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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2026 5:06 pm 
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Not much here in the grand scheme of things, but some personal resonance in more humdrum terms - on Friday I was waiting at the station here in Fife, and an academic historian from St Andrews got in, and said he'd been on a trip to Carlisle to see the castle etc

I said I didn't know much about the history, but often read about Carlisle in terms of taxi stuff, and sometimes about attacks on drivers in particular :-o

And, voila, a couple days later and along comes a report along those very lines...

(And that £25 run was a great relief on another 'busy' Friday night when I'd waited at the station for 2.5 hours until 11.15pm - if he hadn't appeared I'd have pulled off from pole after that time, because the next train was another hour away, and I wasn't going to risk waiting another hour maybe to get a £5 local run, or maybe not get a run at all. And then possibly yet another hour until the very last train... :roll: )


Taxi driver assaulted in late-night attack near Carlisle Train Station

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2648 ... n-station/

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A TAXI driver was assaulted by two people in a late-night attack.

Police said the incident took place at a taxi rank on Court Square Brow, next to Carlisle Train Station, at around 11.30pm on August 16.

Officers are treating the incident as attempted grievous bodily harm.

They are appealing for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward.

Reports can be made online at cumbria.police.uk/report-it or by calling 101 and quoting incident number 277 of August 16.


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(And that £25 run was a great relief on another 'busy' Friday night when I'd waited at the station for 2.5 hours until 11.15pm - if he hadn't appeared I'd have pulled off from pole after that time, because the next train was another hour away, and I wasn't going to risk waiting another hour maybe to get a £5 local run, or maybe not get a run at all. And then possibly yet another hour until the very last train... :roll: )

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