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Hi All, I'm going to be in the area of Marseille next weekend, has anyone got any rail-related suggestions for things that I should, see? Non-rail attractions, or say, a pretty line with LHCS would also be appreciated :) Yew

Mods note - split from here. I generally find that AONB's (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) are usually a synonym for "Areas where posh people don't want things like housing for us plebs to be built"

Hi all, I've been looking at booking a trip down to London, and ideally getting bit of 225 time. However I've been looking on LNER's website, and am struggling to see any LNER journeys with advance fares available? Is this a bug with LNER's website, or has their policy of releasing advances...

It seems that the commonly used PCR test has been deemed unreliable by a court in portugal https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2020-11-27/covid-pcr-test-reliability-doubtful-portugal-judges/56962

With multiple vaccines now releasing results, I thought it could be useful to have a place to discuss their approval, deployment, and effects on society. Here's a section from the BBC's article to set the tone I was thinking of: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55040635 1606485580 More...

Apparently some cases in London are due to students catching it at university, but universities in other cities. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/london-covid-stats-skewed-university-students-a4567441.html I'd give it a 50/50 chance that these cases are being double-counted too, and...

It seems that the German medical accreditation body has found that PCR tests have more false positives when other coronavirus are present, so today's measures could be literally down to people getting colds. https://twitter.com/ImDarrenDunn2/status/1308169854575349762 The original study...

Hi All, A recent study published by the Royal Society suggests that social distancing could worsen population level outcomes. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0296 [my bold]

This has been split off from this thread on Social Gatherings Indeed, it seems that over the past few years the scope of a Statutory Instrument has grown phenomenally. It's starting to feel like they're being used as an executive branch of government, personally I'd like to see a parliamentary...

As discussed in the Good News Stories thread. A new 90 min test For Covid 19 Has been developed. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-new-tests-which-detect-covid-19-in-90-minutes-to-be-rolled-out-next-week-12041300 (Apologies for the Sky link, I couldn't find the BBC article)

An interesting discussion here about the cracks starting to show within our community: Though a rather nefarious comment about restarting project fear.

The BBC have been reporting that the results of the phase one trials of the Oxford vaccine are due to be published today.

Hi All, It's been on my mind for a while that there isn't a terrific amount of support for people who have, or have been asked to contact tracers to isolate for 14 days. Do we think that there should be more done to help these people do the right thing, and ensure that they experience no undue...

Hi All, It's been a while since I've last posted, and I'm certainly out of the loop on recent rail-related occurrences, however I'm up in Glasgow for business this weekend, and I'm wondering about going on a little excursion somewhere. So far I've thought of: West highland line (however I...

Howdy Folks, Good news, I'm going to america in november, Houston specifically! I'm just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on which airline is best to go with in economy (in terms of comfort, freebies etc), Currently I'm looking at United Airlines ,Swiss Air or Air Canada (As they're the...

Hi all, I've recently had cause to pass the architecturally interesting Lancaster (Forton) services on the M6, as pictured below with its large, hexagonal tower which formerly housed a restaraunt (unfortunately no longer, due to fire safety regulations) and hexagonal OTIS elevators...

Recently, I borded a bus with the following vinyl on the side of it. (saying; 'we <3 students, £1 flat fare anytime day or night on Y36) This was also displayed on the head board of the bus However, on presentation of my (valid) student card, I was requested to pay the following fare (a £2.50...

Hey all, I'm just back from natwest. I went with the simple aim of changing my student current account, to their normal account. In order to get a card that allowed offline transactions, as my current (Blue) card cannot do that. Anyway, after a good 15 mins of discussion, the staff had no...

Hi All, Recently I was on the Nottingham Tram , and I saw a revenue 'sting' Just wondering if somebody had been caught by this, what would the consequences be? Does the NET have a set of bylaws like the railways, or do they have a civil prosecution department? Although since a Day pass is...

As you may know, EMT have a red dot day from parkway coming up. However I'm wondering if the ticket is only valid from East Midlands Parkway [EMD], or if I could start at Mansfield. I'll be going with family members so would like to avoid any confrontation. Thanks gentlemen, Yew