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When I passed though Darlington a couple of days ago, there seemed to be a lot of trackwork in progress. On looking at Network Rail's website, the page on the Darlington improvements includes the sentence "We need to adapt the railway lines to the south of Darlington station where they branch...

I was looking up services between Nottingham and Durham. This was to check if it's faster to walk between Newark stations, rather than use a direct train (it is). I noticed in the EMR timetable that there actually is a direct train between Newark stations, though it must be one of the poorest...

A recent visit to ExCel using the DLR set me wondering about what is planned and what ought to be planned in the way of service changes to public transport in Docklands when the Elizabeth Line opens. Clearly the outer end of the Beckton branch will see an increase in usage as there'll now be...

As far as I know, there's never been a west-to-north curve at Gretna Green. Gretna Junction has always been a simple divergence of the WCML to Glasgow and the Glasgow SW route to Dumfries (and, eventually, Glasgow). A curve would enable a service from Dumfries (pop. 34k) and Annan (pop 9k) up...

The NHS site is now taking bookings for 65 - 69 yr olds to get Covid immunisation appointments. Not been an official announcement, that I've seen. Perhaps worried website will crash! https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/