Nice to see the bus shelter at Lincoln Road has been reinstated. Now, how about a new shelter at Beechcroft Road?

Watching a pheasant take off is like watching an overloaded Boeing 747 Freighter try to get off the tarmac.

🎬 NEW VIDEO 🎬 I made the pilgrimage down to Cornwall at the weekend for the final English HST. I wasn't actually planning on physically being on the last one, but a series of events led to me being on it! This is a proper feel good video, give it a watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBR...

I think AMT collapsed because they stopped selling milkshakes. That was the only reason I went there. 😋

Chipping Norton, Hook Norton and Bloxham are getting a direct bus link to Banbury station. Following works at Tramway Road to provide better station access for buses, cyclists and pedestrians, Stagecoach is re-routing the 488 bus to run directly to the station.

If you can't find any legal on-street parking and can't be bothered to use the nearby car park, just park in a bus stop or on double yellows.

For anyone interested in finding CR3 post boxes, there's now one at Rothera Research Station in Antarctica. share.google/1Dx9KCB0IMz0...

Team Parking in Bus Stops. 🙄

It turns out that a corporate initiative to get colleagues to treat each other better is, in the opinions of many, an 'erosion of human rights'. So what about the rights of the people you feel it's okay to mistreat on a routine basis?

I've got a new Christmas jumper this year, what do you think? It was created by my talented friend @nattj.bsky.social

With F1 in the news this week it reminded me that in June 2009 I worked on a joint Virgin Trains/Alston PR event to promote 'Pit-Stop'-style Pendolino train maintenance and was delighted that F1 driver Rubens Barrichello agreed to take part in the event. Photos Virgin Trains

A work initiative to create a safer, more tolerant atmosphere and promote diversity has had an absolutely shocking response. Victim-blaming, gaslighting, complaing of 'wokeness', and censorship are the common themes in the comments.

It must have been several years since I last came to Uxbridge, and I've never seen the station at night. It looks very inviting, I like the way it's lit up.

I must have missed the change to the Underground network where Metropolitan Line trains turn into Jubilee Line trains between Moorgate and Liverpool Street?

Could this be my last journey on one of these trains? We do everything for the last time in our lives at some point, and we don't always realise it at the time.

Next up, Wimbledon. No Arteries for me as there's a 455 behind.

After riding the GWR HSTs last week, today I find myself on another train that's not long for this world. It's time for a trip down to Chessington on a South Western Railway Class 455.

Buses on Oxford’s main arterial roads are 12% faster in the morning rush hour, following the introduction of the congestion charge, than this time last year. Oxfordshire County Council has released data from the first month of the charge, which suggests traffic has fallen but footfall is holding up.

I went to see what this GBR display at London Bridge station is all about. This, apparently, is it.

Making a Tube to Tube connection at Hillingdon.

I'm lucky I don't have it this bad, but I agree that the behaviour of people is definitely getting worse. share.google/mDw4MYVg7kOd...

At least the GBR livery isn't plastered with Union Flags, but it's still a bit...much. I would've preferred something a bit more muted and elegant.

I visited England's smallest city, Wells. I can't come here and not check out a few of the Hot Fuzz filming locations!

It's very fitting that I should be bringing a dash of papaya to Glastonbury this morning!

If you Google 'Lando Norris', you get fireworks.

Some guy I saw at work a few years ago just won a thing.

Jesus fucking Christ

The best thing about Chipping Norton at Christmas is the Henry nativity scene.

Torquay seems to be a Dennis Trident retirement home by the sea. I saw two within a minute of each other.

Good morning from Torquay. Or it was until it started raining! 🌧

Arrived back in Plymouth and completed what is most likely my final HST journey with GWR. They revolutionised intercity travel when they were introduced, but everything has it's time and everything comes to an end. They served us well.

It's time for the ride back to Plymouth onboard an HST.

I went to the Southernmost Lounge in the UK. Palacio Lounge in Falmouth.

In Falmouth, a pair of buses operated by First Cornwall. This operation is planned to close down early next year due to becoming unsustainable. I hope all the people who work there will secure employment somewhere else. It can't be nice finding out they're losing their jobs in the lead up to Xmas.

I travelled on the HST down to Truro, and now I'm onto another heritage traction. Class 150 to Falmouth!

Second attempt, time to go for a ride on a GWR HST.

Good morning from Paignton. Today starts with a trip on the 12 to Newton Abbot. My Freedom of Devon & Cornwall ticket isn't valid until 9am, so I decided to take the bus.

🎬 NEW TRAIN NEW VIDEO 🎬 Today one of the new EMR Class 810 Aurora's ran for the first time, and I was out on day 1 giving it a go! Clicky! youtu.be/waKiyFe1Yck

With the points failure thwarting my plan to travel further west, I've instead decided to go north to Tavistock. I travelled on route 1 from Plymouth.

I came to Devon to find a GWR Castle Class HST...and it got cancelled due to a points failure. 🤦🏻‍♂️ I did at least get a photo of the old and slightly newer together in the station.

Good morning from Bath Spa, it's time to go travelling.

At Thame Town Hall, the bus stop still shows traces of the town's former bus operator.

Does anyone else find it unnerving seeing lots of flags on lamp posts, and wonder why nobody is doing anything about it? It's definitely meant to intimidate and divide the community.

I waited ages to get this photo! Pulham's show mostly adverts on these screens on their buses, rather than showing route information as it was intended for.

I completely forgot about this, but Saturday marked a whole year of not travelling on Voyagers (or any kind of CrossCountry train, in fact).

🏁 NEW RACE 🏁 It's been a while since I've been able to say that! I raced against @sarahwiththetrains.bsky.social from London to the very end of Southend Pier, with a twist! Can I win one back in my deficit against the challengers?! youtu.be/DlKfJknrBI4

Am I right in assuming that the photo of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and Holly Valance on a train was onboard a train owned and operated by Locomotive Services Limited? LSL is owned by Jeremy Hosking, a major donor of the Reform and Reclaim parties.

The difference between a bike with lights on at night, and one without.

The year is 2100, and every house or shop in Oxford has now been demolished to make way for lab space.

Parts of the new bridge decks at Oxford station have been installed for a while now, including future-proofing for an additional through platform. Given the desire to increase clearance and the new bridge decks being below the height of the old one, they must be lowering the road a long way?