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Title: Is this how to welcome new customers to rail? Post by: grahame on August 14, 2023, 09:51:28 From a wayside station somewhere deep in the middle of a forest. I walk up to the station looking to travel on a train ...
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/hic0.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/hic1.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/hic2.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/hic3.jpg) Perhaps we should learn from Wales (Birchgrove) ... (http://www.wellho.net/pix/hic4.jpg) ... adapting that in the forest to add rail tickets to the board (http://www.wellho.net/pix/hic5.jpg) Title: Re: Is this how to welcome new customers to rail? Post by: Mark A on August 14, 2023, 10:11:00 Might be worth popping down the road as the one at Savernake GWR staion is usually ok.
Mark Title: Re: Is this how to welcome new customers to rail? Post by: ellendune on August 14, 2023, 10:24:00 Might be worth popping down the road as the one at Savernake GWR staion is usually ok. Mark But Savernake Station Closed in 1966 :o Title: Re: Is this how to welcome new customers to rail? Post by: CyclingSid on August 15, 2023, 06:55:19 The original post appears to refer to a ticket machine at Sway in the New Forest. Pop down to Savernake? That would be a serious hike (or bike).
Title: Re: Is this how to welcome new customers to rail? Post by: Marlburian on August 15, 2023, 10:58:10 But Savernake Station Closed in 1966 :o That was Savernake Low Level. High Level closed in 1958. (Which rather surprised me, that it was that late.) Title: Re: Is this how to welcome new customers to rail? Post by: Mark A on August 15, 2023, 12:03:14 Cue the word of mouth tale from John Cox, boatbuilder, on national service, and tasked with taking a platoon of soldiers from possibly Devizes to Cheltenham. Not for him the obvious route with a change at Bristol. Having checked the timetables, he boarded the platoon on to an up train at Devizes, off the train at Savernake. I can't recall if there was then a break allowed at the Savernake Forest Hotel, but what certainly followed was that a mystified platoon, possibly refreshed, received the order to proceed along the rural lane up the hill there, the mystery being resolved when the M&SWR station revealed itself - and in due course a train through to their destination.
Mark Title: Re: Is this how to welcome new customers to rail? Post by: grahame on August 15, 2023, 23:33:46 ... Not for him the obvious route with a change at Bristol. ... Got me thinking ... Midland, South West Junction, Sprat and Winkle! There were some very interesting lines to the South Coast Didcot, Newbury and Southampton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didcot,_Newbury_and_Southampton_Railway Midland and South West Junction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_and_South_Western_Junction_Railway Wessex Main Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex_Main_Line Wilts Somerset and Weymouth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilts,_Somerset_and_Weymouth_Railway Somerset and Dorset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_and_Dorset_Joint_Railway Bristol and Exeter Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_and_Exeter_Railway 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 |