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It’s avoid non-essential travel. Even during lockdown trains ran because some people have to travel. Something as “simple” as last day of holiday and vital medication at home…

Likewise since Tuesday - not that there’s been much traffic to sit in!

To find a fair comparison you’re looking for a country which: 1. Has a railway network with similar traffic density and service frequency 2. Has a comparable expectation of safe operation 3. Has a comparable operational profile in terms of speed 4. Has to cope with a similar temperature range...

Indeed - there is no way of opening the door from outside.

Especially since much of the housing which was going to provide that ridership on the inner stretch has yet to materialise. 1782468072 Just as a comparison, the reopening of the Hermann Hesse Bahn from Weil-der-Stadt to Calw (edge of the Stuttgart S-Bahn - so far from deprived...

Ask the people who live near a popular station that doesn’t have adequate car parking and they’ll tell you.

And I suspect that the differential between this week’s temperatures and “normal extreme temperatures” (if that’s a contradiction in terms) is lower there than here, even if the absolute temperature is higher.

Exactly. Certainly if I’m left in a situation where I can’t quite clear a line /area, I try to arrange it so that the ones I leave are those where a not particularly productive station bashing trip can easily be combined with other things. There is, for example a logic behind the fact that 3 of...

There may well be some early ones where the “resiting” meant completing a branch line rather than having a station miles away on the main line.

If you need a landline for a medical monitor you might as well have a phone attached to it. It can’t be a waste of money (if you already have the phone) because it effectively costs nothing. The other reason I have it is that I am at times the contact number for a group I belong to. None of the...

Yes and no. Clearly if you need to get home, you need to get home. A “do not travel” warning will mean that reputable (and/or well unionised) businesses will find it much harder to refuse requests to work from home, for example. 1782422228 Depends where you are - definitely worse here in...

The flip side is that doing it “inefficiently” can combine well with seeing a lot of interesting places.

Why does the little voice inside my head say “until about 9 months before any of their replacements are ready “?!

With an order book the size of every school in the UK heavily favouring minimising finished product miles, there soon could be!

Not here in Bath it isn’t. It is not unknown in the afternoon peak for three of the four buses on route 2 to arrive in near-enough convoy. Never seen all four in convoy. 1782407363 Various medical monitors work via the landline.

At least you’d be out of the sun!

And your alternative suggestion would be…?

Presumably they mean like Germany with its legally binding max. Temperature (or the school closes). The urban myth amongst pupils is that the thermometer is always placed on the bare floor of a damp room in the cellar.

Indeed - I am including this period as one of the so far rare events. Merely responding to those who are expressing surprise that it hasn’t been done already. Incidentally, wouldn’t be surprised if the prime driver behind a lot of a/c installations in large offices and similar buildings was the...

But it’s not just “trains may be subject to delays /cancellations” - it’s “the whole system may go into meltdown at any moment”. I’ve heeded the advice so don’t know what the conditions were like yesterday, but can’t imagine what it would have been like in the 2-car unit leaving Bristol for Bath...