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Fall-back option: re-lay some track towards Macclesfield and turn it into a heritage railway.

In a TV interview on 12th March, England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Jenny Harries, had this to say about face masks: "What tends to happen is people will have one mask. They won’t wear it all the time, they will take it off when they get home, they will put it down on a surface they...

The 24th is ten days away: time for them to do three U-turns before then. If there is enough pushback they might relent.

About 240,000 people work in the railway sector yet on a typical day in July only about 635,000 passenger journeys were made. Wow, one employee per 2.5 passenger journeys: that's a mightily labour-intensive industry. Smith said some operators had “over-interpreted” government advice I...

There is a hygiene issue with people frequently touching a mask (adjusting it, putting it on, taking it off etc) and then touching other surfaces.

Are eyes also a potential conduit for infections getting into the body? If so, we also need to think about goggles...

The elites know our craving for respectability. And that is a mechanism by which they enslave us.

An article opposing face masks: https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202007091079836506-why-wearing-face-masks-shouldnt-be-made-compulsory-in-the-uk/ "We need at this stage to be getting back to the old, February 2020 normal, not consenting to an anti-human, New Abnormal."

Use the car parks as a giant park-and-ride for commuting into Manchester. Convert the interior to a standby Nightingale hospital and a socially-distanced college. Sorted!

The Sun is the original source of the Guardian article which the OP linked to.

In the Sun account of the incident the man was discovered by a cleaner at the depot. Even with a coronavirus regime, shouldn't there have been a walk-through of the train to check it was clear before going out of passenger service?

Good programme - I enjoyed it. It was slightly weird though, given all the discussion about increasing capacity that, unbeknown to the participants at the time, events were about to take a dramatic turn in another direction.

My emphasis - I'm sure that's right but it is not what is usually said publicly by the HS2 marketing fraternity: instead, generally some guff about regenerating the north.

It would be a bad day if we went completely electronic. It would make it so much easier for the powers-that-be to give us a monetary "haircut".

I've seen a picture of a DMU (class 104) calling at Prestbury on the Macclesfield line in August 1960. More recently, Alderley Edge has been treated to pacers I think!

Antwerpen-Centraal, or somewhere on the London Underground?

That's quick - work was still going on when I was there a month ago! There's great scenery along the line between Derry/Londonderry and Coleraine and, as with most places outside of GB, the train journey is comfortable and pleasant.

The Telegraph reports that: - the Conservatives would adopt the proposals of the Keith Williams review - Transport Secretary Shapps and Williams are agreed that franchising has 'run its course' - there would be changes to ticketing to simplify fares - there would be more local authority...

The 390s are stuck with their small windows. Maybe it's possible to do something with the seating but I'm not sure it would change the overall ambience.

Hurrah - goodbye and good riddance to beardy Branson. In an ideal world the new operator would bin the 390s and replace them with comfortably pleasant trains.