Paddle Steamer Preservation Society - special outing from Southampton on Saturday
https://paddlesteamers.org

PSPS?

Let's just say "moderator team aware" of this thread.   

.....seems to be an awful lot of these happening at the moment.......

What has happened?
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A person has been struck by a train, leading to all lines being blocked. It is necessary to bring all trains in the affected area to an immediate stop.

Young people aren't snowflakes - mental distress is rising, says head of official review

Accusations that the young are a snowflake generation are wrong, the head of an independent review into mental health, ADHD and autism has told the BBC.

Prof Peter Fonagy said in an exclusive interview that there had been a real rise in mental distress among children and young people, with anxiety, depression, self-harm and eating disorders the most common.

He said it was "harder to be young" now given the economic and employment uncertainty young people face, coupled with the challenges presented by social media.

Strange at it might seem, UK-born are far more likely to be rapists. Now let's keep right-wing politics OFF this board please?

I never said it was good value and you’ll note my full post you quoted included the word ‘farce’.

But it has provided a new bridge for Platform 5, together with another one for a future extension of Platform 2.  Those improvements will follow on on due course, but couldn’t happen without the works.  So, no immediate improvement would be a better statement.

That is being very generous given £237m has been spent (yes that is not a misprint £237m for a small road bridge) and there has not been a single improvement for rail passengers, which was surely the objective.

It makes HS2 look like a bargain 

From a search I have just done ... I have learned than "Iona" may be found within "exceptional".   And Iona is, truly an exceptional place to visit.  I visited Iona in - it must have been - the early 1970s - a day trip from Oban as a late teenager, taking my Grandmother on The King George V from Oban, sailing around Mull into the bay at Balamory, close to Staffa to see  Fingal'a Cave and then to be landed by tender onto Iona where we had a brief couple of hours to see the Abbey and enjoy the gentleness / quietness / atmosphere of the island.

A much more recent visit, taking Waverley from Oban, was a lovely day out ... but we were frustrated from landing because the swell meant that they wouldn't risk the transfer into the tenders to get ashore.  Ruefully I though back 30 or 40 years; there was a swell then too, but a more relaxed attitude.  I remember saying to Gran (in the 80s at the time, but game for an outing) "don't worry - there will be a couple of burley sailors to help you down" and her repost afterwards of "the one on the left wasn't all that burley".

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Oh happy days! Dynamic Pricing = the end of the Off-peak return then....

NOBODY KNOWS HOW MUCH THE 11:20 COSTS ANYMORE

We all know that Europe and Asia are the home of modern passenger rail, while North America lags far behind. Canada’s mainline railways move about 36 passenger-kilometres per capita each year, while the European Union’s move 984. What many people might not know is that North America dominates in freight rail, while Europe largely lags far behind. The EU moves 833 annual rail freight tonne-kilometres per capita each year, while Canada moves 10,660. Canada alone moves more tonne-kilometres of freight by rail than the entire European Union combined. And that’s not just heavy natural resources in the West. It’s also vast amounts of intermodal and industrial goods. North American freight railways get thousands of trucks off the roads and that is something we should be genuinely proud of ...