Great Western Coffee Shop

Spot the problem... ;D :o

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Haha! Looks like someone at FGW needs to go on a spellun nishative.

'Intrest' indeed ;D

Why not just simplify it to read, 'For your safety please do not use your mobile phone on the stairs'?

It's a valid message, too, bearing mind the poor chap at Ealing who was apparently using his mobile, walked too near the edge of the platform and was sucked under a train.  :o

how long before some one trips or slips due to reading this while walking down the stairs?

Another one - in three parts:

1.  Where was this picture taken?  ;)

2.  What is the mistake in the wording?  :D

3.  What was the name of the pigeon / seagull who criticized it so appropriately?  ;D

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Bath Spa...?

Yes, photo taken at the western end of the down platform. ;)

I'll let you off naming the naughty bird - but the mistake in the wording is ... ??  ;D

Apart from the mention of class 180 trains, I'm guessing it's the slightly alarming statement that the train will be on the platform for two minutes.

If they can get it off the platform and back off the rails in that short a space of time I'm impressed. Shades of the old joke "The next train to arrive on platform 8 will be the 1135 service to Birmingham New Street; passengers on platforms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 please stand clear as this train will be coming in sideways".

Judging by the spread of the apparant splatter... :o I would estimate the bird in question to be of the large variety travelling towards the Bear Flat area of Bath... Possibly just alighted the 11:25 Service... Possibly a faredodging bird as he clearly didn't go through the ticket barriers in the Station Entrance... ;D

So this leads me to believe, It was none other than Bob the Seagull... ;D

 ;D

The last five words on that notice ... doesn't anyone check such text, before it's turned into a laminated poster, preserving the author's careless mistake for posterity ... ?  ::)

Chris. Thank you for you spotting of the error.  :D

No problem!  :)

To be fair, FGW are usually polite (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=4618.msg40659#msg40659) ...  ;D

Again... Spot the problem... ;D

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On reflection, that looks like Chippenham .... and on further reflection, that's not the question you asked  ;)

It is indeed Chippenham... ;D

But there is a crucial error in the poster... As a hint, it would certainly not get you that A grade at GCSE ;)

"On the advice the of British Transport Police"  ::)

Shouldn't there also be a comma or some other punctuation after the word Police in that sentence?

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What I want to know is how do you remove valuables from your car after you've locked it?  Smash a window?

Apart from the typos, interesting route there... although last time I looked Temple Meads is still just down the road from me, they don't seem to have moved it to somewhere past Camarthen...

Some services to and from Bristol TM were included, as they were extended to or started from Cardiff.  I suspect it is a statutory requirement to put posters up at every station where there are trains calling affected by the ban, so perfectly reasonable why there were posters at Chippenham.   

Any ideas why on Friday 14 May when I was at Cardiff Central the departure boards were advising that all services on te Bargoed/Rhymney branch that day were dry...?

It was the first day for many years that it hasn't rained in Wales?




...coat

Surely if such is the case, you would not need your coat? :p

The upper valleys (above Bargoed/Pontypridd I think) are always shown as dry... as far as I know it's a byelaw to reduce anti-social behaviour.

does that not say more about the welsh valley inhabitants than the train service

correct.  Even at 8am they are announced as dry at Cardiff Central.  Does rather advertise the fact that the areas ahve their problems

Are we sure "dry" isn't Welsh for "late" or "delayed" or something?!