings all at the same time - I can know what the total travel price will be before I make my final decision, and I've not got to remember to come back to my booking 12 weeks before departure for a second wave of arrangements.

Yes, it is ... September was that mad month which we started with a trip to Portland, then recored for "Four in a Bed" in Crieff, Blackpool, Melksham and Worcester in that order.   And I'm proud to say we covered most of the mileage by train.

1. Portland
3. Stirling
4. Melksham (nasty cough you picked up there, Chris)
5. Worcester Foregate Street
6. Blackpool
all correct.

An incorrect guess for 2, and 7 and 8 to be tried



Edit note: Punctuation amended to remove irrelevant smiley produced by '8 between brackets'. 

It's a while since we had a good, traditional "one picture each" quiz ... and I've had some pictures I've not been able to share until now.    Where are they?

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These days, various laws such as the disability discrimination ones say that service businesses have to take all reasonable steps to provide a service that's at least equal in quality to the service provided to able-bodied people.   It doesn't say "the same service" nor does it stop discrimination in favour of disabled people.

The most cost effective way to adhere to these laws, especially where customer numbers are small and a tiny proportion of the total as well, may be to throw cost to the wind when a service is needed.    It would probably cost around a milion pounds to put in a ramped footbridge at Maiden Newton - how many taxi journeys would be covered for that?   Better delay until the current footbridge is life expired.   At busier stations (Worle, Bradford-on-Avon) the sums would have been different.

Stay on the train via Weymouth as the northbound platform at Maiden Newton has step free access?   Train has ramps, Train Manager will help.

I would be very worried indeed about anyone who felt the need to get "happy" on his / her days off over Christmas to the extent that it was a serious concern as to whether they would be sober on their next shift.  Surely there are plenty of other shift breaks during the year if they want to drink occasionally. I have to start asking questions about someone who's really that determined that he/she should drink over Christmas - have they a dependency / are they too weakwilled to say to familiy "no, I have to look after the lives of hundreds of people tomorrow", and if either answer is "yes", should they really be in that position?

Just coming back to add a further link for myself as site owner.   My wife and I run an IT training centre and hotel in Wiltshire, and we featured on "Four in a Bed" on Channel 4 on 9th January 2013.  The show can be watched for the next 3 weeks via "4 on demand" - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/four-in-a-bed/4od#3463234 - nothing much in the show to do with transport, but it gives a public view if anyone's interested.

Further discussion is already here in our frequent posters area, where members who log in and post regularly meet up.

People judge other the first time they see them from a sterotype - what they believe a typical person in a role or with a certain look is / how a person in that role behaves.  First (often skewed) impressions, often lumping in the exceptional with the standard genre.  I recall a thread here that talked about travellers in First class, and it was stated (regrettably by a member of staff) that in the evening, he started ticket checks in First class with an assumption that passengers of a certain age / look wouldn't have first class tickets.  I know I've been casually dressed on some of the rare occasions I've travelled first, and been struck by a change of attitude once I present my correct ticket.

Same thing - away from the station.  If I walk through our local town, Lisa, myself and one of the dogs and we see one attitude.   Lisa goes into a shop, I sit on the pavement or curb with a (big, black, clearly loving) mongrel just taking in the scene, and the attitude can change.  I haven't changed, though ...

Seems like it, doesn't it?  Actually it's just 16 days since it was clear for a long period during the day.

And where the Sussex is this?


http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10156102._/?

Great great great grandfather rights, isn't it