None of that slang is anywhere near new. Beef dates back to the 1880s. The BBC are being cringeworthily dank, as they usually are with this sort of stuff.

She lives in Birmingham, but I might point her here anyway. She's a master-grinker of extreme tenacity in any case!

Thanks. I wonder if there's a XC equivalent of this forum?

The company that sold the tickets or the operator whose trains were cancelled?

I haven't got many details cos I am (genuinely!) asking for a friend. She reckons she's lost over £100 in tickets and work not done because she couldn't get to work. She was travelling on Cross Country but bought tickets from West Midlands Railway. She also wants to write a general complaint about single points of failure and inadequate and contradictory information about cancellations, which I've suggested to her is probably best aimed at Network Rail.

Thanks for any advice.

What really struck me as a "wtf" was this:
So you return journey is not back to your point of departure, apparently...

Building a new road is such a good way to encourage people to travel by train.

No prizes for guessing which of the Ox-Cam Expressway, the E-W Rail and the Metrolbuts which will be fully open first and last.

I've no idea how many there are in GWR territory but back in the 90s I briefly worked in one in Bath, just across the river from the station. There were about half a dozen in the row.

 

I'm not sure whether this is a famous Grahame typo or a deliberate joke – or just a Freudian slip! But I like it.

Taunton sounds like a decent venue. 

Google maps not directing me off the bus exit, nor are any of the other mapping apps I sometimes use. How much are the fines per incident? £250,000 sounds like an awful lot of infringements (also sounds like a rather rounded figure).

Monorail. Like Alton Towers?

Thanks. I'm not sure why I had not ticked that box, but I've ticked it now.

Marvellous Marvin says that the centre is the best place for the Arena but that using that land for a mix of offices and housing will be more beneficial for the city as a whole. Possibly he's right, I don't know. I just doubt that the Nonarena Island will actually be used for anything now.

I've received the following email, supposedly connected with the thread about Crossrail on this forum. Seems like total spam to me. Has anyone else received it? And more importantly, how did "Claire Robertson" get my email address from the forum?