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1  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ12 - Station Search on: December 12, 2024, 15:01:19
I also see a far away land which a certain bear arrived at Paddington from.
2  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ12 - Station Search on: December 12, 2024, 14:46:27
Is the shortened one "Didcot" instead of "Didcot Parkway"?
It could also be Hayes instead of Hayes & Harlington although Hayes is of course the full name of a station that does not have trains from Paddington.
3  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ08 - Thank you Scotrail on: December 08, 2024, 16:50:38
4.  Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth and Stirling.

Scotland does have eight cities now though since Dunfermline was given the status in 2022.  Had Elgin's bid been successful instead then maybe the trains would have been renamed Inter8City.
4  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: First it was squirrels..... on: November 23, 2024, 14:16:26
Next they'll be asking passengers to drive the trains!

Might help with regular driver shortages.
I seem to remember back in the 1990s Great Eastern Railway having the idea of using commuters as guards although it never came to anything.
5  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: What do we mean by "South West England" on: August 29, 2024, 15:24:51
Depending on where you're located, both are usually available in and around Taunton - just a case of which direction your tv aerial is pointing - towards Mendip, or towards Stockland Hill.  Or it used to be, in analogue days
I even remember being able to get Wales Today back then (this was north Taunton though so may not have been possible everywhere in the town).  Everyone seemed to have their aerials pointing towards Mendip but this may have been different elsewhere.
6  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: What do we mean by "South West England" on: August 29, 2024, 15:01:29
The BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) only include Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset in their Spotlight area. ITV include Bristol and Avon.
I remember getting Points West in Taunton rather than Spotlight.
7  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: St Erth Signal Box on: August 19, 2024, 17:35:09
I'm not sure of the actual location of the fringe, but from St Erth 'box towards Plymouth, it's Track Circuit Block (using axle counters) controlled by Roskear.  Towards Penzance, it's Absolute Block to Ponsandane and from there, where the line becomes single, it's TCB (Track Circuit Block) to the terminus.  I think I remember correctly (from more than 50 years ago) that the Down Main line to Ponsandane is track circuited, so that the Penzance signaller can give "train out of section" to St Erth as soon as a down train clears onto the single iine towards Penzance, without having to wait to see the tail lamp as the train passes the actual signal box at Penzance
AFAIK (as far as I know) it's still AB from St Erth to the first stop signal controlled by Roskear Junction with a tail lamp camera provided to allow Train out of section to be sent once the train has cleared the section.

Unfortunately the Down Main from St Erth to Marazion did not become fully track circuited in the 1974 scheme, the 1974 Sectional Appendix says that for any train heading for Long Rock depot or No 1 siding, the guard must inform the Penzance signalman whether or not the train is complete with tail lamp.  I'm not sure why a tail lamp camera was never provided here since when St Erth was switched out late at night it could be quite a restrictive arrangement.
8  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: More line endings (batch 2 of 2) on: July 30, 2024, 17:33:59
14 Glasgow Central.
9  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Heading off in THREE different directions to get to the same place. on: January 09, 2024, 14:13:02
You can head west from Stratford by three different routes and arrive at Liverpool Street but one of these is of course the London Underground Central line and all three will take you to different parts of Liverpool Street so this may well not count and definitely would not if it has to be three different directions out of the platforms.
10  Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: underground plans for Bristol update. on: October 10, 2023, 17:34:22
Hopefully WECA» (West of England Combined Authority - about) will pick up the challenge and follow!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-64965693

That won't be easy though since the WECA lacks the council tax precepting powers which the other combined authorities have.  It would appear that South Gloucestershire Council will not agree to the introduction of such powers.
11  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: HS2 - Government proposals, alternative routes and general discussion on: October 04, 2023, 14:17:14
Is Portishead in Bristol?
No, it is part of the North Somerset Unitary Authority.
12  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: HS2 - Government proposals, alternative routes and general discussion on: October 04, 2023, 13:56:26
Re-investment into other transport (rather than rail) projects "across all regions of the country" ...
Looking at the list for the South West at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/find-out-about-every-new-transport-project-in-your-region it includes
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Opening more railway lines: between Cullompton and Wellington.
When in reality it will be reopening the two stations on the existing line.
13  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: May 2023 timetable on: February 01, 2023, 16:26:40
Not GWR (Great Western Railway) related (sorry!) but the XC (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) Manchester Piccadilly services are shown as hourly with some running to / from Paignton.
Also seems Plymouth is finally back to hourly throughout the day after what will have been more  than  three years with some two hour gaps in service.  Not sure about the diagramming but could this mean more single  Voyager workings?
14  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: May 2023 timetable on: February 01, 2023, 16:23:41
Do you want to try that again?  Shocked
Edited, I was thinking too much about that early arrival into Plymouth when I was typing that.

15  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: May 2023 timetable on: February 01, 2023, 15:25:13
The early morning  fast Plymouth service is no more.  Instead, there will be 0600 via Bristol service, calling at Reading, Didcot  Parkway, Swindon, Chippenham, Bath Spa, Bristol Temple Meads, Bridgwater, Taunton, Tiverton Parkway,  Exeter St Davids, Newton  Abbot, Plymouth and as then as before  to  Penzance.  This does however still provide an arrival in Plymouth  before 1000 which I believe was one of the reasons the current 0637 was introduced.

A three hour public journey time to  Plymouth will still be possible though with the 1004 to run non-stop between Reading and Exeter (as it used to do when it was the 1006 Cornish Riviera before December  2019) with a public arrival time in Plymouth of 1304 (1305 WTT (Working Time-Table)).
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