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1  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Branch Lines doing well on: June 10, 2009, 00:02:02
numbers for both easter and spring bank holiday well up on 2008. Cool
2  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Reading Platform 4 on: March 04, 2009, 09:48:49
500 staff to dispatch the same train as one person in cornwall and sell tickets to boot Cry
3  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Possession St Erth - Penzance week at the end Mar 2009 on: February 20, 2009, 17:27:11
I think you will find the blockade will be between St Austell and Penzance Angry
4  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: st ives branch on: May 31, 2008, 01:04:58
word of warning to anyone traveling on the st ives on saturday the new postcard type timetable is wrong they have just copied the mon to fri times which are different to saturdays.
5  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: st ives branch on: May 31, 2008, 00:52:40
the half hourly timetable was the best thing that happened to the branch perfect for moving large passenger numbers all thats needed to make it right is to sought out the fares Wink
6  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: st ives branch on: May 27, 2008, 23:18:36
2x150 sat sun mon 150x1 today half term all week.
7  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / St Ives Line - engineering work, closures, incidents (merged topics) on: May 27, 2008, 23:07:08
FGW (First Great Western) gets it wrong again Angry every train full and passengers left behind anybody else down there today.
8  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: DMU seating capacities on: May 12, 2008, 00:35:40
seating on the 153 and 150,s are just the same after the referbs, thank god Wink
9  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Hayle on: April 26, 2008, 21:01:52
tribute and advantix gave it as stopping loads of people waiting to go to camboune  Angry probably there busiest day of the year.
10  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Hayle on: April 26, 2008, 20:42:32
anyone know weather or not the 12.50 pnz to plymouth should have stopped at hayle today, screens and anoucements all said yes train manager said yes but just went through no stop. Huh
11  All across the Great Western territory / Who's who on Western railways / Re: Oh! Mr Porter? on: April 26, 2008, 01:06:41
fgw do ask station staff to look out for customers having problems with luggage and to help them whenever possible and to do it with a smile Grin
12  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Saltash Station and Saltash Rail Users Group (merged topics) on: April 22, 2008, 07:55:24
i know how you feel Angry
13  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Saltash Station and Saltash Rail Users Group (merged topics) on: April 22, 2008, 07:05:57
the reason they terminated it at truro was to do a unit swop with the falmouth which had failed due to fumes in the cab. thats still no excuse for leaving passengers scatching there heads thinking my train has just vanished Huh
14  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Saltash Station and Saltash Rail Users Group (merged topics) on: April 21, 2008, 00:26:17
never mind about how many and what units it should have been what about the passengers just left stranded untill yhe next service turns up but dont stop at there destination Angry Angry
15  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Saltash Station and Saltash Rail Users Group (merged topics) on: April 20, 2008, 00:56:51
yes there proberly were passengers waiting between pnz and tru, st erth unmanned hayle camborne all unmanned passengers just left stranded screens showing next availble. same happened last friday.
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