[…] when bars and supperrooms and cafés throw out floods of light upon the pavement, crowded with sauntering figures; when the air is heavy with cigarsmoke and filled with the rustle-rustle of stiff silks —then the Haymarket is the Haymarket.

The decline of the northern hairy-nosed wombats has been largely human-related.

Although most modern OTDR equipment can store at least eight days' worth of data (in line with current industry standards), when it was downloaded from the Class 57s involved, it was discovered they had stored just over eight hours' worth of data.

a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed