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term='tickets'/><category term='Warren'/><category term='Rainford'/><category term='Little Sutton'/><category term='Neston'/><category term='Walton'/><category term='Mike'/><category term='museums'/><category term='Holyhead'/><category term='Freshfield'/><category term='Birkenhead North TMD'/><category term='Orrell'/><category term='Layton'/><category term='James Bond'/><category term='Moorfields'/><category term='Glasgow Subway'/><category term='Southport'/><category term='Cefn-y-bedd'/><category term='MerseyTart on tour'/><category term='Blackpool North'/><category term='Blackpool Pleasure Beach'/><category term='Craig Munnerley'/><category term='Manor Road'/><category term='Thameslink'/><category term='Luton Airport Parkway'/><category term='HS2'/><category term='Barlaston'/><category term='Eccleston Park'/><category term='Salwick'/><category term='Chester'/><category term='Oswald Cobblepot'/><title type='text'>Comments on round the merseyrail we go: Up The Workers</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.merseytart.com/feeds/1473945343067383495/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/1473945343067383495/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.merseytart.com/2011/11/up-workers.html'/><author><name>Scott Willison</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/104620040942747176612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-FKS_1fJhyyQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/Aq8i5WpyWZs/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-4536897493319176683</id><published>2011-12-03T00:51:31.674Z</published><updated>2011-12-03T00:51:31.674Z</updated><title type='text'>I hate to be pedantic (well, I claim to hate) but ...</title><content type='html'>I hate to be pedantic (well, I claim to hate) but there is actually a way to cross by bike, and it&amp;#39;s (de facto) free too...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At night, once ferry/train connections have ceased, you can cycle through the Queensway tunnel. There&amp;#39;s a nominal fee of a penny but I&amp;#39;ve never heard of it actually being charged. If the Queensway is closed they&amp;#39;ll even let you through the Kingsway - though anecdotally I&amp;#39;ve heard of people being carted through on a landrover rather to avoid the effort of actually cycling.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/1473945343067383495/comments/default/4536897493319176683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/1473945343067383495/comments/default/4536897493319176683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.merseytart.com/2011/11/up-workers.html?showComment=1322873491674#c4536897493319176683' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.merseytart.com/2011/11/up-workers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-1473945343067383495' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/posts/default/1473945343067383495' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-154862372'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-1187533512597082340</id><published>2011-12-01T18:43:29.439Z</published><updated>2011-12-01T18:43:29.439Z</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for sticking up for us Scott (I was on stri...</title><content type='html'>Thanks for sticking up for us Scott (I was on strike yesterday), and your right, this is not a political blog,and all the better for it too, so I&amp;#39;ll leave it there.....nice to see how prepared Merseyrail were though. Keep up the good work, great travel writing, always cool to catch up with your travels :-)be great when you have covered all the stations on the map, but a shame there will be no more....unless there is of course? :-)</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/1473945343067383495/comments/default/1187533512597082340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/1473945343067383495/comments/default/1187533512597082340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.merseytart.com/2011/11/up-workers.html?showComment=1322765009439#c1187533512597082340' title=''/><author><name>Andy Howe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.merseytart.com/2011/11/up-workers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-1473945343067383495' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/posts/default/1473945343067383495' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-313624098'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-8978474481091029925</id><published>2011-12-01T13:07:14.677Z</published><updated>2011-12-01T13:07:14.677Z</updated><title type='text'>You learn something new every day! I thought maybe...</title><content type='html'>You learn something new every day! I thought maybe it was in case someone fell under the wheels ;)</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/1473945343067383495/comments/default/8978474481091029925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/1473945343067383495/comments/default/8978474481091029925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.merseytart.com/2011/11/up-workers.html?showComment=1322744834677#c8978474481091029925' title=''/><author><name>Scott Willison</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02284196034782356946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-FKS_1fJhyyQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/Aq8i5WpyWZs/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.merseytart.com/2011/11/up-workers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-1473945343067383495' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/posts/default/1473945343067383495' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1576416018'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-6403657277418882867</id><published>2011-12-01T09:31:09.148Z</published><updated>2011-12-01T09:31:09.148Z</updated><title type='text'>Flash the torch on white at the guard once its tel...</title><content type='html'>Flash the torch on white at the guard once its telling him to close to doors,then the second time it tells him/her to give the driver the ready to start signal. (haha i work for Merseyrail,not just random fact filled!!)</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/1473945343067383495/comments/default/6403657277418882867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/1473945343067383495/comments/default/6403657277418882867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.merseytart.com/2011/11/up-workers.html?showComment=1322731869148#c6403657277418882867' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.merseytart.com/2011/11/up-workers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329761583210135212.post-1473945343067383495' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8329761583210135212/posts/default/1473945343067383495' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1991553927'/></entry></feed>
