starting Saturdays only 11th/18th/25th January 2025

It does not include all journeys in Devon but does include Bideford(for Barnstaple?)

 
https://www.traveldevon.info/bus/latest-news-service-updates/super-saturdays/

Would have thought resourced from Westbury,last train and crew return to Westbury,then an early start for another crew and unit heading to Weymouth.

Chris from Nailsea,please refrain from commenting on or replying to my posts.

What a very cheap shot about a very somber event,

have you no respect for those who gave their lives for all of us?

Trains heading to London Paddington on Monday will be carrying hundreds of poppy wreaths to the station's war memorial ahead of a Remembrance Day service.

The wreaths will be placed on early morning and overnight GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) services at 90 stations along the route, including parts of Bristol, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall.

Upon arrival at Paddington, they will be laid at the memorial on Platform 1 ahead of a service at 10:45 GMT.

The station will also be hosting a display of 22,442 cascading poppy petals recycled from wreaths collected during previous ceremonies.

The poppies will be put on trains by Royal National Lifeboat Institution [RNLI] volunteers, including many former service personnel.

The charity is this year its 200th year.

RNLI military veterans Simon Jeffery, coxswain at Plymouth lifeboat station, and Tony Rendle, mechanic at Penlee lifeboat station, will travel with the wreaths to attend the service at Paddington.

They will be joined by RNLI education and water safety volunteer Gaynor Williams, who organised a knitathon to create a large knitted poppy wreath.
Six people in yellow coats and three in darker jackets. A woman and a man are each holding a poppy wreath. They are standing on a platform next to the Totnes Castle sleeper train.Image source, Phil Monckton
Image caption,

Volunteers will place the wreaths on trains at 90 stations on Monday morning

Among those attending the service will be Margot Billinge, daughter of D-Day veteran and Normandy Memorial Trust fundraising hero Harry Billinge MBE, who passed away in 2022.

Ms Billinge will travel from her home in St Austell, Cornwall, to greet the train named in honour of her father as it arrives into Platform 1.

GWR's operations director, Richard Rowland, said "it promises to be another poignant occasion at London Paddington".

The RNLI's chief executive Peter Sparkes said the charity was "deeply honoured" to be involved this year.

"The wreaths placed onboard will represent our RNLI communities who save lives at sea, honouring those crew who have made the ultimate sacrifice over the past 200 years of the RNLI, including World War One and Two", he said.

I think the location was mentioned as Worksop.

Item on the programme Click on the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) news channel about reducing the amount of emissions using hydrogen technology.

Which also happens to be Pearl Harbour day,

Bristol City followers will be heading to Portsmouth for a Championship football match.

The game is SOLD OUT for Bristol City followers,with over 2,000 away fans heading to the game.

When Bristol City played Portsmouth in an FA Cup match back January 2009,a return HST^▸ (High Speed Train) football special was arranged.

Not sure if IET^▸ (Intercity Express Train)'s are passed to go to Portsmouth.

as your the boss,

you can post anything anywhere you deem fit as far as I am concerned.

on the B3136 on Friday 8th November 2024 being featured on BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) points west local news.

A bus firm has defended its use of revenue protection officers, after a passenger was challenged for not keeping hold of her ticket.

Tori Seager, from Norwich, said she paid for her paper ticket on the bus but did not take it from the onboard machine.

She said she felt "humiliated" when staff from First Bus approached her, telling her to either buy a new ticket or get off the bus.

The operator said: "Once you’re issued with the paper ticket, you must retain it for the duration of your journey."

Ms Seager, 44, said the bus driver refused to intervene and the officers refused to accept a timestamped transaction notification on her phone.

"I refused to pay again for a service I'd clearly already paid for," she said.

"I had heard nowhere about these rules or that these people were going to be getting on the bus and being very intimidating and not very lenient at all despite clear proof.

"It’s not about the money. It’s about being inclusive of everyone who comes to this city - whether you’re using the bus on a daily basis or visiting."

As a tutor of English as a second language, Ms Seager said she was concerned about her students who might be confused about the rule.

"When you've got these almost armour-wearing men getting on a bus and barking orders at you in a language you don’t understand, it can be very intimidating."
Ticket fraud

Revenue protection officers were introduced in both Norfolk and Suffolk in June to help crack down on fare dodging and support passengers and drivers.

The officers can fine passengers £50 if they do not produce a valid ticket or required identity pass.

Piers Marlow, managing director of First Bus in the East of England, said: "The unfortunate reality is ticket fraud does happen on our buses and we have introduced revenue protection officers to help with this issue."

A two-month-old baby suffered a head injury when their pram rolled into the side of a train travelling at 35mph, a report has revealed.

The collision caused the pram to tip over, resulting in the infant falling onto the platform at Banbury station, Oxfordshire, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB^▸ (Rail Accident Investigation Branch)) said.

The incident at 12.26pm on June 8 happened because the baby’s parent “momentarily released” the pram, according to the report.

CCTV^▸ (Closed Circuit Tele Vision) footage shows that in the previous 10 minutes, the parent was “either very close or in direct contact” with the pram.

Around 15 seconds before the accident, they moved the pram closer to the arriving train to prepare to board it.

With the pram’s front wheels touching the yellow safety line, the parent put one hand on a piece of luggage and turned to face a relative, “momentarily letting go of the pram”, the report said.

The pram rolled downhill towards the platform edge and hit the train, resulting in the baby falling out and suffering a minor head injury.

The small degree of slope present is unlikely to have been apparent to the infant’s parent, who possibly became momentarily distracted while unaware of the hazard created by the slope
RAIB

The RAIB said: “RAIB has been unable to determine why the infant’s parent momentarily let go of the unbraked pram.

“The small degree of slope present is unlikely to have been apparent to the infant’s parent, who possibly became momentarily distracted while unaware of the hazard created by the slope.”

Following the accident, Chiltern Railways, which operates the station, installed additional signage which includes instructions to help prevent similar incidents from occurring, the RAIB said.

was it not re-classed as a road accident,as the car was on the road level crossing?

BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) had a item about the accident on Wednesdays points west lunch time local news.

Free bus travel to mark remembrance commemorations

Veterans and UK^▸ (United Kingdom) armed forces personnel using First Bus services in the West of England, Wales and Worcester are being offered free travel during remembrance commemorations this year.

To be eligible, passengers can either wear their military uniform or show the bus driver their service ID card on Remembrance Sunday (10th November) and Armistice Day (Monday 11th November). It is available on all First Bus services apart from the Airport Flyer.

The free travel offer is being made available to make it as easy as possible for customers to get to and from remembrance services and events, and is also available on First Bus services across England, Wales and Scotland.

Rob Pymm, Commercial Director for First West of England and Cymru, said: “Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday are important and solemn reminders of the sacrifices made by so many in our armed forces, and we want to do something to mark these occasions.

“Across First Bus, a number of our colleagues are veterans, and we’re very proud of their efforts and sacrifice. This is our way of saying thank you to them, as well as honouring the men and women who choose to serve and protect the freedoms we now enjoy.

“We want to make bus travel to and from remembrance events as easy as possible for people who are attending, and I am pleased that our business can play our part in supporting and remembering those in military service past and present.”

Just hope those who volunteer/work at the new hub want to do THE job and not just do A job.