Tag: places to go

Annan is the first authentic Scottish town beyond the border.  You can get a real sense of being “abroad” in an authentic Scottish town,...

I wanted a long journey last August to see how the railway was performing outside the north-east, so I went to tiny Silverdale in...

I had my visit to Brampton all planned out for Saturday 2nd January.  Then we, and they, went into Tier 4 in advance of the third...

On the many occasions I have been to visit Berwick, I have always turned right out of the station to follow Castlegate into the...

My visit to Rochdale in May 2019 was something of an experiment.  I was trying to see whether this Places to Go column could...

A highly enjoyable visit to Dundee could be had without straying more than 100 metres from the newly rebuilt railway station. There is the...

The original plan was to go to Jodrell Bank, the radio astronomical observatory in Cheshire, walking distance from a little country station called Goostrey,...

In January I had a meeting in Stoke-on-Trent, in north Staffordshire. I was coming from London and stayed overnight in the North Stafford Hotel,...

There are far more people booking rail tickets to Peterborough than actually ever go there, since for adherents to split ticketing, Peterborough is the...

Aberdeen is 255 miles north of Newcastle by rail, about the same as London, but fares are cheaper because there are plenty of trains...