Search results

If I was in charge of this policy in Labour I'd have held off announcing this until the election is called and parliament is dissolved. This is something the Tories could very easily sabotage while in government (i.e. extend all the TOC contracts beyond the end of the next parliament) and force...

Thanks for this, I've booked a dirt cheap hotel room in Bristol City Centre so I can travel by train earlier in the day, I'll just check out in the middle of the night.

Does anyone know how GWR's late night services have been affected by overtime bans before? I'm flying from Bristol Airport at 6am on Tuesday 7th, and as there are limited coach options on that route that have my luggage needs I'm planning to get one of the last trains from Taunton-Bristol on...

How often does a derailment become a meme? https://www.facebook.com/thebashmash/posts/pfbid02q3PoNosQspApMUJK2roaQfMtTHSHxc31jbWgkypdkpMcYWHC2Z7tDb3shbSZzr1Al?locale=en_GB (Image of Facebook post of derailed freight train with caption "On the way to make this Saturday really productive.."

What property(ies) does Sunday have that means it is almost never a day for strike action? My assumption is it's a low demand day for travel and/or engineering works limit the amount of strike-induced disruption anyway, but would be good to get clarity. Also I notice the Easter season is really...

That slogan is probably what led to the reporting of this incident. My favourite joke related to that though was from Rhys James: "To clarify when we said if you see something that doesn't LOOK RIGHT, we meant like terrorist stuff, not just a baby wearing ripped jeans."

Here's the National Rail disruption page on it, the basic gist is Weymouth services being diverted via Guildford, Basingstoke terminators from London cancelled, Portsmouth Harbour via Eastleigh and West of England line trains not going beyond Basingstoke towards London.

If the election is in May (as some indications suggest), then any industrial action will probably not happen, as Parliament is dissolved and it won't be considered a matter that can be resolved in that time. Of course the RMT could easily fail to realise this and just strike anyway, but they did...

It's probably a mixed take from a Christian perspective: on the one hand spreading the word is a good deed, but it must be a sin to use other people's property without permission.

There is a flood storage reservoir at this location (Currymoor), which naturally fills up when the River Tone is high enough to spill over. Once that's full, water then spills over at Athelney into the nearby fields, and the A361 has to shut, as happened in the first week of this year. Much of...

I'd be looking at the Environment Agency's Water Situation reports for this, where if we look at the Wessex area specifically (which covers most of the geographical areas this current flooding disruption is occurring in), the 12 month period of 2023 was the 6th-wettest on record, even though...

One of the Exec Directors at my organisation, with over 30 years in it, last year left in similar fashion to what's being described in this case: a blunt all staff email and revelation the role was being covered by 2 other staff for 3 weeks before (essentially gardening leave although that term...

I don't think this quite meets the topic definition but is at least very close: on the 22nd August 2019, when a police incident shut Falkirk Grahamston station for a few hours, the up Highland Chieftain that I was onboard was held at Stirling until the line was clear and reached Edinburgh 2...

One problem I've discovered with NRE, thanks to strike action alterations, is that if a particular journey combination cannot be done on 1 ticket, the site will show the itinerary options, but not allow you to select them to see what each leg is and what changes are required, forgetting that...

Trains and pigeons of course don't mix:

Or we could pass anti-storm legislation ordering weather to allow a minimum level of service to operate across the country. *runs for cover*

Given how close we are to the election, I expect there will either be a quick breakthrough in the next 2-3 months if the Government think there is merit in settling it before then, or more likely nothing will be settled until after the election, where no strikes take place during a campaign...

A thread from last year on GWR reservations is locked, so have started a new thread for this: Travelling on the 12:03 from Paddington-Taunton (which amazingly wasn't disrupted given the current issues) earlier, I sat in Coach B, close to my bike, as all the seats were green with available on...

My main issue with the site is that on journey planner it appears you have to select an outward journey and then click a button after to see the return journey options, you can't see them both on the same page. Unless there's a way round this I'm not aware of, NRE don't realise that, especially...

The RTT log is currently odd for this (presumably errors): it's picked up that Earlsfield and Vauxhall were skipped, but thinks it departed Clapham Junction (16:14 1/2) before it arrived (16:15), and it's put its passing time through West London jct the second time under the first time and says...