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I was wondering whether an ageing shower pump might be starting to bind, making it harder to start (increasing the inrush current?) and causing the whole thing to exceed the MCB rating.

I have never found that, although it has happened in other pubs which said they had it on Whatpub. The Helensburgh Spoons was OK when I went there, but admittedly that was pre-Covid too.

That is quite good, as long as they do emphasise that people need to be travelling on a flexible ticket to make that change. In my experience they do lay it on quite thick, and if people have not changed at Warrington (or have got on the via-Birmingham train by accident) then changing at Crewe...

Late announcements of platform changes seem to be normal at Crewe now. Yesterday the 0943 Euston-Liverpool was announced as departing from p6 as it was running in, cue further delay as the 1st class refreshments refill trolley raced from the extreme S end of p11 round the bay platforms and back...

That really depends on whether you think that "Inter City" (invented in the UK, of course) means an airline-on-wheels, just connecting London with a very few other favoured provincial locations. Lots of other people (like me) would disagree entirely, seeing it as a network providing...

Thanks, I took it from the pic in the BBC article that the land NW of the exit from current platform 1 was to become a car park! That's very helpful, thanks, and quite reassuring. (but why is it so difficult to find it anywhere else?) I still think it's a mistake to only build 1 up through...

Not! Come on, there are currently 2 through platforms in the trainshed (if I remember it right,) this reduces it to just 1, although admittedly only for northbound trains. And I suspect that with our modern expectations of fast and slower services on main lines (and connections between them - I...

... except that the picture shows just a single (through down platform) in the old trainshed, as well as the same on the new up. Is that really enough on a busy main line with LNER, TPE and Northern services? Doesn't seem future-proofed to me.

You are right, yhat NR press release does still say "The two new platforms will provide passengers with a better service and more travel options in the future. They will also improve reliability and reduce delays for both local and long-distance high-speed services on the East Coast Main Line...

So maybe just 1 northbound through platform remaining... what about long-distance up trains calling?

Yes, that's exactly the garbage I discovered... absolutely nothing from NR about the rail provision!

I can't see any sensible reporting of this "upgrade," although I have searched quite widely. All the publicity (e.g. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/east-coast/darlington-station-upgrades/) seems to be designed to hide what is actually being built in terms of track...

Nothing that I can find on the Beeb, but SWMBO tells me the Manchester Evening News website has it - upset that their trains are cancelled! Looks to be pretty serious from RTT / Traksy.

I was imagining that the railway embankment provided a (free) barrier between the golf course and the Bay, but as it impounded water on the landward side they got agreement to pump water up and under the railway line, perhaps on the pretext that it was in the railway's interest that water didn't...

but is there a significant flow from the Lancaster area across to Barrow (for trains north) anyway? I would have thought that the majority of the traffic would be to and from the intermediate stations. Which probably wouldn't have a very attractive journey time via Barrow (connect to dock) and...

you are almost right, I did a search for a mid-morning journey on a random weekday in May (on Traveline) and most seemed to be about 2 hr 30. Actually a different search shows one an hour takes 2 hr 04, the other takes 2 hr 26. Not so different to 2 1/2 hr then.

I was surprised to see an old advert claiming that the Liverpool and N Wales (Steamship Company?) ran paddle steamers daily between Liverpool and Llandudno in 2 hours! Modern trains take about 2 hr 30 or so! (station to station.) Waverley is scheduled to take 3 1/4 this summer - see...

I have experienced that (as a bona fide first class rail passenger...) I think it was during some sort of rail disruption, maybe bad weather, and suddenly the train was deluged with would-be BA passengers with free first class tickets. Cue much criticism of the railway for not having arranged...

And there was me imagining that NPR was intended to improve travel across the North and bring economic activity back as a result of better communications up here, maybe it was even part of the levelling up agenda? What a fool I was! If NPR works out as was intended it ought to decrease...

I wasn't aware that the Martians had got to the (our) moon before us?