Recent content by IslandDweller

As noted above, your choice is much restricted if you are going to use a debit card. And taking the additional insurance is usually mandatory, but if it is only a one day hire that shouldn't be punitive. Check age restrictions. If you're young, that can add more restrictions (and cost) and...

As a user of this forum, I am probably more familiar with rail ticketing foibles than the average member of the public - but I am nowhere near the expert that some on here are. I do use trainline sometimes because it is so slick and simple. This is especially important when trying to book at...

I flew into Gatwick this afternoon and was looking to catch the diversionary train to Victoria just after 1700. I read this forum so I knew I would not have a simple journey. Oh dear me, the station was mayhem. Entry gates locked, big crowds, zero annoucements or information. The staff I...

I moved to the Isle of Dogs one week before the DLR opened, and have been using it ever since. Overruns are not normal (in most people's understanding of the term) but nor are they unknown. When the system was brand new, using the single car stock that was long ago shipped to Germany, overruns...

"According to the TfL track closures, there are 6 weekends in the next 6 months" But is this to be trusted? The recent weekend closures of the DLR have been sprung on us at quite short notice (from memory, barely a month notice). Given the radio silence on progress with the new trains...

Access to Braystones is via half a mile of single track, unsurfaced, unadopted road. So far as I can tell, it is open to the public but there are no passing places (so meet something coming the other way and one of you has a very long reversing maneouver) and the turning space at Braystones...

I am willing to be shot down if someone has better knowledge / better photos. But from what I can make out in the photos I've seen, that appears to be a late(ish) model Vauxhall Combo van. And that model has an electronic parking brake (a little button by the dash mounted gear lever). It...

But to add context. The EUR-GLC train journey, even with a few delays, is still way faster than a road journey. We drove from Glasgow to east London yesterday. The driving time was 8 hours but of course you have to stop for comfort breaks, so add that on and it was nine hours. I lost count...

302 from Helensburgh to Carrick Castle. Runs alongside Loch Lomond to Tarbet, alongside Loch Long for a couple of miles near Arrochar, then over the Rest and Be Thankful pass, then on single track roads down to and alongside Loch Goil.

Which site have you used to determine that these are cancelled? The places I have checked don't show any planned cancellations.

I lived next to Island Gardens at the time the Lewisham extension was being planned and subsequently constructed. At that time, I was a Director of the Residents Management Company for my development, and in that capacity I attended liaison meetings between the CGL Project team and local...

The endless potential journeys, non of which I am likely to do, seemed pointless. So I gave up

Spotted on the Calmac ferry to the Scottish island of Gigha. A small VW with plate G1GHA. I'm guessing it's a regular on that ferry!

Euston to Glasgow. More than once on that route too

Many of the forward bookings for the Jacobite are from tour operators, who include a ride on the train as park of their package. I know that at least one of them is extremely frustrated and unimpressed with the shenanigans at West Coast. They've got thousands of guests across the 2024 season...