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What gives you the right to judge that, given that you are not doing his job?

It was nothing sinister intended: I started by typing "a woman preventing entrance to" then realised the word employee was also needed to clarify it wasn't just a random female from somewhere else.

Interesting to me that the same media who told us a few years ago before Brexit that we were an insignificant, toothless, powerless speck of a nation and had to stay with the EU, are now pushing hard for us to "lead the Western world and show the way" into sanctions and more practical action...

I had the "no lanyard equals no exemption" rubbish from a woman employee (who evidently revelled in the chance to tell everyone what to do) preventing entrance to a tourist spot cafe in Wales not so long ago. I suggested she should look up the meaning of the sunflower lanyard (Hidden...

The other interpretation is that "a visit to a Lost Property Office would show you that despite being constantly reminded, people still don't take their luggage with them."

Looks like that was indeed a train (which formed a service back to Pwllheli later). The Barmouth to Fairbourne times alone would be nowhere near achievable by road.

I thought a couple of weeks ago GoFundMe had removed the Canadian Trucker fundraising from their site and refunded donations (after initially trying to unlawfully withhold and divert them to other causes)...

The Rugby-Coventry section also is 125 mph max for high speed Multiple Units, the funny thing being that, along with Bushbury-Stafford, a non-tilt Pendolino can only do 100 or 90 respectively, as not classed as a Multiple Unit.

Yes, there should really have been a lot more trains stuck without power/derailed/damaged/broken, so that restoring a normal service would have been much easier with even fewer serviceable trains afterwards. Plus all the passengers on those stranded trains would have been content in the...

Don't take this as complete gospel but I have it on good authority that Avanti are now not running anything into or out of Wales tomorrow.

Don't know about anyone else but I'd find an hour or more on a Tube train extremely uncomfortable, and that's if I was fortunate enough to get one of the few seats. Given that National Rail trains are designed for longer journeys and distances, as well as to carry more passengers "in comfort"...

The biggest quality of life improvement might just be the removal of the awful large "ears" that every standard class seat had in favour of a more slimline feature. When walking through the train those ears had a tendency to either bash your funny bone, stick you in the ribs or cause any...

You are of course entirely welcome to think that, and taken in solo I would agree. But my point was using him as just one example. There is a trend these days for people to shut out and refuse to listen to anyone with whom they disagree or find unlikeable, which has a rather undesirable effect...

Yes, we should only listen to people with whom we agree. Sorry but that sort of reasoning is what's led us to the extreme polarisation of views and the cancelling of anything we don't like hearing. A dislike of a person, or even some of his/her views, shouldn't lead to all of their opinions...

I suppose the thing is this (based on my personal knowledge of a family member who is vulnerable): she avoided places like restaurants and busy shops whether or not restrictions were in place, because she knew that the "restrictions" were not going to prevent the possibility of her becoming...

How bizarre - someone who has been shielding for two years could hardly make their world any smaller. A friend of mine who was kept off work due to shielding (he'd had cancer and the treatment for it recently) decided he had had quite enough of it and came back earlier than necessary, with the...

Hmm. Lucy D'Orsi doesn't have quite the same puntential as a name.

To be fair shift work is part and parcel of any depot in any case - I think for reasons as you say (two depots to cover - even three if Crewe Carriage Sidings is included), plus the earliest departures and latest arrivals, it just makes Wolverhampton the most extreme of the Avanti depots. But...

One concern not mentioned here is that of someone who successfully does the rules and theory side, and indeed the traction theory and depot stuff, but then has a complete meltdown once they get out on the sharp end and start actually driving the things. Pretty rare I imagine but I do know of it...

Part of the issue is that there is no standardisation between train types. As an example, full service brake (the one used for a running brake test or in snow, and also when rapid deceleration is needed) is Step 3 on the brake controller on a 158, but Step 6 on a 390, and on a 220/221 there is...