Category Archives: Travel and transport

Girl book titles

Girl used in literary titles The word girl is appearing everywhere in titles of literary works, including this observational piece of my own from 2014. Why did I use “girl” is perhaps the question I need to ask myself? I could easily have used woman in the title instead, from my memory of her age… Read More »

Happy New Year / Delville Woods

2017 – Happy New Year This first blog post of 2017 was to have begun, as it does in the heading, by wishing readers a Happy New Year for 2017 and then continuing solely with this content about my writing. However, as you will see later, computing issues continue to aggravate hence the additional material… Read More »

General status update

General status update A general status update as it has been a while since I posted anything here so time to get back onto the blogging trail. It has been busy summer including helping both my daughters make family house moves, two brief holiday breaks, one in the Lake District and a second in Scotland… Read More »

WCRC – sentencing outcome

WCRC sentencing outcome The court cases following the incident at Wootton Bassett in 2015 are now resolved and sentences issued. Both parties pleaded guilty at Swindon Crown Court yesterday. Glad to see the prison sentence was suspended. Link to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) official statement. BBC Press News report on the outcome.… Read More »

WCRC – update

WCRC – update During the site update earlier tonight I noticed that the fact the operating suspension of WCRC has been lifted was not reported. Out of fairness to WCRC that omission is now rectified with this short post.  The earlier post is here.  The Crown Court and other proceedings remain live and no-comment is made regarding… Read More »

WCRC suspended from running trains

WCRC – Legal constraints update This legal constraints update is a follow up to my blog entry of 5th January this year regarding the West Coast Railway Company (WCRC).  At that time the company’s operations were under the spotlight due to the pending court case action arising from the Wootton Bassett incident of 7 March… Read More »