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Does feedback to GWR get forwarded to the relevant staff members? I experienced two absolutely excellent examples of customer service the past couple of days and am minded to write to the company, but only if it results in the people involved getting a pat on the back. If they'll never know I...

Whilst travelling to Carlisle yesterday I saw an odd siding a couple.of miles to the east of Haltwhistle (I think). It diverged from the Carlisle bound track, and had a number of signal posts labelled "A" "B" etc. Mounted on the top of those posts are round heads that looked to hold about 10...

I'm on 1S18, which arrived Peterborough a few minutes late behind the more heavily delayed 1S17. 1S18 calls York, Darlington, Newcastle, Berwick, Edinburgh. 1S17 has a lot more stops. They let the stopper go first at Peterborough, we then sat waiting for it to leave Doncaster before passing...

So I've been watching with interest the work to expand the car park at Attleborough. So far this has consisted of tree felling, vegetation clearance and demolition of a couple of small derelict buildings associated with the goods yard that disappeared decades ago. Since then they have been...

I may need to travel to Sleaford next week in relation to my work. The normal services I would use (haven't done the journey since March last year) all appear to be running. However there is a note on all the journey planners saying there is a one way system in operation at Peterborough and to...

As per title. As far as I know it's complete and is actually in full working order, so why is it stuffed and mounted? Particularly when all of the other preserved deltics are currently either awaiting repair or have issues such as only 1 operational power unit? Many years ago it was a static...

As a counterpoint to the most over the top restrictions thread, I thought it might be nice to shine a little ray of light on things which suggest we might be getting our collective sense back. I was cheered to see today that the self-service bread slicing machine has returned in my local...

Could a steam-hauled railtour operate to/from Liverpool Street or is it classed as an 'underground' station and therefore banned to steam? I'd love to travel behind one of the Britannias between Norwich and London.

Mods, feel free to move this if it ought to be in another section. As part of my work, I'm trying to get shipping quotes for moving 5,000te of baled biomass from Poland (area west and south of Gdansk) to the UK. This is proving tricky. Lorries across the continent are an option but very...

I may need to go to Poland for work related reasons next week. Poland is not on the travel corridor list and I would need to self-isolate for 2 weeks upon return unless one of the exemptions in law applies. I think one of them does, however the problem is that all of the exemptions are worded...

This news report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54643652 prompted a Facebook discussion between me and some of my old uni mates. It's just round the corner from when we used to live whilst at uni. I made a comment "welcome to the police state" when it was posted on...

Bit of an odd one this... I bought an AEG induction cooker about 7 years ago. Fabulous cooker, all touch controls for the 4 hob spots and ovens, which means no knobs sticking out the front to collect muck or entice toddlers to fiddle with them. But it has a flaw, the main oven door hinge design...

As part of my professional life, I'm looking at purchasing 5,000te of baled agricultural produce in Poland, and moving it to the UK for use. One option is to truck it across the continent, but that works out at £2,500 per 20te load, so is completely uneconomic (as well as environmentally...

Noticed recently that Tesco are steadily removing the country of origin for a lot of products. Everything from fresh produce to tinned foods and nappies, that information is slowly disappearing. Doesn't seem to be happening at any other supermarkets. I'm curious as to why they are doing this...

I watched Boris' performance yesterday afternoon. It's clear that strategy goes no further than "do what Chris [Whitty] says and add in a bit of made up stuff about mass testing technology that doesn't exist yet to give people a bit of hope for the next few months". I respect Chris Whitty, he...

Has anyone else noticed that https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ hasn't been working for a few days? There were "technical problems" which were allegedly fixed, but ever since then the the pages just show "N/A" for all the figures and the charts are blank. What's going on?

I find myself wondering why this route was converted to a private haul road by ECC. Given a lot of the china clay traffic was and is transported by rail, wouldn't it have made more sense to retain the branch as a private railway?

Took my 6 year old to the IoW yesterday. We flew into Bembridge and walked to Brading, very pleasant walk other than the first quarter mile along the road. The advertised 2 train service wasn't running, just one train in service but there was no way of knowing this at Brading. Allegedly there's...

I thought it might be useful to start a thread listing possible destinations for those of us who don't think the prospect of face masks by the pool and on the beach are very appealing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53249747 Well, perhaps it's just me, but "holidaying" under such conditions...

This is a very long shot, but if there's anywhere that might come up with the answer, it's here! Back in about 2010 I travelled on an AVE between Seville and Madrid. The film that was shown was an American comedy, subtitled in Spanish. All I can remember is that is involved 2 detective/secret...