It should be Baker-Miller pink.

Kim Jong Un's train: a luxuriously decorated, armoured and slow-moving train.

One of the more informative webpages I could find during a brief Google.

(What happens to the hapless officials should there be an infrastructure or other engineering problem?)

Ragwort spread rapidly from Oxford via the railway network. Learned article.

I wonder if that explains the presence of ragwort in Sulham Meadows (actually on the outskirts of Pangbourne) where volunteers clear it each year.

As I've indicated before, the standard of journalism on local news websites frequently appals me. A few of us may remember the frequent mistakes they made about Crossrail during its construction. And several most of the reporters lack knowledge of the localities they're talking about.

"We asked it to create multiple routes and list key stations, but the result wasn't entirely feasible."  Surprise!

Berkshire Live

"The line has been proposed by Heathrow Southern Railway Ltd (HSR) which has said it could open in 2027/28."

Bets on that, anyone?

A Herefordshire couple were kicked off a Great Western Railway train after a train manager ‘took exception’ to their converted  bike, believing that it was a fire hazard and banned from rail services.

Road CC forum

Little  sympathy from cyclists for the couple.And someone has pointed out the inaccurate (?) stock photo.

I was in Imber this morning (the 28th) and by midday it was quite busy - perhaps 80 cars, including a vintage one, and lots of cyclists (not so much of the Lycra type, more tourists and recreational riders, and including quite a few children). There were refreshments and several stalls in the church. Volunteers, presumably, had done an excellent job of taping off no-go areas and putting up information boards. One of the leading lights acknowledged that the turn-out for the bus day had been overwhelming and that the organisers would be reviewing the situation with the military.

Incidentally the 14th and 15th Canadian Field Companies, Canadian Engineers, were in the Tilshead-Chitterne area in mid-1917, building and repairing roads and laying tramlines and railways (presumably of narrow gauge to facilitate the transport of stores and shells to Chapperton Down, (part of the Imber ranges). In their war diaries are references to the latter being laid at Five Down Dump, Hoopers Hollow and Middle Barn, this last being on the Tilshead-Chitterne road and referred to as the "Middle Barn Artillery Training Camp".

Mostly back to normal now, except "A fault on a train between Newbury and Bedwyn means fewer trains are able to run on all lines. As a result, trains between these stations may be cancelled.We expect this to continue until 19:30."

"This is ultimately a matter for the train operators, but they have taken the view that their staff can be better redeployed across the station concourse platform and barrier, accessing 100% of passengers, rather than the 10% nationally who purchase their tickets from a ticket office."

What a load of tosh. I still can't see how "redeployment" would work at the stations that I most often use.

Dunno how true the stories were/are, but the cartoon reminds me of people apparently going into their GP surgery for an appointment but being told they have to ring up to make one.

And what advice and help will former ticket-office staff no longer able to sell tickets but deployed elsewhere in/on the station give to customers when the machine(s) aren't working.

I voted for the first two options, then for the penultimate one, so rather contradicted myself. I don't like crowds, and have memories of my very first visit when my parents drove me there when it was open. We were the only people there, so it was very atmospheric - and there were remains of rather more houses.

Time was when visitors were cautioned about leaving the main village street except to take the path to the church because of various hazards, with an NCO cautioning that future access might be prevented if people strayed. I guess that on the bus day visitors were wandering all over the place.

Had I been there on the bus day I would have certainly looked at the vehicles, but the mass assembly would not have tempted me to make a special journey.

A bus-enthusiast friend of mine drove from Berkshire to Warminster and found the parking there to be chaotic with long queues all day, and he never got to ride on any buses, so "a complete  waste of  time". Last year he went by train and had problems with engineering works.

I wonder what was the motivation of all  those who did turn out? Was it the bus-fest (understandably, not that I'm an enthusiast)? Once one gets to Imber, there's not much to do for the average "holiday-maker" or "tourist", as envisaged in the Sun. Hopefully there were plenty of portaloos?

My first visit was c1962. (I don't think the "modern" breezeblock buildings had been built then, though the Baptist Chapel still stood.) Since then I've returned several times, usually sharing the village with a dozen or two others.

Nor do I. Having the first two options is fair enough, though I nearly always opt for the second. (I have much the same choice in another forum that has more traffic than the Coffee Shop  and I like to glance at everything that's new, though much of it doesn't interest me. Now and then I check replies to my posts and occasionally find I've missed one.)

I mentioned the proposed closures on my NextDoor neighbourhood forum, prompting a flurry of outraged protests.

Two thoughts:

if the ticket-office man/woman is still going to be deployed around my station, where's the saving that, as I understand it, the Government wants;

when the machine breaks down and if the ambulant staff member cannot sell tickets, I can foresee a number of cross and frustrated passengers.