Recent content by OhNoAPacer

You are all being unfair to Liz Truss. She serves a very valuable function. Let us say you are trying to decide what the correct viewpoint is on an issue, well simply see where Liz Truss stands on the issue and then you know the alternative is the correct choice.

Anyone 94 or older can already do that. My next milestone, or is that millstone, is the discovery of x-rays and the first modern Olympic games. Actually may already have made the former.

The day you realise that there is less time from the death of Queen Victoria to your being born than there is from the day you were born until now.

I wonder how many people have actual names that coincide with a rail station. It is not improbable that somewhere there is a Daisy Hill, less likely that someone is called Euxton Balshaw Lane.

Let us play a game. Bill and Ben are married and live in Glasgow. Bill is off to London to see some friends so Ben decides to go and stay with their parents in Carlisle fir a couple of days. They both book off peak returns, Bill Glasgow Central to Euston and Ben Glasgow Central to Carlisle...

It does make one wonder at the seeming lack of thought about any contingency planning.

Of course this is the one bridge over the Derwent that survived the 2009 storm that saw PC Bill Barker lose his life directing people off Northside bridge that collapsed.

Been there dobe that :{

I do feel fortunate that if I need to travel to Whitehaven whilst the bridge is under repair I can go via Barrow. If I was travelling from say Glasgow then the prospect of an RRB from Carlisle to Workington would fill me with dread.

Does anyone know the actual reason the RRB is Workington to Carlisle and vice versa and not just Workington to Maryport? The latter wouldn't extend the travel time by very much, the former extends it considerably.

My understanding is that it is the bridge over the Derwent just north of Workington Station.

In any case Flimby is north of the closure.

How about b****y h**l an actual train :lol:

BBC News - Travel: How a £525 bet gave birth to your morning commute https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68210255 Link to BBC story about Richard Trevithick's first locomotive. Thought it might be of interest.

I was once, along with other passengers obviously, transferred from a Glasgow bound service at Preston onto what had been a Euston bound service. My original train then set off to Euston. The now Glasgow bound train had no heating and an announcement was made that the shop could not do hot...