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I bought 3 of these cabinets in the past month and assembled first 2 and have found them very good. On unpacking the last one today, I found that one of the glass doors just shattered in my hands into a thousand pieces. I just wondered if anyone else had this experience or was it just a rogue door. Btw I phoned Lidl and they took details and promised a replacement part to be sent to me from manufacturer, no fuss, did n't even ask about receipt. So can't complain about the service.

I remember back in the mid-sixties reading in the local Glasgow papers of a steam train working from the Ayrshire coast to Glasgow St.Enoch one evening and having a problem because the driver was being diverted to Central Station (at Shields Junction I think) and the driver did n't know the way. He'd always driven into St.Enoch for years and never to Central. This struck me as odd even as a 12 year old considering the stations were only about 10 minutes walk from each other. I always thought drivers would have route knowledge of the last few miles of road in large cities with nearby terminals they could've been diverted to. I bet it must have caused a bit of a problem with a packed train of returning day-trippers stuck on the approach roads of a station as busy as Central.

Sorry, got some details wrong in previous post,(should have looked it up instead of doing it from memory). Was in Shettleston Rd, not Argyle St. and overhead came down causing fire. Regardless , point being trams worldwide still have good safety record.

In relation to the last tramway deaths which were in Glasgow in 1959, I remember hearing of it when I was a child. Apparently it happened in very thick fog when a tram which had stopped in Argyle St was unfortunate enough to be backed into by a lorry reversing out from St. Enoch Square loaded with scaffolding poles. One of the scaffolding poles encroached into the tram and by a fluke pierced the main fuse box near the rear exit and caused a short circuit starting a fire in which several people perished I believe. So that accident was not connected to tram safety in itself, just a tragic turn of events.

I think this has come up before, but Whittlesey on the Peterborough-March line, the station spells it Whittlesea. However since some other Fenland villages in this region are spelled Manea and Stonea, pronounced 'maney' and 'stoney' respectively, then possibly Whittlesey was spelt this way when the line was built and whereas the local spelling has changed to the more conventional over the years, the railway nameboards being produced centrally and changed by various railway companies and BR over the years will keep to the original spelling.

What happens when local pronounciation of a common factor varies according to different locations, e.g. rivers. I live in Peterborough and the local river Nene is pronounced as 'neen', but same river just a few miles away in Northampton is pronounced as 'nen' . So far the locals have n't fought over the matter yet!