Recent content by Greg Read

But then how many incidents of this kind have there been ?

Well, if there is No Deal as an option, then we will have to put up with whatever they give us, there will be no point arguing, we will just 'agree' to what they demand, bear in mind also that the people of Main Land Europe are also affected, and could suffer job losses and price rises, the...

So, with NO DEAL seemingly off the card, I would say that Europe now has the UK over a barrel, we have no bargaining chips left !

Agree, seems an odd thing to say, I didnt vote leave, but thats what the rest of the Country voted for, so there we have it, but we did survive for 1975 years without being in the EU and we were OK, and of course we never actually voted to join the EU, we sort of just slippedin quietly ! we...

Why do people go on long winter breaks to Spain? Yes, they have a warmer winter, snow is almost unheard of, also the frequency of trains bashing the track is a lot less too, some Main Lines in France may only see 4 or 5 a day !

But a train going from A to C, if the seat is reserved by someone joining at 'B' then anyone can use it up to that point, they cannot 'remain' in that seat after that stop, (that's if it's claimed)

Or buy the 16 -17 card, use it for the 365 days that it vaild, then go back to using the 16 -25 card ?

Red Button for anything local...News / Travel is always way out of date, somne of the news items are there for days, RB nowhere near as good as the old CEEFAX / ORACLE

According the the BBC News this morning, it was the National Grid that had to decide whether to take many households off the grid, or shut down the Power to Network Rail, they took the decision to cut the power to the rail network, they were or are syaing this decision will be looked at in the...

So why was it not arranged for the first game to be an away game ? I am sure it was not beyond the capabilites of the F.A ?

Think they have been termed 'Outages' for some considerable time now, can't see an issue with it :-)

Nothing can match the old BR breakfast :-) also recall having a lovely Chicken dinner on the way to Cornwall on an HST, but that was quite some time ago now,

So reading what the TSSA said ( "Clearly this is an incredibly serious situation which calls for nothing less than the grounding of the entire new Sleeper fleet until we have the full details of the what went wrong. "No one should be playing fast and loose with faulty brakes on our railways...

The thought of no freight on rails and all via road, is the thought of nightmares and a living hell on the roads ! you only have to look at the likes of the M25 / A1 etc where there is just a convoy of lorries with a haze of smoke and fumes behind them, delaying car traffic for miles on end...

Ahh the joys of modern technology :-) a glitch and it all stops !