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1	All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Labour to nationalise railways within five years of coming to power.	on: Today at 18:40:18
Usual considered opinion from Christian Wolmer https://inews.co.uk/opinion/labours-rail-nationalisation-plan-will-put-our-trains-back-on-track-3024206

2	All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: Death of another bus station?	on: April 24, 2024, 06:54:32
Similar in supermarkets; the people who design and "program" checkouts probably never do the shopping! Is the situation with politians the same, most of what they legislate on is some theoretical construct?

3	All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Death of another bus station?	on: April 23, 2024, 07:02:43
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68856947 I do wonder if planners ever use the facilities that they want to remove or create.

4	Sideshoots - associated subjects / Railway History and related topics / Re: Somerset and Dorset Devonshire Tunnel flood	on: April 23, 2024, 06:57:00
I think we have another thread on this topic. I must admit I have trouble finding previous threads when I am posting something.

5	Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Where have I been?	on: April 23, 2024, 06:50:28
Quote there are several river Avons Avon in the celtic languages, Welsh etc, means river. So there are quite a lot of River Rivers.

6	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption elsewhere - ongoing, since Oct 2014	on: April 12, 2024, 06:53:22
You could use the excuse it was in the Hungerford sanitary district (c. 1872) which extended over the county boundary to include Bedwyn!

7	All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / Re: Difficult to argue with e-bike/scooter rules?	on: April 10, 2024, 07:00:05
I must admit that my initial concern was that it appeared that the bike was about three steps from being able to board a train. Had it done so the result would not have been so photogenic.

8	All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / Difficult to argue with e-bike/scooter rules?	on: April 08, 2024, 12:11:32
This happening in a train or bus doesn't really bear thinking about https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-68744317 Quote E-bike and e-scooter fires are the fastest-growing fire risk in London: statistics indicate there have been at least 40 this year.

9	Sideshoots - associated subjects / Heritage railway lines, Railtours, other rail based attractions / Re: 10 years of the Two Tunnels cycleway	on: April 07, 2024, 08:01:30
I don't feel the current situation is going to change soon https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-tunnel-closed-again-due-flooding-307683 Am interested how they managed to do it despite ~~English Nature~~ Natural England shouting BATS (as opposed to Great Crested Newts). Another former railway tunnel in Wales has gone ahead despite the Welsh equivalent playing the bats card, although it is shut part of the year during the bat breeding season. The South Downs National Park are going through all sorts of contortions over the tunnels on the Chichester - Midhurst line, alternative suggestions hardly suitable for manual wheelchair users who are not paralympians. Is it a case that BANES was prepared to face down English Nature and a National Park feel they can't. UPDATE: correct name of quango

10	All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Folkestone Warren 26/03/24	on: April 07, 2024, 07:47:51
Apologies, finger trouble Sid

11	All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Folkestone Warren 26/03/24	on: April 06, 2024, 16:36:49
Quote Folkestone Warren being beneath a huge splay of thoroughly incompetent 'cliff' across which the railway built one of the two lines to Dover, the line being closed by a landslip of nightmarish proportions during WW1 https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/the-great-fall-historic-landslip-images-resurface/ Puts our current landslides in perspective. And if you want a view on how to "control" the problem https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2016/12/21/folkestone-warren/ For those who are interested it is well documented.

12	All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / On yer bike - Apologies to Norman Tebbit	on: April 03, 2024, 16:36:37
On yer bike - EU^» (European Union - about) looks to boost cycling https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2024/0403/1441499-europe-cycling/ This of course does not apply to us because we are no longer part of this club. Although lots of people might agree with Quote recognising bike-riding as a healthy form of transport worthy of more investment. I am not sure if the politicians or the journalists are responsible for Quote electrifying bicycles but they sound painful.

13	Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Where are Finn and JayMac today? 3rd April 2024	on: April 03, 2024, 16:28:40
I think I can safely say not Basingstoke.

14	Journey by Journey / South Western services / Re: Major disruption, Basingstoke, 3rd April 2024	on: April 03, 2024, 16:27:28
To ensure no damage to historic artifacts at Winchester, not a problem at Basingstoke???

15	All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture Overseas / Re: Enniscorthy-Wexford-Rosslare Strand-Rosslare Europort at risk of closure	on: April 03, 2024, 16:22:53
Unhappy senator https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0403/1441381-dublin-rosslare-train/ I think this is not the last of this.

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