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It's not fair to say they just ignored him. Some of them went to the trouble of getting a judge to tell him to do one.

Interesting that booking for Birmingham this week both Holiday Inn express and Hilton were as cheap as the cheapest Travelodge or PI, but with free breakfast and points included. Feels like we're a long way past the point where either is the acceptable budget option

There's plenty of decent blended malts. No comment on whether that is one, but it should in any event be a big step up from something grain-heavy like Teachers or Grouse.

Ahh, that's annoying - I have a fix, just trying to get it released now 1748446383 Fixed now

The signals are currently placed around 30 seconds apart at line speed, so that isn't what's driving the 3 minute headway. You pretty much need moving block authority to make a decent dent in that, and that doesn't necessarily require more infrastructure. Incidentally, that map is just based on...

This seems to be happening more and more, particularly but not exclusively at the bargain places. Unfortunately we've essentially eliminated Trading Standards, so there's absolutely nothing stopping it - they just issue a refund and maybe an apology to people who notice

I would have thought the patchy wifi would be enough to protect it from external attack

Temple Mills is what I'm calling Thorpe Park, because apparently I've been looking at too many maps and plans and can't remember what's where anymore

The mooted 4-tracking is a significant distance, not just some passing loops in Cross Gates. It's clearly not something they're actually doing right now, but they are building Temple Mills with passive provision for 4-tracking, so it's in the thinking for the future. That means they are pretty...

There's at least a passive ambition to 4 track it. I'd be surprised if they put the electrification masts in the middle

260kph would have rendered the whole eastern leg pointless and not provided competitive trains to Edinburgh. That significantly lowers the value proposition and eliminates any benefit on the East Coast to the point where you'd have to build another one up the east anyway. I'd rather see a 260km...

I'm mostly going to chalk that up to an error in the schedule. I'd love to know how it goes backwards I time though - I think if Traksy is displaying that then it has to be assuming that it arrives 2 days after departure with a couple of very long stops.

Interesting. The diagram i drew Traksy from was almost certainly right, but I've got a feeling the signal numbers were largely reused so RTT may just not have been updated.

The loop is indeed 2 bi-directional lines. The map at https://traksy.uk/live/M+11+HARMYRS is accurate. I haven't been watching, but you should be able to see on there which line the trains take. I'd imagine it's probably accurate on RTT, and they are just using one platform while they finish...

There does seem to be quite a lot of revisionism going on about HS1. I can remember years of furious protest, angry poems in the Guardian, planning battles, and every company involved going bust at least once. Added to which it arrived years after it was needed, leading to the Waterloo terminus...

So, having established that you're furious about the problems and furious about any attempt to solve them, what's your plan?

Illegal (or at least irregular) immigration is a very obvious issue which they have already committed to and started doing something about. The keys are to process claims, which they have been hiring to achieve but which can't happen overnight, and to turn off the tap by getting a return...

HS2 provides a more effective distribution of wealth around the regions, frees up space on railways for freight and commuters, supports business by reducing time lost in travel, allows people to provide free care to relatives the other end of the country rather than being a burden on public...

That was always the plan. Not all that many of them actually managed it

I meant non-workers in the working age population right now, and the solution is rather more direct than having children.