There is an article on the role of the Rail Ombudsman in the March edition of the Railway Magazine, p17

Given the report’s concerns on the HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train) the plans of GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) to replace them with IETs^▸ (Intercity Express Train) seems to be a sound judgement.
Note that a risk assessment has to be carried out on the HST relating to their further use and to ALL pre-1994 rolling stock(the date that the crashworthiness standards came in. That covers all the 15x series, 165 and 166. This might have implications for the GWR and the WoE lines 159s.

1 Sea Mills, mural by Rob Wheeler as part of Project Sprint
10 Stapleton Road

Euston station DC^▸ (Direct Current) lines for Watford service?

South West Coaches Chard, Crewkerne and Yeovil service links villages along that route.
https://images.southwestcoaches.co.uk/images/pdfs/96timetable-public-from01.09.20.pdf

The first bus No6 links Bridport, Crewkerne and Yeovil and villages on that route
https://www.firstbus.co.uk/uploads/node_images/PUBLIC%20Dorset%20(composite)%206%20timetable%20.pdf

On Saturday the CB3 links Bridport, Beaminster and Crewkerne. It is nominally run by Beaminster  Town Council
https://bustimes.org/services/cb3-bridport-beaminster-yeovil

And on Twitter this morning
https://twitter.com/coastway_will/status/1496979397420765184?s=21

Electric bike hire comes to these stations
   NEW CO BIKES STATION ALERT

https://www.co-bikes.co.uk/

A number of gardens in the area open at weekends in February just for the snowdrops. Margery Fish’s garden at East Lambrook has the national collection of snowdrops and was worth visiting. Two others we visited, Forde Abbey and Mapperton House, were suffering from the lateness of the flowers thus year.
All three were very busy, probably, like us, people were just glad to be out and about among this sign of spring.

We do our non perishable items by online delivery, usually just over the minimum allowed

We shop in person for the rest -  the veg comes from one of two local farm shops while the meat comes from a local butcher. The bread comes from a local bakery. The farm shops also sell meat and bread from other small bakeries.
We are well placed with a number of small independent shops providing most of what we need. There are five local bakeries with their bread available in a variety of outlets, including village post office/shops. There are four butchers, one of whom can trace their business back to Bridport in 1515!

According to Journey Check the Waterloo-Exeter service truncated to Yeovil Jct-Basingstoke, nothing west of Yeovil.

https://www.journeycheck.com/swr/

The old S&D^▸ (Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway) bridge over the River Stour near Blandford

11.43 ALL SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) services cancelled

⚠️*SERVICE UPDATE*⚠️

Services are suspended across the South Western Railway Network.

Do not attempt to travel.

We will update you when things change.

https://twitter.com/sw_help/status/1494638821002129409?s=21

In October/November 1940 two siding were laid on the Bridport branch for rail mounted anti aircraft guns. One at Bradpole near the crossing and the other at Loders by Boarsbarrow hill. However by 1941 they were moved away from the line. The photo shows the location of the Loders siding, the branch was to the left of the photo.

3 Broadway station, that opened with the Abbotsbury branch in 1885. It became Broadwey in 1896 and Broadwey (Dorset) in 1906 before becoming Upwey in 1913.

The first Upwey station (closed 1886) was on the main line to Weymouth north of the current Upwey station (originally called Upwey Junction) which opened in 1886

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/u/upwey/

2 was the site of Wishing Well Halt, about 1.4km from the Wishing Well itself.

This increased the competition with the LSWR^▸ (London South Western Railway) to Plymouth and on the 1st July that year the Salisbury train crash occurred. Cause was excessive speed but underlying this the reason for this excessive speed is still uncertain.
https://www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk/salisbury-blog/2021/june/the-rail-crash-in-salisbury-in-1906/