074C Papworth to Eastleigh, via Ely, Peterborough, Leicester, Tyseley, Warwick, Oxford and Reading. Due to arrive 16:17.

Train access ramps galore

Ely bus station on a grey Sunday

FLIRTing with the OHL. Southbound Greater Anglia Norwich-Stansted service raises pantograph at Ely.

Bimode FLIRT arriving northbound at Ely, on diesel.

Government launches new track and trace app, in an attempt to locate Matt Hancock's lost credibitiy.

Glad to see I'm in demand at COP26: "As climate envoys aired their views on the latest draft, the EU's Frans Timmermans said "without these concrete steps our targets will be meaningless".

Network Rail Many tractors/trailers getting easy access to the yellow field beneath train. No sign of a rail-borne crane to start clearing containers.

They aren't called public inconveniences for nothing. x.com/CRRosenstiel/s…

What was that SWT driver thinking - accepting the road into the side of a static train? x.com/CRRosenstiel/s…

And finally - an engineering train on site #ely photo taken lunchtime Friday.

What a long url is supposed to look like in Usenet (too many readers break them apart)

Before and after (modern data not always better). Builder's Edwardian plan to nearest inch, Land Registry 2000 with extremely blunt crayon

Unexplained Facebook posting, under investigation.

And that prediction worked out so well:

Cambridge Brighton PIS