Has anyone else seen this?  BTP^▸ (British Transport Police) are involved. Interesting principles are discussed.

Black Belt Barrister Piano at St Pancras

If you plan to make the journey 3 times or more, a weekly season ticket will be your cheapest option. Ticket only to Waterloo and use your Oyster^▸ (Smartcard system used by passengers on Transport for London services) or debit card for the Underground/bus journeys to benefit from daily capping.

I think you are referring to the 'Radio Tours' that ran in summer from the North Wales resorts. The 'Radio' was a running commentary. I think they ran Rhyl, Corwen, Barmouth, Afon Wen, Bangor, Rhyl.  Would loved to have taken one.

I had a rule at work, and tried to advise its adherence down the line: Before you write something in the corporate environment, think what it would look like in tomorrow's Times.

A curious little fact I have just come across in the June 1941 issue of the Railway Magazine (p. 244) regarding the railway at Fishguard. Apparently the last mile of the railway to the port was jointly owned by the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) and the Great Southern Railway of Ireland through the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbour Company. I never knew that even tiny bit of the British mainland system had an Irish owner.

I wonder if or when this arrangement was untangled.

So true. And yet platform 4 could be easily made step free by using the carpark access road.

Will that fitting be on the right like the late GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) or the left like most of all the other British railways?
I am trying to remember where the steering wheel was last time I drove a locomotive.

I am merely the messenger. I suggest you address your concerns to Hatton's.

From Hatton's press release:


One word beginning with "B" is the first word in a sentence. They describe themselves as "an international business".

I see the "B"-word prominent in their announcement.

As a fellow (amateur) signalman, it can be a lonely job and I often think that should something go wrong, no-one would know until a train hit a red signal and the old rule 55 was carried out. A very sad event.

Nice to see traditional English Bond brickwork used on a new building

I assume one could replace a MYB^▸ (London (Marylebone))-OXF^» (Oxford - next trains) service with a PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains)-OXF service in the same path if required.

On a different note, is the line between Old Oak Common and Greenford going to be restored post HS2^▸ (The next High Speed line(s))?

I wonder as to why the Didcot call.  Didcot is already well served to Bristol and Oxford and using the West Curve would save considerable time and a reversal.

I think some of the statistics might be a bit off the mark according to this article, with Germany well ahead at 197,540, France at 129,735 and Spain at 83,385. The UK^▸ (United Kingdom) numbers come next at 81,130 above all of the rest of EU^» (European Union - about) countries. On that first link one can expand the graph to see them all.

So I don't think we are not pulling our weight here. Of interest, look at the asylum rejection rates. The House of Commons report states that the UK rejection rate was 24% in 2022. Compare that to France for example in my first link or even Spain and compare the numbers of accepted asylum seekers. I am not anti-asylum nor anti-immigration.


This is the nub of my comment on 'uncontrolled immigration' that it is the open and porous state of British society and its economy that people can simply disappear. I would love to study the statistics quoted above but I suspect that in the UK without its national identity card (needed for all walks of life in the EU and elsewhere), the 'detection' element, compared to EU areas, is significantly lower.