Posts archive for: 27 February, 2006
  • The largest town in England without a passenger railway service.

    A few years ago this used to be Mansfield, until the freight only line between Worksop and Nottingham was re-opened to passenger services. I'm not sure what town has this dubious distinction now.

    On a related theme, for many years Sheffield was the largest city in Europe without an airport; Sheffield City Airport opened about a dozen years ago but is scheduled to be closed in the near future...it was doomed to failure from the start due to its inappropriate location and funding regime. So the city's only claim to an airport now will be the ludicrously-named Doncaster/Sheffield Robin Hood International Airport at the old R.A.F. base at Finningley.

  • Random Page

    I've just discovered the 'random page' function on the wikipedia homepage. I'd not used it before, but have now spent several hours just flicking through all sorts of topics. It's introducing me to yet another whole new world to explore...more useless information buzzing about in my head though.

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