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Have you noticed the goat's resemblance to the guy in charge of Virgin?

I've done that as well! I hate that road.

Office issue bog paper is so thin and nasty these days that I don't blame the lady for bringing her own bog paper to work!

Totley Signalbox's last shift.

No

Birmingham New Street being turned into "The Hole"

Probably the same as having to go out of your way to copping a locomotive, only for that loco to follow you around afterwards!

Thank you

I heard the steam locomotive passing by on this railtour last night https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K06406/2024-02-24/detailed What was the locomotive please?

I was born 26 years after WW2 ended and I am 52 now - I would like to think we have moved on by now! I have visited Germany 3 times now and think it is a good country.

Jago Hazzard's YT video - he explains the choice of Liberty Line very well.

I saw that ad last night - glad I mute the TV every ad break!

Yes - there was a bell at Lincoln that rang every time a train approached from either direction. I think it was permanently silenced during the 2008 re-signalling. I recall gricing at a platform end of Clapham Junction during evening peak one day during the mid-1980s; I was impressed by the...

I used to hate February (hence hating it being extended during Leap Year) because it's the last month of winter, but in the past few years I have changed my mind since signs of Spring usually start showing during February. Leave Leap Year Day at 29th February.

I know a driver who after a close encounter with a slow tractor and trailer at an occupation crossing got into the habit of making a really long blast on the horn every time he approached that crossing afterwards.

Hard yes! At work I use an US made software to help me support medical equipment and am sick of having to mentally translate the US dates into proper dates every time I check the events log!

Word of advice, avoid hotels very close to Hamburg and Copenhagen main stations unless you are OK with being in the middle of an area with a certain kind of sleezy "nightlife"

No I would not use one, how would a driverless taxi know that the previous fare had been sick in it (or worse) and turn itself in for cleaning before coming to me?

First time I read your post, I thought you meant parts of the train turning black! :D

I only ever crossed land borders by train: France/Belgium Belgium/Germany Germany/Switzerland Switzerland/France Sweden/Norway Denmark/Sweden don't count as it's The Bridge Germany/Denmark don't count as that was the train ferry!