Recent content by DH1Commuter

Agreed; the number of biomass plants and ports is dwarfed by the numbers of coal plants and mines when EWS came in. Even accounting for those scheduled to close in the late 90s, biomass doesn’t come close. As someone who lived under the Durham viaduct in the 2000s it was normal to have...

Back to the original question: very. Working in the NHS I have been involved operationally when IT systems have gone down for days (due to deliberate attacks by non-state* actors), in an era when we are more and more IT-dependent. Stuff gets cancelled. Waiting lists go up. The recovery phase...

I’d had a really challenging day and was en route to London late evening for a meeting next day. LNER staff member asked if I wanted a drink and I said yes. Then on the way back passed a couple more with a smile. Pennies for the railway but so appreciated.

On a sunny day Pelaw station can be quite pleasant; as above there are occasional freights, fairly frequent northern services and the odd GC movement. Also has an overbridge from which the stabling sidings and the splitting of the lines can be seen, as well as (just about) where the Leamside...

Hopefully with barriers that are not always open, and on-train checks.

This.

If the OP is a regulated healthcare professional then their regulator will expect self-declaration of any intended prosecution against them. Failure to disclose would be considered a probity issue by GMC/GDC/NMC if discovered later, regardless of outcome.

Hard to say, as many stations were built VERY basic AND in deprived areas so the extremely basic nature of them is built in; my initial response was going to be Felling, but it is meant to be how it is….

Absolutely this - Ashington and Blyth have needed this for a very long time, and giving people there affordable, rapid transport to the largest employment centre in the region, the Metro, and the location of multiple education facilities, is likely to be a net benefit to poorer people as well as...

If we’re going for anecdotes, I commute 5-6 days a week on a short portion of the ECML and 1-2x a month to London. The vast majority of days I catch the same train, which is almost always on time. If not, there’s either one soon after or there’s been a suicide and everything is hugely delayed...

Sorry, but almost all childcare providers finish at six. Big fines for every few minutes late. This is not a problem unique to the railway but the UK’s expensive, inflexible childcare system is a major problem and if it is my day to pick up my youngest I will drop everything to make that...

TPE linking Newcastle to Lime Street?

WCML all the way. Stated as someone who uses the ECML most days, albeit this would be #2, and would have been #1 when coal was king.

Large. A hangover from coal days.

Yes. After a full month of RRBs on the ECML in March tomorrow the RRBs are back north of York.