Recent content by maire23

Wouldn’t Washington come under the category of ‘doesn’t have a railway station but close to a settlement that does’ i.e Sunderland?

When I was going to work the other day the staff at Nottingham station were busy putting up some information boards with the EMR branding. I spotted a re-branded train as early as last Friday.

Really? I get the train to and from Nottingham 5 days per week and I’ve not noticed a problem?

EMT Twitter are annoying a lot of people. They’re just copying and pasting stock responses to everyone whether appropriate or not. I have just asked them whether the local service from Leicester to Nottingham (the Lincoln Central Service) will be okay tomorrow as I need to get to work. Their...

Also if it’s your second if it’s an approved ‘exemption’ subject (STEM or nursing) I’m doing a Combined STEM (bit like an Open Degree but just STEM subjects- this also covers the Social Sciences, my pathway is Sports Psychology) this is my second undergrad (3rd degree in total as I have an MA...

I have an OU degree and I’m on my second now. The degree certificate comes by post; you can choose to attend any OU graduation ceremony after your degree is conferred or none at all; I live in Leicester but I attended the ceremony at Gateshead Sage as I am from Newcastle and my family live...

When I studied Law GBH meant something serious like a broken bone (admittedly this was 20 years ago at A Level) And my previous nursing career tells me that an injury requiring multiple hospital appointments and surgery as it has is not a minor cut! Sounds to me like a complex fracture which I...

I got a bus pass for anxiety (although it was more because at one stage I used to have panic attacks so bad that I had fits) so it’s not always that clear cut. I have one automatically now as I get enhanced rate mobility PIP but the ironic thing is I can now drive a car (I’ve not had a fit in a...

Totally with you on this one. If someone gives up their seat for me I will always either say thank you or at the very least I will nod and smile (I have very bad social anxiety so I can’t always speak coherently) Manners cost nothing!

As a retired mental health nurse, who also suffers with mental health problems and provides emotional support to my fiancé who is quite disabled by his mental health problems- I was very interested in this and it was very thought provoking. I am studying psychology too but I hadn’t thought of...

I was on LNER train once that was extremely busy. I had booked Passenger Assist and I had a reserved seat. I was assisted on and into my seat at Peterborough, and soon after leaving Peterborough a woman came along with a big family group and told me to move as my seat ‘was hers’ I politely said...

There are some motorway service stations that are very good but few and far between. Gloucester service station is fantastic- it has a farm shop which sells fresh produce from local farms and their handmade pasties are sublime. Far nicer than the usual Ginsters type fare.

When the display which shows the stations etc inside the carriage shows a totally different service. I got on the Leicester-Birmingham New Street train last Sunday but according to the display we were going from Nottingham to Cardiff Central!

This thread has cracked me up :D I would have to say Ardal O’Hanlon as Father Dougal McGuire or Dame Edna Everage :D

I was on the 0924 LEI-STP this morning and it was slightly delayed, but only by a couple of minutes. It did state on the screens ‘a problem under investigation’ and I did wonder what the issue was.