Consett and Match Fourteen miles to the southwest of Newcastle on the edge of the Northern Pennines, lies Consett, County Durham. This would be the scene for our next adventure in the northeast and what an adventure it turned out to be! Consett and the surrounding area have an abundance of coal, limestone and iron…
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Motherwell, Fir Park – Hopper Tales #42
Hoppers Guide Travel Nightmares Gordon Ramsay may have his kitchen problems but they are nothing compared to our train tribulations! Every week we seem to have problems of one kind or another, with delayed, cancelled or plain not-running trains. Now, with further strikes announced for the 3rd, 5th and 7th of November, this doesn’t look…