Recent content by Alan Glaum

My recent Sunday RRB from Didcot Parkway to Oxford have had full ticket checks on arrival, in the car park at Oxford

There are some buses as replacements re Nuneham Viaduct - not least Oxford to Swindon

Just to say went Paddington to Oxford mid-afternoon today and the journey was better than expected. I was lucky but train was not full and then got a half-empty RRB which left within 2 minutes of me getting on and traffic into Oxford was reasonable. So more comfortable and almost as quick as I...

The GWR ad was in the copy I bought my mother this morning

Currently the Rail Replacement Buses at Oxford are using the station forecourt rather than the car park.

At the moment all my local charity shops are taking donations by appointment only - suggesting they have a lot of stock

Oxford was renumbered back in 2016, so it does happen

With delivery the last part is the vital point for the customer. For me DPD are poor but the others OK. Others will have excellent DFD local drivers and hate other companies

With the Commonwealth Games on -lots of people, some not used to UK rail travel, games tickets acting as free local travel tickets - gateline staff probably a higher requirement for a couple of weeks

I took this as the booking fee on Trainline -the reason most of this forum would never use Trainline in this case

I successfully renewed a Network Railcard last week at railcard.co.uk

The 2019 version has been available at Oxford as well There has not been much need of an update since; the new Northern Line stations and possible Elizabeth Line changes might prompt a Dec2021 version

But Reykjavik is not a TOWN in Europe, being a city. I suspect a couple of points like that and maybe a limit to "mainland" Europe were behind the original claim, just not quoted here

And now it seems Amber Hill GB's leading skeet shooter is out with a positive test. I'm sure other potential medallists from all countries will follow.

Do you have a source for positive tests? 6 athletes were self-isolating as contacts but I understand they have now all been released after negative tests.