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The Northern Echo is maybe rather optimistic? If! See; https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/darlington-step-closer-to-direct-brighton-rail-link-as-deal-secured/ar-AA2dmbXW?ocid=BingNewsVerp

Following on in a financial vein, my first bank manager was an old friend of both my father and independently my future father-in-law, in the days when many bank managers played golf on Wednesday afternoons. In those days a manager was expected to rub shoulders with the local business community...

What, a bank with a counter for cash? They're increasingly rare. In many areas you'd be lucky to find a bank to withdraw cash from although you may have used an ATM? The shopkeeper may have had to pay into a Post Office in a Banking Hub.

Fuller details on their website; https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/reducedtimetable

Or drive to the area near South Gosforth or Ilford Road and park free near there to avoid a train change, but still no help in Tynemouth. No, I'd stay in my car all the way for that journey but residents around those two stations are getting totally hacked off because they can't get to park near...

This is a speculative thread:D Maybe we could briefly diverge into a History & Nostalgia thread too, reflecting that in 1894 Buxton was the prime destination offered on the newly opened Hope Valley line west from Sheffield through the Hope Valley. A number of big practical difficulties prevent...

When we had the threatened dam burst at Toddbrook Reservoir at Whaley Bridge all trains on the Buxton and Hope Valley lines were blocked for safety reasons. Northern could have run from Sheffield to Chinley. They didn't because Northern east side crews hadn't route knowledge. (EMR crews had and...

Maybe someone could devise simple technology that would allow the train to identify which side platform it was in and only allow doors on that side to release? (Before someone points it out, I know, platforms like 7 and 2C in Sheffield could be accessed from either side!)

Seems there's major disruption on Elizabeth line and Greater Anglia near Romford due to deer on the line. National Rail saying until end of day! Some long delays. Have a relative trapped on stranded train. Apparently another train hit a deer. Updated information from Greater Anglia website...

Like Swansea and Bristol!

Didn't Burnham win his current seat by playing down Starmer and Labour and playing up himself as Manchester Mayor? If you were a Republican candidate wouldn't you be playing up all your local attributes like mad and avoiding any hints of Trumpism wherever possible? Republican blood flows...

'And a majority of the cabinet' nust be happy to go along with Vance. Would they? We've 2+ years to find out. Over 2 more years!! What a prospect.

It was a long time ago that Trump was giving us warnings of his irrational thinking. His unbalanced campaign to prove Obama was born in Kenya had minimal credibility from the start but he persisted long after the Hawaiian proof had been produced. It was nasty to put it mildly. He's continued...

White coated policemen on point duty in the middle of city crossroads directing traffic in all weathers.

That might be a subject for another thread. In the London area many trains have loading information usefully displayed in all carriages. As an example you can catch a 12 coach Cambridge-Brighton train with space in front and back coaches and rammed full in between for the section through...

EMR's latest update has just been issued to Stakeholders this morning, see; https://eastmidlandsrailway.newswea...xnlw1f3wzioz?lang=en&a=6&p=13337927&t=4918378 See this bit "including the potential to lease additional trains". Unless XC get them first?

EMR's latest update has just been issued to Stakeholders this morning, see; https://eastmidlandsrailway.newsweaver.com/1pj4mst1rq/1hdod2833hxnlw1f3wzioz?lang=en&a=6&p=13337927&t=4918378 It's long so the most important bit is here, but there's more.

The Hope Valley, Buxton and Rose Hill Marple stations all go into Piccadilly so proximity to Oxford Road would require a train through Stockport. EMRs 7.41 and 8.41 from Chinley are now the only two. Getting to Stockport by car is a frustrating task at the best of times. Changing platforms to...

Sounds believable and could have been inferred by many on the Forum now EMR seem to be getting their issues resolved. We've been waiting a long time for such a sensible plan to be officially confirmed, possibly because there remained a possibility of going to EMR for a short period. Hopefully...

Trying to rename the Kennedy Centre was a red rag from a bull! If he'd left his name out many would have objected to the sums being expended to restore it but he wouldn't be so closely associated with the decision. Of course he'll now find ways for it to be condemned as unsafe and blame Biden...