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AFAICS the ITV report doesn't mention anything about him having "learned his lesson". It does say that he "accepts full responsibility for the assault" and “He knows people working on the front line do not deserve to be treated like that.” I does also mention his brief as saying that he was...

Funnily enough, I was scanning some old negatives the other week and came across this: I must have been intrigued by the unusual valve gear (though ignorant of what it actually was), because I took a closer photo of it: Best guess, based on the subject matter in preceding and subsequent...

Is the Jacobite the only steam-hauled train on the main line to run without a diesel on the back? Most off the videos I see of steam-hauled railtours seem to have one.

Which reminds me of a thread I started back in October 2017 about a KGX-EDB VTEC service I was on which reversed at Newcastle due to a faulty driver's door: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/reversals-at-newcastle.155498/#post-3150932 However, in the instance I related at the start of this...

See my reply to janb above. (I did say in my OP that we were travelling Haymarket to New Street and that we found our seats were backward-facing on the train to Birmingham.)

Apologies: it was first class leading when it arrived at HYM from Waverley i.e. southbound. Seats F13 and F14 were definitely backward-facing on that train - we were sat in them for four and a bit hours!

It was the 12:58 from Haymarket on Tuesday 26th March. Realtimetrains says the unit number was 390047. I did go looking but the only pairs of forward-facing airline seats left unoccupied, unsurprisingly, were the ones with no window view. (We're not keen on seats around a table simply...

We travelled down to Birmingham for a short citybreak just before Easter. We booked on Avanti West Coast Haymarket to New Street and return, and all went pretty well. We were 14 minutes late into HYM on the way home but otherwise there were no real problems with the service. I had carefully...

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/edinburgh-pensioner-taken-to-hospital-after-being-hit-by-a-bus-outside-oxgangs-police-station-4522536

How about the "Feedback on our services" option in the drop-down list on their Contact Us* page? Or one of the other options on that page. * Accessed via the "Customer Support" link their home page - look for: "Looked for help but still need a hand? Get in touch"

And on BBC iPlayer for at least a year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b009q1zw/hamish-macbeth (benefits of iPlayer over UK TV Play are that iPlayer is ad-free, video resolution is better, and episodes can be downloaded to a PC or smartphone for offline viewing). Edited to add: Episode...

I note that the McGill's announcement says: It was my understanding that Lothian Buses as a company is not subsidised by Edinburgh City Council and indeed, up until coronavirus turned things upside down, it paid the council an ~£6M annual dividend. Yes, certain routes might receive targeted...

A towbar-mounted rack is much better. It doesn't create as much drag as a roof-mounted rack and it's much easier to get the bikes on and off - an important consideration if you are advancing in years. It does require the vehicle to have a towbar, though, which can cost a bit to get fitted if...

I believe the incident shown in the video is the same as this one reported in the EEN today (30th May): https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-crash-58-year-old-man-charged-over-jocks-lodge-collision-involving-bus-and-car-4162049 Note the reference the the blue Dacia...

Is there a web site where you can easily look up a TOC's recent reliability stats? In particular Avanti West Coast. The reason I ask is that we're contemplating a short break down to Birmingham from Edinburgh in the next couple of weeks. The seemingly obvious way to do it would be using the...