Also a Braunstone (Leicester) and a Braunston (Rutland). The latter changed to Braunston-in-Rutland, partly because every time someone phoned for an ambulance it went to the Leicester one first...

Lousy at the moment, but then the Cotswold Line always falls apart in the autumn.

Not very low, just a few inches lower than normal. When (/if) the bridge works are ever completed then standard double-deckers will be able to pass underneath without the risk of an impromptu open-top conversion.

Yes, I'd been wondering about that too. They've disappeared from the PDF timetables and I don't recall the Cathedrals Express, at least, being announced for a while (though it's not one of the services I get most often, admittedly).

I've seen RRB^▸ (Rail Replacement Bus) drivers be very reluctant to carry even folding bikes. (Fortunately not the one from Manningtree to Harwich International last Sunday otherwise I'd have been riding to the ferry in the dark!)

Two of the last IETs^▸ (Intercity Express Train) I've taken have been worryingly juddery - sufficiently so that in both cases I've flagged it to the train manager.

This morning I was on the 10.53 out of Paddington in Coach D, and there were continuous judders all through the carriage. I first noticed it around the Heathrow junction, but it continued pretty much all the way through to Oxford, and then became more intense between Oxford and Hanborough again.

Not sure if these are just the expected autumn wheel flats (I'm not any sort of engineer let alone a train engineer!) but I don't recall noticing anything this bad on any other train.

5-coach IET^▸ (Intercity Express Train) on the Oxfordshire Halts stopper this morning. Admittedly I haven’t caught this train for ages but I wasn’t expecting that!

Looks like the Hereford and Malvern starters both started short at Shrub Hill though…

The Conservatives coming out against LTNs^▸ (Low Traffic Neighbourhood) will do absolute wonders for the chances of the LD/Lab/Green coalition retaining control of Oxfordshire County Council in 2025.

LTNs are broadly popular; all the polling evidence shows that. Those who don't like them are by and large already voting Tory. It's a strategy for retaining Uxbridge, not for reversing the Conservatives' recent losses or their position in the polls. Like the French generals, Sunak is fighting the last war.

13 is Bristol, just across from Pero's Bridge and the formerly aquatic statue.

1 looks like the Grand Western Canal, presumably near Tiverton Parkway. I think I can see one of the canal's characteristic "slow down at bridges" towpath signs before the bridge.

• Not in London
• Not in Oxford either
• Not a public airport, more a base for private planes and tuition

Bingo?

I think what you're saying is that the IETs^▸ (Intercity Express Train) are better commuter trains and the 387s are better intercity trains? 

I hadn't realised until recently how bad the "rear access" is to Worcestershire Parkway. (Spoiler: it doesn't really have any.)

Part of the appeal of the station is that it's in easy access of Worcester's southern suburbia. It's 1.5 miles from Norton, 2.5 miles from St Peters. There's a fancy new cycle/footbridge over the southern bypass, dedicated signage, and traffic calming on the minor roads, together designed to make it easy to cycle to Parkway. (Here's a map: https://cycle.travel/map?from=&to=&fromLL=52.171032,-2.201800&toLL=52.156044,-2.161293)

There's then a cycleway/footpath that takes you up to the Birmingham-bound platform. "Up to", but not "onto". You park your bike in the stands provided (fine so far). But then: you have to climb n steps up onto a separate footbridge over the CrossCountry line; descend the steps on the other side; perform a swift U-turn into the station building; climb n steps again up onto the main station footbridge; finally, descend n steps onto the Birmingham platform.

n*4 steps in order to get five yards from the bike parking to the Birmingham platform. I could understand it (though perhaps not agree with it) if Parkway were a gated station, but it isn't.

Interesting!

The Gwendraeth Valley Railway in South Wales appear to be making a good fist of trackbed clearance (there are still some very rusty rails down...), with the intention of running both velorail and heritage services.

Usually I tend to think of velorail as a neither-fish-nor-fowl compromise that could either be used for a proper cycleway or a proper railway, but given that they are indeed planning a heritage service and there's an excellent cycleway just a mile or so away, the Gwendraeth scheme could be a runner.

I'd be more charitable than that! OBC have a knack for promotion and have shown they're willing to try and grow the business. Pulhams were lovely as independents, but I don't think I've ever seen a single piece of promotion for the X9 ("our" bus, Witney–Charlbury–Chipping Norton), and they only introduced card payment on it when OCC funded them to do so.

I'd pretty much resigned myself to the X9 being abandoned in a year or two and left for a community transport organisation to pick up. It may still happen but having the heft of OBC behind it gives it a fighting chance.