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Brief update as this continues to make its way through the legal system: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgdd2yevd3o

I think this is one of those things where on a utilitarian/technocratic basis there are strong arguments that some settlements should just be abandoned. I often wonder about some of the former pit villages in County Durham the likes of Horden or Blackhall Colliery (nominative determinism? ;))...

Whilst the RAIB aren't investigating the inquest has been opened: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/driver-who-died-crash-train-34767435

In a rare outbreak of sanity (such as it is) they're now not going to livestream the upcoming execution of the Fort Hood murderer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crx23qlnj27qo

Fingers crossed! Would be extremely frustrating if this falls over because people couldn't come to an agreement for a short term crisis period.

I wonder what the method of operation is going to be? 221s are driver release and close (on instruction of the guard giving 2-1 telling the driver to close doors) and there are no door controls provided to the guard other than the door buzzer to communicate with the driver and a key switch to...

Yeah the widespread abuse of the reservation system to implement things that various TOCs want to do but don't have the gumption to do properly really does need stamping down on.

Well, this is certainly on the more barmy end of the scale of ideas... I'm looking forward to the first Penalty Fare that comes through with someone on an Anytime but doesn't have a reservation for the right service.

Yes that sudden pivot into that weird portal nonsense really didn't work for me. Which is a shame as it had been good fun (well as much fun as "the bad guys win WW2 can be" :lol:) until then! Yeah which is another shame as that final season had been developing well and it felt like the show...

It is interesting. There is a view, particularly online, that the UK is basically a sharia law hellhole where Islam has become the de facto state religion and you'll be stabbed by a migrant as soon as you leave your front door especially if you're white. This, of course, does not reflect my...

It's a popular one but Game of Thrones whole last season went completely off the rails. It was pretty obvious that whatever creative juice had existed had just completely fled the writers and producers. It had been rocky for a while (basically once they ran out of book material to adapt) but it...

I listened to the latest episode of the Captains Speaking podcast (another episode was linked previously, its hosted by a pair of very experienced 737 captains and type rating examiners with one of them being the host of the Mentor Pilot channel) which seemed like the best summary of what we...

Disappointing, I made use of the Newcastle - Exeter service (yes yes i know there's plenty of CrossCountry but it was a much quicker way to get there). However not entirely surprising. The times I used it on Friday it was never exactly busy. With fuel costs being what they are I'm not surprised...

This was a very long time ago now but I certainly used a Freedom of the North East on Hull Trains between Doncaster and Retford. Personally I would use it and not expect any serious issues on any of the OAOs. Plus at the end of the day the worst case scenario is you have to buy a ticket as they...

I've tweaked the thread title just to make sure there's no other confusion ;)