Well done FGW!

Chris from Nailsea

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Re: Well done FGW!

« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2009, 23:00:47 »

Hmm. John, I do sympathise. It's obviously of no comfort to you, after your probably horrendous journey home, but services between Didcot and Swindon were announced as 'back to normal' at about 20:47 (it's just disappeared from the foot of the list of 'Live updates' on the FGW^▸ site). Roll Eyes

It does seem to have been a really bad couple of days all across the FGW area: see http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/running.php Shocked


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Re: Well done FGW!

« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2009, 23:02:55 »

Yes Chris such a fun couple of days Grin


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Chris from Nailsea

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Re: Well done FGW!

« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2009, 23:09:41 »

From which, I rather assume, Ollie, that you didn't have the good fortune of G.Uard?

Quote from: G.Uard on February 03, 2009, 10:25:20

Haven't I been lucky with rest days this week! Grin


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Re: Well done FGW!

« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2009, 00:40:02 »

Quote from: G.Uard on February 03, 2009, 07:50:30

Quote from: devon_metro on February 02, 2009, 16:21:39

All Tube depots are outside, its lucky that Walthamstow wasn't covered in snow otherwise the Victoria line would be suspended too.

Just to be pedantic, the Waterloo & City is entirely underground, including its depot. However, the depot has no direct rail connection and vehicles requiring heavy maintenance are lifted to the surface by a specially adapted road crane, via a purpose built shaft.

Though they didn't have to go through this cumbersome procedure until Waterloo International was built, as there was a coach lift down to the W&C but its site disappeared under the new station, hence the carry-on with cranes. There's a film clip here of them using it in 1940 to remove the original US-built trains and deliver the new Southern stock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhLPiFJROSg


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Re: Well done FGW!

« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2009, 08:36:54 »

Well they've done it again....I have to congratulate FGW^▸ twice in a week! The trains are a bit messed up this morning with all sorts of delays but somebody had the idea of amending the 06:53 (I think) stopper from Maidenhead to just do Taplow-Slough-Paddington instead of stopping at every station. This provided a fast journey into Paddington without the major overcrowding that I believe happened on Tuesday.

Don't know who it was....but thank you!

Oh, and well done to the Maidenhead staff who've been keeping the station platforms clear of snow (unlike several other stations).


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