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I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that they do plan to reinstate it. Off to have a look now.

Yes, double-stacked. But not 22m coaches, 25 or 26m like the Class 805.

I think that might be a little pessimistic. I had a look at some capsule hotels and the units tend to be around 1.25m high by 1.0m wide. You should be able get something like 34 to 36 units in a standard carriage, especially if the couchettes only ran on the Lowland Sleeper since the loading...

It's likely but not definite. As a general rule I only answer calls from numbers that I recognise (not that I get many calls in the first place).

While that is true, backup batteries for routers are not expensive. You can get one that will provide an hour or two of backup power for under £30, which would be enough to get you though most power outages. Naturally, prices increase in line with capacity.

And in that five or six minutes one could have self-scanned and left. Customer choice. To be honest, I'm not surprised about this from ASDA as their customer service and general quality seems to be on the slide, based on my local locations. The larger Tesco locations here always have at least...

I suspect that in this day and age shared cabin fares would mostly serve to encourage people to upgrade to solo. I don't know about others but I feel much more comfortable in a shared six or eight-bed hostel room (and still often doo) than I would sharing with just one stranger.

I'm not 100% sure about shared cabins, but couchettes were definitely a missed opportunity.

It appears that according to DJT, 16 is old if you're a girl that he wants to ogle, but 35 is young if you're DJT... Source: thepoke.com Only thing is, Donald Trump was 35 years old in 1982 when the Falklands war happened! It's becoming increasingly clear that his grip on reality is tenuous...

Interestingly, I was able to get a rotary phone to work with a BT Broadband Voice router supplied as recently as 2015. No idea what's happened since as I left BT in 2017 but I wouldn't be surprised if some routers still supported pulse dialling, even unofficially.

I don't believe it has yet. There was a story on the BBC website a few days back where an Ember representative was bemoaning that it hadn't been thought through completely and so they were asking for a review before implementation. Edit: Here's the story -...

That's disappointing. And potentially a huge cost to the railway, not to mention a hassle to the customer who ends up waking up miles away from where they wanted to be!

A good example of this being Barbados, where the copper network has been completely closed, but the vast majority of the copper has simply been left in place rather than recovering it to make the supposed vast profits. If anything, the scrap metal thieves... sorry, independent contractors have...

My parents are of similar vintage (Dad is 83, Mum will be 82 this year). They've adopted digital technology to differing degrees. Mum is quite happy to hope on to Facebook to see what's happening in the family, and uses online banking for most of her transactions. Dad uses the computer for...

You are correct and have missed nothing.

I've not travelled on the Sleeper in a while (back in Mk 3 days) but I'd be very surprised if they've stopped doing this on a regular basis. Unless confirmed by someone else, I'll assume that @Swedenorer either didn't hear the wake-up knock or it was a one-off omission as the knock was usually...

This can't be stressed enough. Unlike things like the Amazon convenience stores, there's always a staffed checkout as well so you're free to line up there and wait instead.

My local Primark does, yes. They still have some staffed check-out desks as well.

That makes a lot more sense!

Well, that's just stupid. I wonder if you could scan out with a Nectar card barcode?