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Given that we (almost) have a re-unified railway now, why don't they just say "travel by any reasonable or practicable route?"

Yesterday's collapse seems to have put a bomb under them (maybe an unfortunate simile) but their performance today has been astonishingly good - up to mid-day. I saw about half a dozen cancellations/terminating or starting short, and about the same again p.m. (Using RTT for BHM selecting XC...

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:R56937/2026-08-24/detailed 0K46 1227 Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs) to Daventry Drs (Tesco) looks promising...

shouldn't that decision have been made at the start? i.e. the risk to the business which started from day 1, or the first day they moved into that building.

This is a novel incident... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g6nd3x0ppo has:

could they buy back something from elsewhere in Europe that might have "Grandfather rights?" I think that when we went from Malta to Gozo a decade (or 3) ago the ferry actually had rails in the [car]deck and signs in Dutch directing Fietsers up onto the sides - what would have been the sponsons...

stop trying to wind me up! I have a seat and a bike booked on one of the Brimingham-Scotland trains tomorrow to meet up with family for an overnight excursion, luckily https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/travel-information/train-times/crewe/carlisle says it will all be OK...

but weren't there problems with the Corran ferry meaning no service a while ago? I imagine that could be an equally basic vessel, how many such short crossings are there? p.s. I see that there is a webcam for the queues at both ends of the Corran Ferry, and you can see the ferry come and go at...

That would be one thing that would have to change, but I imagine there must be a combination of robust engines and good maintenance and engineer training which would be reliable? Cumbrae's navigation stuff must be up-to-date, I wonder how simple the steering gear is?

Any chance they could order another 2 or 3 identical? Minimal fancy bits to go wrong and low technology wherever it is allowed might make for a successful design... Maybe Ferguson's could even make one that worked?

I think it was a standard BS alloy, and the cadmium makes it a bit harder (wear resistant.)

That's interesting. ISTR that the first thing to do is grab a sack, soak it and fill it with something wet and stuff it up the chimney to starve the fire of air...

in which case you just let go and saw it disappear up the chimney in flames. Not a problem if the thing had been kept swept, but if it was encrusted with soot... Our semi-detached neighbours had a chimney fire once, it was really dramatic, roaring up the flue and out of the pot at the top. I...

Gas pokers worked very well, and (maybe by coincidence) removed a lot of nasty smoke caused by people lighting up with all sorts of rubbish. We had one for the Parkray with a back-boiler when we moved into a Victorian house in 1978, and in addition the kitchen gas stove was originally...

...and the militant Welsh Nationalists... (objecting to second homes taking property prices out of reach of the locals.)

I wonder if we are seeing the outcomes predicted in the attached document - but worse as the funding for some of their mitigations has been cut? "Safety aspects of asset degradation can be mitigated by extra maintenance!"

They would/could use it for a service in the morning before the SVR start running, then resume their normal working and signal the evening train themselves... It would avoid the "cost" of extending their signal box hours.

illustrated in https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/trump-south-korea-alliance?CMP=GTUK_email

and they haven't got any BEMUs yet either...!

I well remember being on trains on the continent, probably French couchettes - but day trains as well, and noting the dum-dum-dum rhythm, rather than diddly da! I knew we weren't in a 12-wheel coach so I concluded it was from staggered rail joints. Their track maintenance must have been good as...