Recent content by GrahamD83

I recently passed a school bus service near where I live (County Durham) displaying route number 5001, and It made me wonder how many bus routes around the country use four digit numbers? Three digits max has always seemed to be the common standard, since manual blind displays always had 3...

Sunderland would have been renumbered in the early 2000s to accommodate the T&W Metro platforms.

Most stations between James Cook (Middlesbrough) and Whitby are bi-directional as the line is mostly a single track with a token system.

Does Margate Platform 2 get used very often? I only visit once a year but in all of the times I have used the station I have never seen any departures scheduled from platform 2.

Something that has been bugging me about Deltics (and other loco hauled trains on the ECML for that matter). At London Kings Cross the platforms all end at buffers, meaning the locomotive would be 'trapped' by the coaches. My question is how did the trains 'turn around' to come back north? Was...

I remember this station being partially open air. There were three platforms but one was not used and was off limits. Work started in 2000 or 2001 to remodel it for the Tyne and Wear Metro which saw new shops built at street level which completely covered it over. On entering the station from...

I would just ban retail parks outright. The depress the life out of me! Put shops back on to the high street where they belong and bring our town centres back to life. I'd ban all TV shows which involve the combination of talent, judging and public votes.

Yes its just an automatic assumption I have made.

Also any restrictons which require businesses to close will also require the furlough scheme to be brought back.

So this announcement comes on a day where there are 39567 cases - 10.5K lower than yesterday. Hospital figures also still falling. I had been concerned the recent rise above 50k was this variant already spreading. Lets hope the 3 week is just to monitor figures, and measures are relaxed again...

I'm no expert but if the Indian variant is much more transmissible, it would infect a lot more people at once, and therefore run out of people to infect much quicker. Would this not mean the spikes in cases will be rather short lived and we would reach herd immunity quicker? Moray is starting...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-53736087 This was on the BBC earlier today. And yep you guessed it they suggest wearing a face covering.

Also Jesmond - West Jesmond and Gateshead - Gateshead Stadium Also on the Tees Valley Line there is Redcar Central and Redcar East

I say good to all these people. It shows the government the general public are fed up of restrictions and won't put up with being told what to do anymore. And I don't see it extending the lockdown as it's less than 14 days until the next stage so too soon for any impact on the data.

I'm wondering who the 'Whitehall Source' is. For all we know it could be a cleaner who has overheard something. Or it could be someone over exaggerating on what has actually been discussed to get a more sensational story. Also until Autumn could be anytime between September and December.