I haven't been on a train since before covid, but I would prefer to use my phone with it's hotspot rather than the train WiFi.  My experience was always that the WiFi was slow and dropped out.

From an IT perspective I would rather n people used their mobiles which will communicate with base stations from multiple carriers, than have n people consolidating into the bottleneck of a single radio connection.

Since IETs^▸ (Intercity Express Train) were specified to survive Dawlish it is a concern that heavy rain can kill them.

In November my daughter was joining us from London.  The train was running 5 late and the guard announced that there would be a long wait for Windermere passengers.  They had asked for the Windermere train to be held but this was not possible.

When in the Lake District we always drive to Oxenholme not Windermere to avoid problems like this with the connection.

I felt that voter ID was not being taken seriously today.  On entering the polling station we showed our driving licences and the man checked the pictures against our faces, but there was no check of the name on the licence against the issue of a voting paper.

It might be easy but it appears that a lot of people have not done so.  It is unlikely that they are all planning to abstain.  Voting should be as easy as possible, and there is no evidence of voter impersonation.

The problem with terminating HS2 at Paddington is that major engineering works would be required to surface the HS2 lines and cross the EL lines (GWR reliefs) before rebuilding Paddington to take 400m trains.  Euston might be cheaper.

I replied in favour of Sunday services.
Personally I am highly unlikely to use them but I can see benefit for family visits / post Christmas returns, and for city visits such as football matches and Boxing Day sales..

The citizens of Barcelona and Venice are working to restrict the number and size of visiting cruise ships.

Is 4 Ribblehead?

Thanks.  I have not been up for a long time and thought there was a long continuous platform there.

Taunton, Paddington platform 1?

I completely agree.

Very sad, but my concern was their request that everyone should know that the power was permanently on, I was surprised that they had not known this.

That will be a cost missing from the Treasury's savings spreadsheet.

but health and safety would then require advance notice of low power cables.