10:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 12:57

10:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 12:57 will be started from Dorchester West.
It will no longer call at Weymouth and Upwey.
This is due to a fault on this train.

I like that ... but yet the Severn Valley does not use any Network Rails track, nor do the Bodnin or Kingswear suggestions.  Others similar are services to Chinnor and Wallingford.    Running onto Network Rail lines - Minehead and Swanage, please.

Could commuting by steam train be the future?

A unique trial that saw Severn Valley Railway steam and diesel trains help people travel was used by 1,000 passengers - leading to calls to make it a permanent service.

For the last two months heritage trains have been used to carry commuters from Bewdley to Kidderminster, where they can then access mainline services to Birmingham and beyond.

John Dutton, a special needs teacher, said: "It's brilliant - I think it would be good for tourists as well as workers if they made it a permanent thing."

Gus Dunster, Severn Valley Railway's managing director, said talks would be held to decide what happens next.

The service, known as the 'Bewdley Express', has been running three days a week between Tuesday and Thursday during the 8-week period in September and October.

If I was dropped in the middle of nowhere, there is no one else I would rather have as my guide than my husband, Graham. 

While we have railed through the nether regions of the northern coast of Spain, he has had to navigate missed connections, train cancellations, bus replacements, train reservations, hotel bookings, confusing timetables, missed hotels, Interrail manual entries... all the while not knowing the language except the all-important "gracias", which once came out as "merci" then "danke" in the rush of responding.

It's our own fault. We endeavour to "live as the natives" -- to eat the regional food and mix with those who actually live in places we're unfamiliar with. That means avoiding, for the most part, tourist-y spots, and staying in small to medium-sized towns. For this trip, we got our wish in spades. We should have boned up on our Spanish. It's not that it's difficult; it's that they speak it SO FAST! We'd previously been accustomed to people knowing English enough that we'd not kept Google Translate at the ever-ready. "Gracias" or "merci" or "danke" ordinarily was enough to get by in other countries.

You also have to have patience about times to eat and when shops are open. And that meals are often shared around the table, family-style. I'd order myself a main and then be asked if we were sharing the dish, and this had me confused at first. I do have a food mission: I'm on the hunt for Fabada asturiana, and apparently restaurants that advertise they have the best, don't actually serve the dish.

However, the scenes out the train windows, and yes, even the bus replacements, have given us views into the most charming seaside towns. I just love the architecture. "Seaside" -- actually Bay of Biscay, which is currently throttling our home country to the point of curtailing cruise liner schedules. (Note to Neighbours: we're not affected in the slightest.)
And now we're headed toward Portugal, where, I understand, the language is even more difficult. Note to self: Gotta look up how to say "thank you" in Portuguese before our train heads out.

Ah, but the food, and the kindness of strangers, and the scenery...

The Spanish are very hot on accessibility. When the Malaga to Cordoba line was closed, the rail replacement coaches were all equipped with wheelchair lifts, plus an army of very smartly dressed young people helping the infirm on and off them.   

Unless your panels were specifically designed to run during a power cut they will cut off when the power cuts out.  This is to protect your local electrician if he has cut the power to the house and the lines men working on an external fault if your system tries to export power.

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But, yes, at home we do have three days plus of food and water.  I would be concerned about a really long mains electric cut, even though we have some solar panels, and cash tends to be in a variety of "what is THAT?" currencies ...

Also, Bath Spa Station seems to have a cloak of invisibility - on the way down Manvers Street in the morning, someone off a bus asked me where the station was so we walked back down to it. She said that as she headed into Manvers Street and with the station behind her, she'd asked one of the bods working on the road there where it was and he replied that he didn't have a clue, which led her to think that it was in another part of the city entirely. But it's not the first person off a bus who's been confused about the station ...

Returning from Bristol on the 14:22 Cardiff to Portsmouth, that train terminated short - at Bath Spa. Leaving the healthily running train at Bath, a minute later the entire passenger load did the same, acting on an announcement on board. The ~85% full 4 carriage train emptied. Then, an announcement went out to the effect "Passengers who have alighted from the Portsmouth train, please stay on the platform and we'll have information for you in ten minutes". After ten minutes the advice was wait on the platform and catch the following service to Portsmouth - but checking RTT it looks as though that was cancelled too. The one an hour later than that ran, and has just left Salisbury half an hour down, sods law dictating that it is three carriages. RTT doesn't show what happened to that Portsmouth train, but something got under the feet of the 14:43 to Paddington which called at Bath 20 minutes down.

At this moment of writing, I am not panicked ...

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella says he has not seen anything like the PHP emergency "in a long, long time". Referencing the ongoing global efforts to fix the critical cyber-security flaw in millions of websites, he told a conference "it was a long day and a long night, I know, for all the IT and security folks".

Other IT and cyber experts have told the BBC about their struggles in the last 48 hours, whose stories give us an insight into what it is like at the coalface of a major cyber emergency. But also highlight how misinformation and panic has made things a lot worse.

"It's been relentless," says UK-based system administrator Adam Mudd. He said he had never had so many messages from people who were worried about their websites. "The biggest challenge has been juggling clients who want their sites taken offline as a precaution, while trying to coordinate updates and fixes across countless different setups," he said.

"Sometimes it takes me longer to take a website down than to fix the PHP problem."

Presumably some of the airport passengers have poor mobility due to luggage for their flight as well as any general mobility issues they might have?

Granted they are exposed to the elements to get to the eastern entrance from the No. 8 stop, but that route through to the station subway, from which you access the large majority of platforms and trains, is much nicer than walking through the cramped concourse, busy main gate line and down narrow steps or a lift.  The route from the eastern entrance to the subway is wider, quieter and level.

Not suggesting your points are wrong as such, but that there are nearly always counter arguments that can be used.