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The public footpath at Leighton Buzzard is currently diverted over the older of the station footbridges during the ongoing maintenance of the public footpath bridge.

Put it in an empty and dry 10 litre air tight plastic paint can, it will then keep for years until you can make concrete plans on what to do with it. Also spare emulsion paint put it in an air tight glass jar and it will keep for over a decade, just in case you need to do some paint patching in...

Something interesting that was said to me today was that the Covid restrictions were governed by the Public Health Control of Disease act 1984. This however does not apply to properties of the Crown Estate which includes Downing Street. So while the Police can dish out fines to their hearts...

I wonder about the economics of the swap scheme as it must be costing quite a bit to run. Would they perhaps have done better to just introduce the bar coded stamps then after six months or so start taking a closer look at the now rarer non bar coded stamps to look for signs of forgery or reuse.

Its not as there has been anything happening lately to increase government expenditure and decrease their taxation revenue. It is just those dastardly Conservatives putting up taxes for the sake of it. If only Labour were in power as they would no doubt be cutting taxes and increasing social...

Is that what people call a window of opportunity?

If you were to allow stations that closed before the wires went up and stations where the still open section is on a different ELR/line to the closed part where the wires are there are more than ten just between Euston and Rugby. Primrose Hill LEC1 South Hampstead Queens Park. (Still used...

In some ways is the fact that the main thing the Labour party have to complain about is a party months ago, not a sort of endorsement of everything else Boris has done. As otherwise I would have thought that they would be complaining about something more substantive. As for the element of...

Like a lot of things this varies from place to place, also known as a Metal Micky.

I was working through a station once re-railing and we had the barrow crossing up. A train arrived and departed from the middle island platform, to which we paid little attention. A few minutes later a man in a wheelchair approached us and asked how he was supposed to get off the platform. The...

No the element of hypocrisy involved in breaking laws you have yourself set, for all to follow makes this worse than just plain wrong. As if some random person doing the thing is wrong doing, then doing the same wrong by breaching rules you set yourself compounds the matter. Although I do...

While morally wrong, I do wonder about the practicalities of the matter if all those involved had already spent all day working in the same office.

Had a card through the door a while ago from the Post Office wanting a £1 for an under stamped parcel. So I put a £1 worth of stamps on the card and sent it back to the sorting office which is about four or five miles away. A week later the parcel was delivered I can only assume that the postman...

My personal best (1980's) also on a dodgy renewal was 36 hrs Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon, the Mrs was most unimpressed when I rang up after 18 or so hours to say that I would not be home that night, and let slip that I still had food and drink as I had not had a break yet. She did...

This winter has been quite mild so I have only used about 20 units of electricity for heating, so not sure how much insulation 5 units would pay for. As for wood burning stoves I live in the countryside, and the main effect of a wood burning stove would be to reduce the amount of wood I burn due...

I am not sure that additional home insulation would be that worth while, likely to be hugely expensive and governments of either persuasion would farm it out to dodgy contractors, and cause people all sorts of problems. Such as the common problem of damp after cavity wall insulation etc. Also I...

That is a relief as I was in two minds if I should post that recollection just in case I had imagined it. It being a long while ago and I have worked a very large number of very long night shifts since those halcyon days when BR's site staffs whole existence was a safety violation according to...

I remember seeing men working off ladders adjusting the wires on the Midland Line electrification in the early 1980's between trains. When a train came into sight the lookout man took down the ladder and left the men standing on the contact wire. Done with a 20MPH TSR so obviously safety was...

Would be somewhat amusing if derivatives of the Bindenburg ended up running to the nearest station to Cardington.

I am not sure that a short chord line through the Cambridge Sidings and TMD would work. The flyover lines and Bedford Bletchley cross at an angle of less than 90', OK the Bedford lines curve into this and by starting further back you get a squarer angle, but the available land that can be used...