Recent content by CaledonianBlue

Thanks, that's interesting.

You'd think so. In principle. But in practice I'm not sure how this will be interpreted. On the thread What exactly is "essential travel only"? someone interpreted it to mean those were the (only) reasonable excuses, leaving no room for others. "So by the letter of the above legislation, you're...

I think there are two issues here, which could no doubt be settled by stats, though I don't have time to go into them now. One is the relative risk of dying. The other is the relative risk of spreading infection. I may be more likely to die in a car accident than from Covid caught from a...

Well I don't mean to be argumentative, but irrespective of how experienced you are, you can't help if other people start crowding near you or, as I say, suddently pop up. You may know that at station X there may be a likely influx of people, but there's nothing you could do about it (except...

Eveyone will be different of course. But, I think in a supermarket, you generally have a chance to dodge people, stand back, withdraw, and if necessary walk out. But you could feel more trapped on a train, if people are clustering round doors to get on or off, or if (at any station stop...

As well as the issue of legality, there is a question of whether travelling by train would be safe - while you may not relish a long car journey, I wonder if a long train journey (or series of journey legss) would be abnormally stressful, in terms of feeling out of control if you end up trapped...

Thanks for this information and interpretation. It's interesting that, as you highlight, Regulation 6 gives examples of reasonable excuses; and I wonder if this means that some other actions could be allowable, that are not explicitly given as reasonable excuses, but could yet be construed as...

Does anyone have any experiences or tips for travelling during COVID-19 social distancing conditions, that the rest of us could learn from when emerging from lockdown? Any situations where you were faced with crowding or were able to avoid crowding? Any unexpectedly good or bad times to travel...

I don't know anything about rumours or rumblings but can you explain why GN brand would be considered toxic rather than Thameslink?

What I don't understand is why the Thameslink services go so far out, if they are trying to be glorified metro services? For example why insist on the trains all the way from say Cambridge to Brighton? Why didn't they convert the more local services to Welwyn or Letchworth (say) to Thameslink...

Perhaps 'isolation' is the wrong word but surely, factually, places like Cardiff, Glasgow, Sunderland, Hull and Liverpool (however slightly) are more peripheral to the set of cities than others, and (as others have pointed out) simply less likely in the first place, to lie on the path between...

OK so if there is no chance to make London-Norwich via Cambridge competitive, one wonders for the vision of different private companies competing over different routes? For starters, off the top of my head, clockwise from the Thames to the ECML, how many cases are there? London-Southend...

Surely almost any section of underground rail can be regarded as a precious urban asset (barring stubs like Aldwych in London), that other cities without them would be grateful for; in this case the ability to serve both Glasgow's main termini with underground services to south/east and west.

Rothesay? Could help give the place a boost, even if largely a tourist attraction?

Interesting. If Norwich-Cambs electrified and speeded up - a big if, perhaps - then some time could be shaved off, on top of saving of transfer time at Cambridge added in? I'm not saying it would be my top priority; and if a nationalised railway you can see why they'd prioritise GEML as you...