By the Riverside?

 

Chaos this evening ...  WWRUG Committee meeting finished around 19:15 in Trowbridge and I have just got home at 22:30.       Particularly galling to see trains going through Trowbridge without stopping ... the young lady waiting for the 20:12 there and headed home to Stroud will still not be there.

 
20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:06
20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:06 will no longer call at Trowbridge, Melksham, Chippenham, Kemble, Stroud and Stonehouse.
It has been delayed at Westbury and is now 75 minutes late.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system.

 
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K61700/2026-02-06/detailed

Another go from Wolverton. Very late in the day.

 

 
I know our drivers have been talking about this . I can say its put a lot of drivers on edge making us drivers wonder if we have issues on the.bus why she intervene

 
175007 was in public service today.

 
Very sad to see 'real' ferries laid-up and then gone.

 

Back in October 1977 I spent a few days at the Slapton Field Studies Center as part of my A Level Geography course.  The whole group were walking back along the coast path from Start Point but myself and a few others were among the stragglers.  The ones ahead of us actually saw (and heard) a wartime mine, discoverd that day on Slapton Sands, being detonated by the bomb disposal chaps.
We didn't see or hear a thing, which rather puts a perspective on my definition of "stragglers".

 
A quality page on the last days of Stranraer as a ferry terminal.

Mark

https://www.niferry.co.uk/photo-feature-10-years-on-part-1-farewell-stranraer/

 
When I first visited the beach in the 1960s it still had the notices warning of unexploded ordnance.

 

Perhaps they should look for a northern route going the other side of Dartmoor .... oh ... wait ....

 
I read that as "I still have a large shell from the beach", and went pale.

Mark

 

Well, David Lammy is a populist jerk.

As for the Metropolitan Police, the less said about their abilities the better.

 
There was this sad case a few years ago at a ford between Greenham Common and Headley.  I used the footbridge last year. Barriers now block the ford, but presumably can be unlocked by local farmers using agricultural equipment.

There are also many videos on YouTube of drivers failing to get through Rufford Lane Ford, now closed because of the number of emergency callouts.

 
I took  part a couple of times in a cycle race that started and finished in Totnes and went along the road. I also did some recreational cycling in the very hilly lanes (on one occasion a brake cable had snapped, which made descending a bit dodgy).

On the news last night there was a reference to the tank park where, presumably, Ken Small's tank  is still parked.

I still have a large sea shell from the beach.

 
The presence of (severely deformed) sheet piling indicates that this is almost certainly the same A379 section that was destroyed by Storm Emma in 2018.

In which case Devon County Council and/or National Highways should probably be looking for a much more robust solution this time.

 
Stranraer, the service to it, passenger numbers are an interesting case.

https://www.passenger.chat/STR.html

I tend to make comparisons to places I know ... and Stranraer has about a half of the population of my home town of Melksham, and about half the passenger journeys per annum.   It does, however, differ, in that it's a the end of a line serving lots of other places along the way. 

We've seen similar in the past with buses from Bath to Easterton where the intermediate traffic from Bath has a business case, but the final Market Lavington to Easterton leg was a business case "joke" - however, and cut backs without alternative would have had a detrimental effect on both the places cut and crucially on the route as a whole, cutting off a chunk of custom that helped with the overall route economy.

 
Hereford, is hear-a-ford as Ox-ford is also a valid answer
The Lace star is Leicester

There's a New-castle
S-Keg-Ness
Bolt-on
Liver-pool Lime [Street]
You have to know the nickname of Arsenal for Gunners-bury
Some Hams are having a Chat
You have to know who wore the #10 short for England, and is also a station
There is a Barking, but you have to locate where s/he is doing it

and that should be all 40.

ETA:  Hang on, there's 41!

 
This line has been closed for so long now, (through nobody’s fault) that I think it deserves a ribbon cutting ceremony when it finally reopens  [Image from here is not available to guests]

 

They probably didn't put themselves in the driver's position either.

 

I would totally agree with this.

 
And Sheffield

 

 

Seems to be a cross party consensus on the issue - the Justice Secretary regards him as a hero.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/passenger-david-lammy-house-of-commons-kemi-badenoch-b1269442.html

The Metropolitan Police considered his actions "proportionate and necessary in the circumstances".

I note that you've mentioned "vigilantes" and also introduced your arse to the debate.........worth reflecting that on this occasion it's just possible that you're talking through it?  [Image from here is not available to guests]