Recent content by Mathew S

Many people are comparing the risk of a weather-caused incident on the road, should one choose to make one's journey by driving, and the risk of a weather-caused incident on a train. As rightly pointed out, humans are bad at assessing probability (e.g., people who play the National Lottery), and...

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Worth adding that a difference in response at any given location and on any given day may have nothing to do with the nature of the unattended bag, and everything to do with other information which, for obvious reasons, the public wouldn't be aware of.

Just wondering if anyone has any info they can share about how this service will work (frequency, etc.)?

I mean, they'd still have had to cross the river at some point. Some things never change :D

Oh, possibly. I hadn't noticed that Watford Junction has been added as a stop on the via Birmingham Avanti's. Yes, that might actually be one way of solving the crossing-London issue. Thank you!

Thank you all, very much appreciated.

Looking for some journey planning advice / suggestions. My (older) parents, one of whom now uses a wheelchair for anything more than short distances, have been invited to a wedding in Uckfield on the Saturday of the August Bank Holiday weekend. They're no longer able to travel by car, and would...

Nothing more than a semi-educated guess... but the timeline for the Botley Rd works is now to fully replace the bridge during a second extended closure in 2024. So perhaps it's simply a case of get something done now to get the route reopened and then use the time when the line is going to be...

Is there not still ticket acceptance on the X32 and X2? They run late, and are pretty frequent.

Remember that, from next Tuesday 11th April, the big car park will not be accessible from Botley Rd. In fact, none of the station car parks will. This is due to the road closure to begin the bridge replacement works. Trying to run the RRB's into the city centre up Abingdon Rd, around past the...

Just for context, we've had flood warnings in Abingdon for some weeks. The Thames and Ock have been higher than I have seen at any time since I moved down here two years ago. Tesco was closed the last two days because it was flooded. In short, yes, it's been very, very, very wet indeed. Not my...

A lot of the detail is yet to be finally confirmed in any public documents, as far as I'm aware. As for journalists; certainly when I worked in Manchester, the portions of the relevant council meetings were exclusive of the public & journalists on grounds of commercial sensitivity so there was...

Given he commutes (or at least did when I lived 'up North') by train himself on a regular basis, I'm certain he's not that daft.

It sounds like subsidising services, with an agreement to introduce integrated (contactless) ticketing. Politically, it would probably make more sense for any local specification of (local, as opposed to TPE style long distance) services to remain within the bounds of devolved regions. That...