For telephone numbers in the UK try UKphonebook for yellow and white pages. A very useful source of local maps is Multimap . For train travel go to Rail timetable . In fact there are now web resources of this kind for most purposes, if you look around. If buying they are usually competitively priced, but beware, not always after you add postage.
Most publishers have a web site.
For an excellent information resource and gateway for research papers try the NISS page library and resources link. In fact the whole BBC site is just amazing, entertaining and useful for a great many things. If you are wanting to improve you Internet skills I can throughly recommend Netskills both for their website and their courses site. If you don't know the direct route the most useful general starting point for government departments, local authorities and other public bodies is the UK Government home page. We have also included The National Assembly for Wales as a special service for our fellow residents of the Principality.