As is often the case many train services will be affected by closures over the Christmas and New Year periond for engineering works, staff shortages and any other of the usual reasons. In order to point you in the right direction to enable you to plan any journeys you may wish to take please take a look at the National Rail Christmas and New Year Summary. https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/travel-information/christmas/ Have a wonderful Christmas and A Happy New Year

To Autumn John Keats 1795 –1821 Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,  Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless  With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,  And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;    To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells  With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,And still more, later flowers for the bees,Until they think warm days will never cease,    For summer...

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