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Yes, Central was the GWR from Paddington, while Riverside was the LSWR, from Waterloo. Both still open.

I was hoping the punchline was going to be ‘reader, I married her’ - hopes dashed.

There’s actually a bona fide timetable on TfL’s website. Here’s 6 November to early December: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/elizabeth-line-november-2022.pdf and 11 December onwards: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/elizabeth-line-december-2022.pdf I think the later version is there merely because 11...

Readers who have been following the staged opening may wish to know that through running from west of Paddington to the central section of the line starts on November 6. That should be of particular help to anyone arriving at Heathrow, allowing through access to the whole line via the low level...

It’s nothing personal, I assure you - they’re even worse on the Brits. A rare exception was my return from Canada last October, when I got a “welcome back”. The automatic gates are beta tested on the public.

They’ve just announced strikes for November 3, 5, and 7.

Glad you had a good trip - and the weather hasn’t been too bad for you. You’re one-up on me re the Elizabeth Line, but I’m hoping to get to try it in the next few weeks.

I agree, particularly about your last sentence. Even for commuters, the season ticket discount is/was significant on some lines. Pre-pandemic, my Worcester-Birmingham annual fare was £1,250 - not bad considering I expected to make the return journey (about 25 miles each way) 220-odd times in a...

Reading isn’t actually too bad now. The recent rebuild provided grade separation on the west curve to the slow* lines (the four-track main is paired by use). *Slow is relative here - the limit is 100 mph between Reading and Didcot. This minimises the inconvenience for Cross-Country, whose...

To be fair to Beeching, it should also be said that the report, as well as advising closure of unprofitable and/or sparsely-used routes, also stipulated investment in the remainder. Needless to say, the governments of the day were much more willing to forget that part.

It looks as if you may be lucky next week. This week is horrible!

Is that signal pointing straight up - presumably to indicate “clear” - standard US practice? It take it “danger” would be a horizontal aspect.

I too have enjoyed AM’s take on things. If you need any rail-related advice on your forthcoming trip there’s a few of us who will be glad to assist.

As they often say, it‘s green for a reason - generally the export of weather from North America 🙂.

I suspect the Queen was a transport geek at heart. She obviously loved the Royal Yacht but also seems to have enjoyed travelling by train. Until recently, her normal practice was to travel to Sandringham for the Christmas holidays by scheduled train from King’s Cross to King’s Lynn.

Coincidentally, we’re on holiday in the area at this very moment, and were in Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay on Monday. First time for me at both, and very impressed. We haven’t done the North York Moors Railway yet but will visit. My wife is controlling her <cough> excitement. They have just...

Glad you got the tickets sorted. The August Bank Holiday in England and Wales (Scotland sticks to the first weekend in August, as the schools have already gone back there) is a bitter-sweet affair, with definite shades of the prison-house in the shape of back to school (or work). I suppose Labor...

Nice account. If the pandemic had not intervened we would have stayed in Lubec ME last September. Another time, though - it’s on my proposed eccentric route from Boston to Prince Edward Island via Campobello and two ferries. You’re right about the new S-stock on the sub-surface lines. The...

Indeed. It was Marc Brunel - admittedly with assistance from young Isambard.

It’s only the unions who refer to “industrial action”. Everyone else in Britain takes the view that if it quacks like a strike…