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« Reply #45 on: December 08, 2024, 21:20:42 »
Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on December 08, 2024, 20:29:38
Fair question, Timmer.

How about a fleet of coaches being provided, as road replacement transport?

After all, they've had 24 hours to get it organised.  Roll Eyes
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VERY limited road transport is operating between Bristol Temple Meads and Salisbury, via stations on route.

What that looks like is anybody’s guess but I highly doubt it’s going to be a usable replacement for commuter train services.
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« Reply #46 on: December 09, 2024, 05:29:42 »
Bus and coach companies everywhere are struggling to find and keep drivers as it is.
There's been a steady drip of drivers leaving First Kernow and moving across to Transport for Cornwall services and operators.
First have just enough vehicles to cover school/college duties and service runs.
However, with an elderly fleet, breakdowns are also increasing, so service runs are cut to keep education services going!
No spare coaches/drivers this end of the world!
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« Reply #47 on: December 09, 2024, 05:59:55 »
Looks like someone (THANK YOU) has been working very hard fixing / checking overnight and both Chippenham and Westbury are re-opened this morning ... breaking news ...

We are going to agree to disagree about the reasonableness of having three old stations all fail in the exceptional wind.   And rather like boxing day trains, we will generate a lot of heat in discussion but in the end it's just an occasional incident ... in my view what is much more important is the safety of people at these time and secondly the ongoing "lack of crew" and "your line needed for engineering works [elsewhere]" that we're back to at my home station tomorrow!
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« Reply #48 on: December 09, 2024, 06:53:17 »
Quote from: grahame on December 09, 2024, 05:59:55
Looks like someone (THANK YOU) has been working very hard fixing / checking overnight and both Chippenham and Westbury are re-opened this morning ... breaking news ...

We are going to agree to disagree about the reasonableness of having three old stations all fail in the exceptional wind.   And rather like boxing day trains, we will generate a lot of heat in discussion but in the end it's just an occasional incident ... in my view what is much more important is the safety of people at these time and secondly the ongoing "lack of crew" and "your line needed for engineering works [elsewhere]" that we're back to at my home station tomorrow!

A remarkable recovery - it's fortunate that roofers have Sundays in the working week!  Wink
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« Reply #49 on: December 09, 2024, 12:33:45 »
Quote from: TaplowGreen on December 09, 2024, 06:53:17
A remarkable recovery - it's fortunate that roofers have Sundays in the working week!  Wink

Maybe not so much in the working week, more ££££ in their pocket!

Anything can be fixed when the offer is right.
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« Reply #50 on: December 10, 2024, 06:39:05 »
Sunday is also in the working week for power company fault finding and repair teams. Some of whom actually ENJOY storms, and the consequent overtime.
I know of one who intends to buy a house "a couple more decent storms should pay the deposit"
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It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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