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This has been mentioned in several threads, but there isn’t really a unifying one. Apparently a lot of businesses are having problems because so many of their staff are being told to self-isolate because of the Track and Trace app, even though most of them show no symptoms, and if tested, it is...

As an opposite to this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/dismal-stations-which-give-a-poor-first-impression-of-the-town-they-serve.219567/ How about good stations with a nice exit which make you think ‘hey, this place will be good!’ I will nominate Sheffield. The station is OK...

This was inspired by a thread by @Llandudno on the UK section. So how about international? I would nominate Liege. Not the magnificent but splendidly unfunctional Guillemins station, but the central one. It used to be named Liege Palais but I believe has been renamed St Lambert. Liege has its...

Is it a good tune? Is it inspiring? Do the words mean anything (indeed, if there are words)? This was inspired by somebody on another thread suggesting the German National anthem was still indicative over their view of the world. Anyway… ’God Save the Queen’… the words are terrible, but has...

Every morning on Sheffield station, as I am waiting for my train, I see the XC HST come in. The carriages seem ‘dented’ with some undulations above the window line, not smooth as you would expect. The paint is unbroken and I am not supposing for one moment there is any problem with the...

I’m on a train now, delayed, that should arrive at Paddington at 2020 but is predicted to arrive at 2038. I have a ticket that allows the tube, and my next train leaves St P at 2132. Now, depending on which source you read on this forum either 45 or 51 minutes are allowed for this transfer, so I...

As a spin-off from the Walking thread, @Non Multi mentioned he saw Timmy Mallett out cycling, and other members have said they saw Peaky Blinders being filmed. How about you? I do remember a few years ago, there was a thread about whom you had met on a train, but this is general. Obviously, if...

This thread is a result of the East Midlands Extension possibilities thread going off at a tangent, and a suggestion that Rotherham Masborough be reopened, and I’m afraid I had a bit of a laugh at it. However @Ianno87 managed to find a set of proposals, which I reproduce here...

Several people have mentioned their first visits to the pub as the restrictions have eased, so I wondered if it is worth having a dedicated thread for members to share their experiences. During the hot weather last week it was almost a Parisian experience in Doncaster (yes, I know), with many...

I just wondered if any members wanted to share any interesting experiences and observations while they had been out and about. Certainly, walking (sometimes with RailUK members!) has kept me sane during this crisis. I am not thinking detailed trip reports (“We ate Kendal Mint Cake and availed...

I remember a few months ago when I was in Sheffield with @yorkie and he asked ‘why are there all these strange crosses marked in the road near bus and tram crossings’. I must say, I hadn‘t noticed them before, but we deduced they were a guide for people to stand two metres apart before crossing...

I don’t live in London, but I have seen today a couple of adverts for this candidate: on this forum and a childish meme channel I subscribe to. The adverts are highly critical of Khan’s approach to COVID, and especially the introduction of traffic-restricted zones which he claims increase...

There was a terrible incident about a teacher dying on her 25th birthday, widely reported. She was a recovering anorexic who was trying to tutor others suffering about this affliction, so I would expect her immune system would be compromised anyway. Then there was a case reported on Joe Rogan...

This is a polite euphemism for vomiting. I am 60 years old and seem to remember quite a few, maybe six times a year, days of my primary school years being off with this ailment, which was cured by a day in bed vomiting until I could face dry toast and an Oxo cube in water. At the same time...

Let me say I have genuine sympathy for any victims of COVID and their families to start with, as what follows might seem a bit abstract. I have been really fascinated by how the virus is distributed through the UK, and I have an idea that at the moment that the places with the highest rates...

A long time ago, a mink coat was seen as a sign of success for a brash, vulgar woman who wanted to show off. Now, with animal activism and changing fashions, I thought those days had died. So why have Denmark - one country - so many mink? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55101058...

There have been a few threads about stations where you can see other stations from them. I wonder about tram stops. I’ll start with Supertram in Sheffield, where if you are stood at Castle Square stop, you can see Cathedral to the west and Fitzalan Square/Ponds Forge to the east. So that’s...

There has been a thread about the demise of Traveline recently, and many people suggested that it was irrelevant as Google Maps could be used instead. I went walking on the Norfolk coast today and found a bus from Happisburgh to Stalham on Google Maps at 1650, also on bustimes.org. It was...

Despite much Googling, I can’t find a day ranger ticket for Norfolk that covers buses and/or trains like the Derbyshire Wayfarer does. Is there such a thing? In particular I would like to visit the north coast and Walsingham from Norwich for a day out.

Currently sat on a 195 to Sheffield. The PIS lady pronounced Hope, not rhyming as ‘rope’, but ‘Howp’ (in fact the train is in this station now, and she’s done it again). It has the vowel sound of ‘cow’. This is weird. I can understand perhaps the wrong stresses, but this is way out. I know...