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@Starmill has just walked/staggered towards me at Man Picc.

They certainly did in January 2020.

I was sat on Preston station waiting for the Lowlander sleeper to arrive a couple of years back after a Highlander cancellation. I got the impression that me being allowed to stay in the waiting room after the 01:xx Manchester was very much the exception than the norm.

Manchester Piccadilly was open 24/7 until March 2020. Then it started closing overnight for a deep clean. These days, passengers who do have overnight/waiting for a middle of the night TPE layovers are allowed to stay inside.

I've had some excellent flights. A US Delta domestic surprisingly being one of them! San Fran-LAX, albeit with a delay of around an hour which was spent on the tarmac at SFO due to a fault. Decent service onboard for a short flight but the highlight came at LAX when we were disembarking and the...

Should be a question on the breakfast card ideally. Much like the "do you wish to be woken and informed of severe disruption" option. "In the event of an early arrival, would you prefer to be woken to vacate the train on arrival, or for the scheduled time?" Although the only time I've been on...

Really?? When I did it in October, admittedly heading to NI just before the Circuit Break lockdown and back a week into it, there were sufficiently few foot passengers to not even fill a Streetlite, admittedly with no social distancing on the return leg.

18 minutes. Though we were 6L so I only had 12 minutes. It's literally over the road though, made it back with 5 minutes to spare.

It's been leaked onto Social Media, as is sadly often the way these days.

Currently on the 10:09 from Shrewsbury. It's a 2 car 150 and busier than I expected from Llandrindod. No reservations onboard, but half a tree's worth of leaves have been knocked into the carriage as we've gone down the line. No catering either so bring your own or, if you feel brave, nip over...

Crewe to Johnston was a fair old way. I seem to remember a few people travelling most of the way talking about having been in Liverpool, so I wasn't the only one doing NW England-SW Wales. I'll be doing Carmarthen-Man Picc later today too. Non-direct trains, I think my journey from Shanklin to...

The Newquay's ran last summer! However this picture is of the rear coach of the mid afternoon departure one Saturday in late August last year, taken around 3 minutes before departure. There were also "no reservations available". Although, to quote the ticket office we spoke to-a GWR one I won't...

I had a wierd one last night. Sat at a table on a 185, I think, and two guys in the vestibule started arguing. Then one of them picked up my Quail maps off the table and starting battering the <expletive that describes what bears do in the woods> out of the other with them... No idea where...

It'd depend on where I was when I was having the conversation. I'm in the suburb of a medium sized town. A lot of people will have heard of the town, but maybe not know where it is. Yet if I said "Near [City]" or "Halfway inbetween [City] and [City]" they'd know pretty much exactly where it is...

Spoons were definitely allowing you to order at the bar, though were encouraging you to use the app. There was no table service in the current style. I remember thinking that Tim Martin had clearly been inspired by Boris in making his reopening rules which pretty much included "we prefer you to...

It requires patience. A 20 hour day consisting of multiple 2/3 hour festers in the middle of nowhere is a real endurance fest.

Feel free to say hello to me onboard!:D My advance ticket for the journey wasn't issued with a reservation and nor was the advance for my return trip via the Marches. I've done all the shacks on the line so have obviously travelled on it extensively. I've never seen reservations placed, and...

I absolutely agree.

It's a difficult one. I personally am in an age group that has not yet been offered either dose of the vaccine so feel a bit uncomfortable with this idea on the basis of age discrimination. Although it seems daft not to allow fully vaccinated people to do what they want. I personally am a bit...

Travelodge Edinburgh Learmonth. Hmm. It's not one of the better Travelodges I've been in. But too much beer and missing the last train home, along with no availability showing on the Sleeper, caused it to be somewhat of a necessity. £25.99 on the day in Edinburgh should probably have seemed a...