Travelling last September

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Re: Travelling last September - but where?

« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2013, 08:25:19 »

Quote from: bignosemac on January 15, 2013, 07:08:00

2. Stroud

Indeed ... and that just leaves the name of the place in picture 7 ... correctly identified as the north end of the Forth Bridge; it's "North Queensferry" - the name that's also applied to the station at the north end of the bridge.


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Re: Travelling last September - but where?

« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2013, 08:35:17 »

Complete journey those weeks ...

Melksham to Weymouth / Portland and back (by road; no suitable trains)
Melksham - Cheltenham Spa - Birmingham New Street - Edinburgh Waverley - Perth.
Perth - Stirling - Haymarket - Preston - Blackpool North.
Blackpool North - Manchester Piccadilly - Cheltenham Spa - Melksham
Melksham to Worcester and back (by road, no suitable trains)

And if you've watched Four in a Bed on TV, you probably thought it was all done by road Grin

- we're on Eplsodes 1 to 5 of the current series 4 ... if you missed it, links and watch again via http://www.channel4.com/programmes/four-in-a-bed/episode-guide/series-4 .


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Re: Travelling last September - but where?

« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2014, 13:06:48 »

Quote from: grahame on January 14, 2013, 19:12:27

Quote from: rogerw on January 14, 2013, 19:07:17

Is 8 Perth (the Dundee platforms)?

Yes, it is ... September was that mad month which we started with a trip to Portland, then recored for "Four in a Bed" in Crieff, Blackpool, Melksham and Worcester in that order. And I'm proud to say we covered most of the mileage by train.

Our trip (the "Four in a Bed" show) repeats from 14:45 on More 4 this afternoon.

I will be very interested to review my words about the Melksham Train service from a time before we knew we had achieved an improvement.


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Re: Travelling last September - but where?

« Reply #18 on: June 29, 2014, 15:55:45 »

I would be interested it learn if it creates another spike in visits to your website....


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Re: Travelling last September - but where?

« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2014, 01:31:49 »

Quote from: bobm on June 29, 2014, 15:55:45

I would be interested it learn if it creates another spike in visits to your website....

392 visits in the day (graph above shows it hour by hour). Up from a maximum of 26 per day over the previous 4 weeks. The normal low volume of visitors is not necessarily a worry; if we're full some nights each week then we've got the balance roughly right.


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