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« on: January 30, 2015, 14:10:55 »
In an article in the Maidenhead Advertiser 30/1 hyping house price rises due to Croissrail Im puzzled by a comment in that passengers from Burnham will save 8 minutes and those from Taplow 13 minutes.

Now as I understand it Burnham and Taplow will be served by the same train so that to save the extra five minutes from Taplow it will have do the run in negative time. Now it may be possible to squeeze a minute out of the current 3 minute running time but the extra 4!
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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2015, 20:34:52 »
The new vehicles are being built by DeLorean... Wink
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2015, 20:50:34 »
Maybe the quotedsaving is coming *from* London?
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2015, 14:05:20 »
Quote from: ChrisB on January 30, 2015, 20:50:34
Maybe the quotedsaving is coming *from* London?

That's it! I always thought there was black hole between Burnham and Taplow!
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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2015, 11:44:42 »
Quote from: eightf48544 on January 31, 2015, 14:05:20
Quote from: ChrisB on January 30, 2015, 20:50:34
Maybe the quotedsaving is coming *from* London?

That's it! I always thought there was black hole between Burnham and Taplow!

Yes its just by Fyffes Bananas  Grin
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