Public Transport Information? Doesn't sound a very exciting place to spend my lunch break.

Probably not, unless you're planning a holiday in Britain and don't own a car. Or you need to find out which airlines fly to Teesside. Or you can never remember to bookmark all the different railway company sites, and the trainline.com has ground to a halt on a Monday lunchtime.

Hang on. You can't say that. One of their PRs is on the phone and wants to fax over some site reliability statistics.

Maybe she can explain why the ticket clerks at Euston had no knowledge of my last online booking. ("Sometimes they go astray, but I can't do anything about it.") But if we have to talk about train journeys, let's explore some of the tiny services you can find here -the Great Little Trains of Wales, or the Strathspey steam railway in Aviemore.

Or the Hadrian's Wall bus service

Exactly. The site is designed to look like a card file, and finding out about rail, air, ferry or bus services is a matter of choosing the Local section and picking a spot on the map of the UK.

Who's behind it?

The little-known Institute of Logistics and Transport, which sets down standards for the sites listed. It isn't the most memorable of sites, but for that very reason it's well worth bookmarking.