Title: Where's my timetable? Post by: grahame on October 25, 2012, 06:42:51 From the late Victorian era - from a reprint of Bradshaw's. Can you identify the stations who's services I am describing?
1. Departures at 08:02, 11:05, 13:50, 15:12, 18:12 and 20:05 for Temple Meads ... journey time (of best journey) around 40 minutes. 2. Departures to Weymouth at 06:35 (*), 09:55 (*), 11:30, 13:25, 14:35 (*), 17:32 and 20:02 (also non-stop service passes through to Weymouth at around 23:45). Trains marked (*) involve a change at an intermediate station. 11:30 gets to Weymouth at 14:30, 13:25 gets there at 15:45. Sunday - just one train at 18:45 (*) 3. Departures at 08:24, 10:05, 11:13 (express), 14:26, 16:06 17:32 and 20:17 to Exeter, 07:44 and 20:17 on Sundays. The express service takes 77 minutes, others around 92 minutes. An extra train at 07:30 on Fridays doesn't go all the way. 4. Through services to Paddington at 07:50, 09:35, 11:38, 12:13, 13:54, 15:00, 15:43, 16:40, 17:50, 19:26 and 00:45. On Sundays at 13:45, 18:15 and 00:45. Journey time examples - 15:00 arrives at 18:03 and 00:45 arrives at 04:00 5. Only departures at 11:00 and 17:00 each day, 6.75 mile journey taking 30 minutes. Title: Re: Where's my timetable? Post by: grahame on October 26, 2012, 02:33:02 Perhaps I've made that a bit too obscure / hard to guess, or a bit too boring :-\ ... I was certainly interested to see how the pattern of services has changed over 117 years.
1. Avonmouth to Bristol Temple Meads 2. Chippenham to Weymouth 3. Barnstaple (Junction as it was called) to Exeter 4. Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington 5. Looe (to Moorswater rather than Liskeard in those days) This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |