EMR close platform access via footbridge at weekends 🚫
Damp but not rainy once again; Cardmania comes to Nottingham; rail station footpath reduced opening times for platform access.
We'll get to the heady heights of 8 degrees today, but mostly it'll be settling around 5 degrees heading into the evening. There will be a smidge of rain, but who can really tell these days. Wind is not too bothersome, but there will be 30 mph gusts.
Card collecting games - or trading card games more correctly - were a big deal to me as a kid in the middle of the Pokemon craze. It seems that craze is still going strong for many people. Cardmania is a trading event with 40 trader stalls ready to sell, trade, or buy your collectable cards. Tickets are between £9.60 and £13.31 depending on what time you want to get in - the early bird gets the worm. That's over in Broxtowe, in the Harvey Hadden Sports Village.
In transport news, EMR have announced further reductions to access to platforms via the footbridge, which they say is used to evade ticket barriers. One representative of EMR implied leaving the barriers open was the same as stealing from the tax payer. From February 6th, the gates to platforms will be closed at weekends as well as from 7pm to 6am each day. Although you can still use the footbridge to cross from Queens Road to Station Street at all times, local businesses like Hopkinson have fears the change will divert traffic away from their shops. The Nottingham Post has more on this story.
