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Incident and subsequent RAIB report is covered on today's Green Signals. Conclusion drawn is that the driver was distracted due to the train manager being in the cab. https://www.greensignals.org/podcast/great-western-railway-nationalisation-date-confirmed/

Heads of state don't greet guests at the airport, they always send a lackey to do it instead. The political game is in choosing which lackey will do the greeting. Trump got the vice president, which was quite a coup. It's very rare for someone so senior to do the airport greeting.

Thought I'd share an amusing experience I had in the Inverness City Centre Premier Inn at the weekend. I say "amusing", but the first time I encountered it I didn't find it amusing. As you probably know, a standard Premier Inn room has a light switch by the door as you walk in, and there is...

I think it's a bit unreasonable to expect a coach you have reserved a seat in to always be platformed at your joining and leaving stations. You can reserve a seat up to 90 days in advance. The train operator won't know at that early stage what the train formation of that service will be, and...

Yes indeed, there also used to be a roof spanning the tracks. In that respect, seeing how far the station has declined from it's heyday is indeed very sad.

I did The Highland Chieftain last month and it was named as such on the departure board at Inverness. The train manager also used the name in the welcome announcement on board.

Just done the Rose Street Curve to reverse into platform 1, ready for tomorrow. Nice bit of rare track. 1778434817 Yes, that would have been the outward journey. On the return journey we passed the Royal Scotsman there at Strathcarron so your photo would have been very different. Incidentally...

At Kyle of Lochalsh today

Says the poster who, earlier today in this thread, posted "anyone who voted Reform performed a brainless, vacuous, moronic act.". Not really the kind of language that invites an intelligent conversation.

I am on the HST this weekend, which I'm looking forward to. It's an interesting routing tomorrow as the Marches line is closed north of Hereford. So the tour is taking the Malvern line and going around Birmingham to get to Shrewsbury. Looks like leg stretches at Penrith and Perth. Hopefully the...

The city airport at Bristol should really have been Filton, once Concorde retired. It already had great transport connections, it was right in the centre, has one of the longest runways in the country. It would have been ideal for the airport, rather than one out in the sticks.

Mallaig has a relatively large toilet block located in West Bay car park right next to the station.

Yes, I always get it to remove em dashes too. Full stops at the end of headings is another one. I always get it to remove them. Wikipedia have been listing all the tell-tale signs of AI copy as a reference for their editors, and it's now become one of the most comprehensive lists I know of. So...

LLMs are very useful for researching stuff and presenting you with a shortlist for you to investigate. For example - "I am looking for a hotel in Manchester. It needs to be within a 10 minute walk of Piccadilly station, it needs to have step-free disabled access, it needs to be dog friendly, it...

Back before LSL put their short 2+5 set together, these Inverness/Kyle tours were done using the full length HST set. The tour to Kyle on the second day would depart from platform 1 and head just out of the station on the Highland Main Line. Then it would reverse and take Rose Street Curve past...