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We've recently had two scams. One is a series of emails addressed to my wife from "the HR department" about this month's salary payment, or a salary increase. Just click on the button below. The second was a phone call I received from a company called LAX, or possibly ELAX, based in...

Following on from that, members of this forum may recall the discussions that took place after Abellio (now Transport UK) won the Greater Anglia franchise, about how the bid team had included features that the operating side were finding problematic in day-to-day running.

There will be a guarantee on the paint - around 8 years, maybe more. GBR is unlikely to wish to spend money repainting trains before that is up.

Well along the horrible scale. It's the kind of thing graphic designers just love to produce, but it incorporates the worst characteristics of privatised TOC liveries. My view is that a livery should relate to the shape of the object being liveried. In the case of the end cars of Class 800...

I'm really pleased to see several posts pointing out that line closures had been happening for many years before Beeching, who is so often depicted as some kind of monster that did things no-one would otherwise have thought about.

I read some years ago that the bid for the franchise by Stagecoach in 2017 included bi-mode trains for the West of England line. I don't know if they would have been from Hitachi or Stadler. A more recent suggestion has been to fit batteries to some class 450s, with some discontinuous...

If the time was 17.51, passengers at Andover only had to wait 15 minutes for the 1806 to Waterloo. If that was running to time - which may have been one of the factors the controllers took into account - the delay would not have been huge. I appreciate that the impact would vary from one...

That's interesting. But, as with almost everything, there are other relevant factors. These machines would take up some space which therefore cannot be used for seats. As some may remember, when Arriva won the XC franchise in 2007 (?), their bid included the removal of the shop to provide...

They can think what they like, but they may be wrong. Everyone is entitled to like or not like certain types of food. Eating or drinking the ones they like may make them feel good, but that doesn't mean what they've consumed is healthy.

Thanks to both of you for those posts. I shall keep taking the tablets!

It depends on your attitude. Mine is that nothing can be expected to work perfectly, especially when both railways and roads have the maximum or higher amount of traffic. I'm not a commuter, nor a frequent leisure traveller. Most of my journeys are between Whitchurch (Hampshire) and...

Following a recent blood test, I had a phone call from my oncologist who confirmed that my PSA remains undetectable, meaning that my prostate cancer remains under control, as it has been for the past four years. During our discussion, he said he thought I had done extremely well, as when...

There are only five reform MPs, which doesn't provide a basis for any statistically significant conclusions.

The misuse of the word "intuitive" became widespread in the 1990s by the information technology industry. What they really meant was "this is easy to use if you already know how these things work" - similar to what you've suggested in relation to railways. Actually there's usually nothing to...

You need all the relevant technology to make railways as we know them possible. See post #3 for the production of iron rails. Then there's the ability to construct a steam locomotive that can haul a train of wagons or coaches. Construction engineering to build tunnels and embankments, which...

The current Master of the King's Music is Errollyn Warren, a black female composer. But the principal purpose of listening to music is because it's good (which can be for varying reasons, which I won't try to define at this moment), and the music by Florence Price that I've heard seems ordinary...

That reminds me of an incident at a station is SE London several years ago. A young man recently arrived from an Indian subcontinent country got down onto the track to put his ear to the rail to check if a train was coming, as one did where he came from. Unfortunately he touched a conductor...

Similarly, there are post boxes to be found in Malta that still have a British monarch's details. On the boxes in Republic Street in Valletta they've been chiseled off, but in several other places no-one has been bothered about that and they remain as they were before the country became...

As the sign at the top states, this structure also sold postage stamps - many years ago, when there were often similar stamp-selling machines outside post offices. I recall seeing a similar structure to this one in Frodsham, Cheshire in about 1998.

Information appears on the platform screens at stations on the West of England line, but you can't rely on it.