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What conspiracy theories are you talking about? Pointing out that there's zero real world evidence to say that masks make any difference isn't a conspiracy

Maybe I've not been looking hard enough but I can't seem to find any figures for yesterday (Sunday) so is it the case (pardon the pun) that todays are higher because of that? Or did the figures for yesterday go somewhere else

The new ATOS announcements usually announce a fast train very late whereas the old (ditra wasn't it?) Announcements usually gave a decent amount of notice, and yet most TOCs use ATOS, I can only assume it's because it's (relatively) cheap

New Milton I believe was not really near anything when it first opened and was named after a nearby sub post office with the town of New Milton gradually building up around the station

You and I might know that but as @bramling says, that isn't the case for some people and that for some people just looking at them for a few seconds or looking at them in order to look out the window on a train with longitudinal seating such as LO services or the underground would be an issue...

Nearby Chertsey as well I'd say. The line through them isn't particularly heavily used other than when there's engineering work diversions.

I suggest you move to China or North Korea then, you'll be much happier there

Having had a quick look through it doesn't look a whole lot different from the 2019 timetable, except for some peak trains, cutting the Bristol trains and (perhaps unsurprisingly) not running the Weymouth via Salisbury specials, oh and cutting back the Dorking/Guildford via Epsom trains. Kind of...

Went into Tesco express earlier today and most were wearing masks other than me. Rather disappointingly the sign at the front hadn't been updated and still had an (albeit slightly faded) "no mask, no entry" sign

I read on here that there was one called "Ladies Only Travel" which isn't exactly a brilliant name for a bus operator and it's abbreviation (LOT) which I think was usually used makes it sound like a certain Polish airline

There's a bit of a pattern in that it's mostly 7x0 for the Bombardier units and 7x7 for the Siemens units. The main difference being that 700 is a Siemens product (although didn't the DfT run the bidding process for that and it happened to be Siemens that won, could it still have been 700 if...

Admittedly this is starting to get into speculative territory but is there a reason why they don't put on something more similar to the pre December '07 timetable and swap around the Poole semi fast and the Weymouth (and swap the Branksome and Parkstone stops if that makes sense) and have...

That's a pretty blinkered view given there's quite a few older people who realise they don't have much time left anyway and don't want to waste what's left in lockdowns (plus its quite blinkered to think only old people vote Conservative) while there's quite a few younger Labour supporters who...

Well someone had better not tell him how many people die every day even before covid, otherwise he might never leave his house again. He seems to have forgotten that living has a 100% death rate

"Lickey Voyager" (2005): Currently arriva cross country (no longer Virgin) Filton 4-tracking Wires around Bristol parkway Extra platforms at Bristol parkway Resited Bromsgrove station Wires up the Lickey incline Redevolped Birmingham New Street station Different XC service pattern HSTs back on...

I saw a birds nest at London Road (Guildford) station last July, there was a young one in there as well.

There's quite a few seaside town stations which I'd say feel quite faded, stations such as Southend Victoria, Skegness and Bognor Regis (although you could probably say that about the whole town for Bognor)

Indeed, I seem to remember Norbiton as being another SWR station with a big gap, at least on the London (via Wimbledon) side

Chobham in Surrey has a station road for a station that was never built despite there being plans for lines through there twice

I think another thing that is overlooked is that all of this is banking on increasing passenger numbers, something which there is no guarantee of, especially since we've started to see them level off already in places