Great Western Coffee Shop

No pictures... Lets see how many of you have been paying attention to what I post... ;) :D

This used to be my stomping ground on this line for 18 months... I travelled with FGW mostly on a ^3.30 ticket out and ^5.00 ticket return... I passed through this place around 18:25 most evenings. It's also the home of one of CfN's most famous April Fools Day jokes...!

Where am I passing through right now??

taunton? lol

Hmm.  ::)

By a quite remarkable coincidence, I boarded a train at NLS this afternoon, on my way into BRI - and found myself being invited to join Mookiemoo at her 'table for four'!  :o

To be fair, it was a table for four on a 150, not on an HST in First Class.  :P

However, it did give me the opportunity to point out to her the lovely old station buildings at Flax Bourton, which were the subject of my April Fool topic (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=4470.0), a couple of years ago, and to which 'thetrout' is referring here.  ;D

Chris.  ;) :D

Correct CfN, It was Flax Bourton

Was on the 21:33 Weston-Super-Mud - Bristol Temple Meads service :)

Incidentally, Flax Bourton Station gets a mention in A lyrical memorial to some of the stations closed by 'The Beeching Report' - an archive film (http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7319.shtml), first broadcast in 1963, from the BBC.  ;)

Nice find there Chris.  ;)

Lots of stations that could be in Coffee Shop land are mentioned in that archive video. A few of which survived the Doctor's axe.