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When I commuted on the GWML around 2008-2011 it was a bit of a random unit generator.

There will be no lockdown extension. For starters, after the events of this week Boris is trying to repair relationships with his backbenchers. There are now 50 of them in the anti lockdown group. I wouldn't say an article in the Guardian is to soften people up. Guardian readers don't need...

Don't forget the "Independent Sage" who are self appointed misfits deemed too extreme even for this government. Yet the press seem to think that their every word is gospel. For some reason the public think that every word uttered by a scientist is to be hung onto. I come from a scientific...

You have to remember that the SAGE lot are scientists. Academics. Never before have they had this sort of public exposure, and they seem to be lapping it up. But what's been in the news the past week or so. Dominic Cummings and Donald Trump. So therefore no one's been taking any notice of the...

It's all hype generated by the supermarkets themselves. Let's face it, I doubt there will be huge Xmas gatherings and 15 round the dinner table this year. So why are people claiming that Christmas will be ruined because they can't get a 2 ton Turkey (Daily Mail comments) Has the UK ever run out...

The judges have their scores. Coronavirus: Positive. I'd like to take this opportunity to deny any link between myself and Katya Jones.

Afternoon all, Having been convinced I had a cold, not so sure now. Still awaiting the results of a Covid test, getting frustrated now. I'm no longer feeling ill as such, just utterly exhausted. More so than I have ever been before. The breathlessness is a toil as well. I tried to do a bit of...

Is there a certain amount of "use them while we can" effectively saving maintenance on the rest of the fleet?

Post of the week.

I'm not really familiar with the ins and outs of the Anglia region, but would it be possible to reintroduce the 317s from store to allow the 360s all to go to EMR? I know there are PRM issues with those stored 317s, but would that be insurmountable?

It is indeed. However it needs 2 doses, so enough for 15 million people. However we have also ordered a fair few million doses of the Oxford one as well.

Well done to them. This is a better result than anyone could have hoped for, bearing in mind that only a couple of weeks ago the doom and gloom merchants were saying the best we could hope for was one that may reduce symptoms.

A week in to my flu like illness my sense of smell has gone. Ordered a test, and the household is now isolating pending the result. I still think it's flu, every time I get something like this the sense of smell goes, but now I have one of the big 3 symptoms I have to follow the rules.

Well well. Everyday is a school day.

The music video for Small-town Boy by Bronski Beat. External shots show a 1st gen DMU leaving Paddington, the interior is a Cl 317 out of Liverpool Street.

Looking at the existing and former TOCs, they all seem to come from the world of bus operators or overseas rail operations. I can't think of any exceptions, therefore is it actually a prerequisite? There are none from the airline industry I can think of, nor the sort of facilities management...

I think I'm starting to form a coping strategy: 1. The government Covid dashboard is off limits. 2. As are the news websites for a lot of the time. I'm allowing myself a couple of Covid check ins a day. The US election on the other hand is compelling and I'm looking at that rather a lot. 3...

One of the eeyores, I forget which one, either Whitty, Hancock or Gove said no day trips.

Surely ticket offices had plexiglass screens between staff and passengers before it became fashionable.

I guess then it's the usual what did Boris say/what is the actual law conundrum and which one will plod try to enforce. Whatever it is it doesn't help.