Posts about travelling by train in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland in the UK, and indeed Ireland itself

The institute for Dark Tourism Research | Professor Sharpley Interview

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Ever visited anywhere faintly morbid? A cemetery, a site where genocide has taken place, a battlefield? If so, you might be considered a Dark Tourist by the iDTR, a research project on Dark Tourism that now offers an MA in the subject. I went to interview Professor Richard Sharpley.

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The First Virgin Conspiracy

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Virgin Trains ran the East Coast Mainline for a decade. Then suddenly FirstGroup won a bid at great expense to take over from Virgin. It made absolutely no business sense. This lead me to speculate that it was all a big conspiracy lead by the Department for Transport.

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