Most London trains from Brighton are about 1 hour.

It is 53 miles approx. The standard train time from Sheffield - London is 2 hours 7 minutes for 150 miles. Our trains our well over twice as fast.

Of course if you want to give really daft examples, it is a further 1 hour 25 minutes to Lille in France, so Sheffield is 3.5 hours from Lille and I'd call that excellent transport links. One change of train and no change of station.

To people in Sheffield Maltby is in the Sheffield area - indeed I include the "Rock at Maltby" in my folk club listings each week on my radio show.

A list of artistes appearing in the Sheffield area this forthcoming week starting tonight:

Roy Bailey, Inge Thomson, Fraser Fifield, Martin Green, Will Pound, Simon Care, Fay Hield, O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow, Skyhook, Harvey Andrews, Cockersdale and the McCalmans. That is just the nationally known ones.

And linking the two things together we have a once a month Folk Train. Now I call THAT public transport!!