Tag: travel
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Reclaiming Additional Industry Compensation from Thameslink/Great Northern
If you get the train regularly, you may know that 2018 has not been the rail industry’s finest year. In particular, there was the disastrous introduction of new timetables across the whole network, but particularly hitting the Northern Rail and Govia Thameslink services. I know the former has probably been worse, but I was in…
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Rail v Road During Holidays: Compare and Contrast
The above press release dropped into my inbox the other day.* It’s from Highways England, and is of the sort that is regularly published at holiday times of the year. So as we enter the Easter weekend, roadworks all over the country have been temporarily lifted to enable the flow of traffic. They even have…
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The Tour de France in the Pyrenees – 2015
[A ridiculously large number of photos means this page will be slow to load. Best viewed on a nice big monitor rather than your phone.] Although I’ve been to see the Tour de France a number of times, I’d never really been to see the race in the mountains before. Well, that’s not entirely true.…
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Rail Priorities
Over Christmas Network Rail managed to inconvenience thousands of travellers – particularly around King’s Cross and Paddington stations in London. The reason was that the scheduled works that they’d planned for Christmas Day and Boxing Day massively overran and therefore people travelling on the 27th found that either they couldn’t, or it would be particularly…