According to a post on a 'gen' group that I am on, it was a Paddington to Penzance service that was heavily delayed by the aforementioned trespass incident [believed to have been between Paddington & Reading ,not 100% sure on the location], with the Newquay to Paddington service terminated at Plymouth with the IET^▸ (Intercity Express Train) unit [800308?] from that service used to restart the Penzance bound service from Plymouth.

John,

According to info on the rovers/rangers section on BRFares.com, the code(s) for ranger tickets in the Thames Valley are:

I066 - Thames Branches Day Ranger
I784 - Kennet Day Ranger
I080 - Cherwell Reading Day Ranger [Banbury-Reading]
I078 - Cherwell Didcot Day Ranger [Banbury-Didcot]
I079 - Cherwell Oxford Day Ranger [Banbury-Oxford]
I432 - Oxfordshire Day Ranger

HTH
<JG>

The gatelines are in place, and, according to a member of staff at the ticket office go into operation from this coming friday, 21 December.

2 Photos of the ticket office gateline below (apologies for the poor quality photos, taken on my phone):





I didn't have time to go & see the down side gateline, will hope to over the next few days.

<JG>

Putting public transport into doesn't work, because the desire of the management of private companies for profit.

It is virtually impossible to run a reliable public transport system for profit because the cost ratio (incoming/outgoing) is such that unless you hike fares and/or reduce expenditure makes it unfeasible to do so.

Cable theft in the Gloucester area.
Car on the line near Totnes (handbrake failure to blame).
Overrunning engineering works in the Westbury area.

Yes, it does seem a bit pointless spending money doing up the Bus station there when a lot of the services that use it seem likely for the chop.

Absolute maniac.


If you look at the time at the bottom right of the picture the bike is thown onto the track approx 17:57:45 and the DMU^▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) passes at about 18:00:30-18:00:45, around 3 mins later.

No FC^‡(resolve) available for any part of that journey, hence the false FC fare.

A celebrity for all the wrong reasons!

LOL^▸ (laughing out loud)!

Some interesting/excellent photos there, Graham.

Buses - 12

Trains - about 16

Yes, about one mile west of Norton Fitzwarren