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« Reply #285 on: July 06, 2016, 23:32:24 » |
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Do yell if you need any help with map licences - it's a bit of a speciality of mine, I'm afraid...
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« Reply #286 on: July 07, 2016, 08:53:55 » |
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Do yell if you need any help with map licences - it's a bit of a speciality of mine, I'm afraid...
Will do, thanks.
I've just arrived in Swindon .. a couple of hours to kill, so I walked into the bus station to check that they didn't have anything. The size of the hole emphasised by my chat with the lady there; Monday to Saturday and Sunday buses radically differ, with different operators and routes for the same part of town on Sundays, and no combined timetable. There's even a special "Swindon Sunday Timetables" booklet. Small comfort, I suppose ... there ARE Sunday buses and the information on them IS available. Town / things to do in Swindon? Not really the bus company's business; "refer to TIC▸ in library" was advise - probably the best advise to give, yet really not good. |
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« Reply #287 on: July 07, 2016, 09:01:56 » |
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Indeed if you want both of the main operators timetables you have to go to the office at the bus station for Stagecoach and then a five minute walk to Fleming Way to get Thamesdown's.
At least it is now possible to use Thamesdown smartcards on Stagecoach buses. Before you had to use your card to get a paper ticket on a Thamesdown Bus so you could show the Stagecoach driver.
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« Reply #288 on: July 07, 2016, 16:55:17 » |
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Do yell if you need any help with map licences - it's a bit of a speciality of mine, I'm afraid...
That's fantastic - thank. Having a further look today, I think lady luck may be on our side as the map base we used looks remarkable like an OS▸ Open Data set https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/using-creating-data-with-os-products/os-opendata.htmlYou are therefore able to use the OS OpenData datasets in any way and for any purpose. We simply ask that you acknowledge the copyright and the source of the data by including the following attribution statement:
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (year) So I think we just add that line. Have I read that right? |
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« Reply #289 on: September 08, 2016, 15:34:08 » |
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Harold Starr and his brother John were remembered again in Swindon today on what is the 102nd anniversary of Harold's birth. Two plaques were unveiled by relatives of the pair at the place where they were born. It was then the Central Hotel, which was an alcohol free establishment, but is now the site of a Wetherspoons, having been a cinema in between times.   |
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« Reply #290 on: September 08, 2016, 18:10:56 » |
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Crikey that really brings home the fact what short lives they really had........
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« Reply #291 on: September 14, 2016, 12:27:32 » |
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Nice touch that the nameplates are styled like the original Bullied Battle of Britain style plates.  |
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« Reply #292 on: September 14, 2016, 22:24:25 » |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #293 on: September 14, 2016, 22:30:06 » |
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« Reply #294 on: September 15, 2016, 01:23:09 » |
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I was merely offering a spelling correction.  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #295 on: October 20, 2016, 13:22:47 » |
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The Duchess of Cornwall has been in Swindon today to mark the official naming of the area outside Swindon Station as Sir Daniel Gooch Place.   One of the pubs opposite - The GW▸ - formerly the Great Western Hotel (it seems we cannot cope with long names anymore) - also has a painting of Sir Daniel.  It was a letter from Sir Daniel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel which led to the establishment of the railway works in the town and helped it grow from a small market town to a much bigger industrial one. |
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« Reply #296 on: October 20, 2016, 15:25:08 » |
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A close up of the plaque:  |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
"Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity."
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« Reply #297 on: October 20, 2016, 17:25:49 » |
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In the lower right-hand corner you can still see some sticky finger marks.  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
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« Reply #298 on: October 20, 2016, 17:32:19 » |
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How odd to name it after the local 'spoons.
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« Reply #299 on: December 23, 2016, 13:03:59 » |
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The refurbished waiting room between platforms 1 and 3 at Swindon station has opened. The opportunity has been taken to add GWR▸ branding and make the place a bit more light and airy. Access is available via automatic doors from both platforms.   |
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