Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
 Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 19:35 19 Apr 2025
 
- Race Across the World winner on 'authentic travel' and how to do it
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]		 10/05/25 - BRTA Westbury
10/05/25 - Model Railsay Show, Calne
13/05/25 - Melksham TUG / AGM
14/05/25 - West Wiltshire RUG

On this day
19th Apr (1938)
Foundation, Beatties of London (link)
Train RunningCancelled
20:45 Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth
21:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Westbury
21:32 Cheltenham Spa to Swindon
22:39 Swindon to Gloucester
Short Run
15:00 Cardiff Central to Penzance
17:27 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
18:12 Salisbury to Cheltenham Spa
18:27 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
18:52 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
•
PollsThere are no open or recent polls
•
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
•
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
•
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
•
Train companiesSelect from:
GWR
SWR
XC
Chiltern
TfL
TfW
WMR
Southern
• Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street
April 19, 2025, 19:44:25 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[122] FOSS and FOSW validity - some quirks
[120] St Erth station - facilities, footbridge, improvements, incide...
[92] Fifteen years of the Transwilts CRP
[80] Wiltshire Day Rover - new multi-operator bus ticket
[56] Annoying / amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos t...
[49] Across the South West over Easter - trains in pictures
 
News: the Great Western Coffee Shop ... keeping you up to date with travel around the South West
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Great Western Coffee Shop > All across the Great Western territory > Across the West > Well would you believe it??
Pages: 1 ... 10 11 [12]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Well would you believe it??  (Read 53756 times)
vacman
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 2530


View Profile
« Reply #165 on: February 24, 2008, 21:22:55 »
My hearts bleeding too. Wink
Logged
r james
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 223


View Profile
« Reply #166 on: February 24, 2008, 21:27:32 »
Hehe!  To be fair, I do know what its like.  On a trip to Bognor Regis, I had to put p with a 2 car 158 to Southampton, and it was really really crowded!  Not fun!! 
Logged
DanielP
Full Member
***
Posts: 35


View Profile
« Reply #167 on: February 24, 2008, 23:42:54 »
I have been a victim of FGW▸ (First Great Western) many times.  Grin Grin

The problem is that where "privatisation" (har har har) has fragmented the system, we have lots of seperate arguments for additional stock + route developments from various different areas. What we need is one concerted and holistic argument from all areas, not lots of factions. We are falling into the trap of believing DaFT» (Department for Transport - critical sounding abbreviation I discourage - about) that Northern, EMT» (East Midlands Trains - about), FGW, Arriva and Co should be squabbling over insufficent units. Each gain for one is at the expense of another. What we need is a campaign for a mass order of Turbostars (or something) to be placed soon so that many of the current capacity issues can be zapped in one go AS WELL AS individual local campaigns.

I would heartily support an urban metro in Bristol and cannot believe that there is no station at Portishead yet. However, when a proper Bristol metro is up and running, the level of wear and tear on units will not be as high as the VL.

See post #130 for the amount of nodding the Welsh pacers do- Arriva squeeze major untilisation out of them on heavily loaded, steeply graded lines- they definately need something better before the poor nodders fall apart!

Daniel
Logged
smithy
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 471


View Profile
« Reply #168 on: February 26, 2008, 16:22:48 »
officially announced today about the 5 class 150's coming to fgw to allow 158 3 cars to be made again.

hate to say it but told you so shazz as did vacman
Logged
Lee
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 7519


GBR - The Emperor's New Rail Network


View Profile WWW
« Reply #169 on: February 26, 2008, 16:23:55 »
Quote from: smithy on February 26, 2008, 16:22:48
officially announced today about the 5 class 150's coming to fgw to allow 158 3 cars to be made again.

hate to say it but told you so shazz as did vacman

See also link below.
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=1862.msg13465#msg13465
Logged
Vous devez être impitoyable, parce que ces gens sont des salauds - https://looka.com/s/78722877
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: 1 ... 10 11 [12]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules via admin@railcustomer.info. Full legal statement (here).

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page