Switching on the CERN Collider yesterday seems to have momentarily opened a wormhole into a parallel universe.
Railway hacks have been inundated by invitations from British Rail Chairman Sir John Prideaux to October's formal opening, by HM the Queen, of the newly electrified Great Western Main Line.
In other news Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed it was "piffle" that his government had plans to close the Berne gauge Grand Central line linking Manchester and Paris.