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Many individuals in tthe UK population have either minimised their infection risk by vaccine, by surviving the infection or pursuing a pattern of strict self-isolation. The remaining citizens may have chosen to "keep calm and carry on" or are awaiting their opportunity to be vaccinated. These...

A "system" is an intangible concept. It is the fault of the person/team who designed, implemented and tested the procedures.

No, sorry. I’ve just downloaded the timetable. My mistake.

I’m trying to purchase an advance ticket GRT - WAT and it the journey says I have to change at BSK even though I’m already on a WAT direct? Is this correct and why?

I have written elsewhere about my journeys from 1950's Paddington to Neath (unaccompanied, labelled and "kept an eye on" by someone my dad gave half-a-a crown). Liverpool Street in the late fifties had a huge impact on me. After Paddington's dingy but tidy ambience, Liverpool Street was an...

Thank you for your video. I lived in the centre of the "village" for twenty years arriving in 1978. The pit was still working. Many of its miners had moved down from Tyneside after the coalfields there were abandoned. "Geordie" was the dominant accent in the local pubs and, of course, The...

Brought up in SW London, "north" started when I crossed Wandsworth Bridge into alien Fulham. Fast foward to 1968 and my first RAF posting to Topcliffe (between Thirsk and Ripon). Four of us shared a car journey up the A1 and were all equally bemused by a traffic sign at the Retford junction that...

We are installing a "proper" recharging outlet as part of a major renovation partly for when we purchase our next car *CR-V hybrid current favourite) plus an assumption that more friends and family will arrive requiring a recharge/top-up. Then I thought: hang on a minute... I will be paying...

Sacked. Ejected from the party and tthn be rejected as a parliamentary election candidte in the imminent by-election.

In the 70s & 80s I used to commute frequently between St P to Nottingham 17:45 or 18:10 and ate dinner on board (real food too!). When first intrduced the 17:45 125 fast down was retimed to Leicester in about one hour. The poor senior dining car attendant needed a skateboard to get the service...

I have a three-node Linksys Velop m 1624174042 ... Velop mesh rhrough our sprawling old cottage and new-build extention. It is linked directly to our Virgin router and has just told me (Speedtest") that I am running at 600+mbps. I have "bridged" it so there is just one SSID across the property...

If I have to reach Ripon without a daughterly collection (that pesky day job) then I will always choose Harrogate and the excellent 36 bus from outside the station. I can walk the last leg. It's being offered a Thirsk collection that prompted my original enquiry.

Sorry for the lack of info. I was thinking out on a Thursday and back on a Tuesday. Not bothered about time provided that I'm back at Basingstoke by 20:00-ish. Happy to commit to a fixed time out and back. Not overly bothered about the upgrade to first (I noticed an upgade offered ex-KGX on...

I need to travel to from Basingstoke to Ripon and am aware that there is no station in Ripon anymore!! However, i do have the choice of being collected from either Thirsk or Harrogate and am not fussy as to which. I am also not fussy whether or not my journey is via Waterloo and Kings Cross or...

...and the totally-counterproductive Big 4 rivalry that stifled any hope of a coherent national infrastructure plan. "Silo thinking" writ large. These rivalries persisted well into the sixties amongst "the old guard". From John Nelson's "Losing Track" opening chapter (in 1968): "Neither had...

Oxford livery was stunning

Two 12yo playing on the railway mid-evening with no parental supervision during COVID restrictions. in the current climate, I regret that I would not approach them directly but would find platform staff to investigate. speculation doesn’t help here. As a parent and grandparent such comments...

Nah! THE project of the year has got to be me finally completing my youngest grandson's model railway (to see if I can infect him courtesy of 00-gauge Thomas the Tank Engine). It competes with Crossrail for delays (but not costs).

All about the Kingsway tunnel:

Aye, right enough. Those Bishopwearmouth folk are a bit strange.:s