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I'm afraid that's not true - hundreds of freight services (the 'auto called' schedules referred to by Spartacus above) are activated automatically whether they are booked to run or not. If they don't run, they will eventually be flagged as cancelled on RTT: "This service was cancelled due to a...

Nice graph, but would you be kind enough to explain how NZ can ever open up their borders to visitors/tourists (i.e. no mandatory testing or quarantine) without causing hundreds, if not thousands of deaths - surely you see that?? Exactly! They've painted themselves into a corner where they...

Correct! https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:H64579/2021-07-12/detailed MARK

Out of curiosity, how do such people mange to work during the July/August school holidays, when their children are at home for six weeks?? I thought pension payments changed over to having to be paid into a bank account, rather than being issued in cash a few years ago? MARK

Further to BigB's informative reply above, this is what the train looks like: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tayrail/51245611890/ MARK

And I suppose you are convinced that wearing masks is 'super easy; barely an inconvenience'? ;) (apologies to anyone who doesn't get the reference!) MARK

Further to my last reply, just to prove me wrong... https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/HULLDCT/2021-07-13/0000-2359 MARK

I thought young people were terrified of 'Long Covid'?? :| MARK

Further to LA50041's reply, both locos were on 6Z29 this morning! MARK

No - it was only a short term flow due to production issues at Rylstone Quarry; Dairycotes gets all it's stone from Rylstone again now. There are no regular freight services to or from Goole at the moment; the sand train stopped running a couple of months ago and steel traffic is very...

Sounds like the set up for the plot of a disaster film to me... (image is the movie poster for the film 'The Cassandra Crossing') MARK

It seems that one of the 'worrying new symptoms' of the Delta variant is chronic diarrhoea... ...verbal diarrhoea, that is!:rolleyes: MARK

Yes - work was carried out a couple of months ago: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/cornton-level-crossing.216762/ MARK

That will be a weedkilling train (MPV) MARK

69002, perhaps? (an educated guess rather than definite gen!) MARK

Please define "a bit longer" - three weeks to flatten the curve perhaps?! o_O Fixed that for you... It's real shame that some people on this forum can't see the mental health problems that the pandemic restrictions and media scaremongering have caused for people of all ages.:frown: MARK

After being DMU-operated for many weeks due to the ongoing class 68 issues, I'm pleased to report that the above Saturday/Sunday services were loco-hauled this weekend. :smile: MARK

1Z95 (the return is 1Z96) MARK

Here you go: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101183880-tunnel-to-hindon-from-fonthill-park-fonthill-gifford MARK

Meanwhile, England currently has 13,000 cases a day without having to 'shut the joint down' or impose random snap lockdowns for a dozen cases... o_O Time will tell which is the best approach, but as it stands I'd rather be up here than down under... MARK