Red Squirrel
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There are some who call me... Tim
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« on: May 20, 2020, 19:35:51 » |
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Geoff Marshall, of 'All The Stations' and 'Londonist' fame, has just posted on YouTube lamenting that it's 57 days since last he caught a train. I miss trains too, Geoff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0IC8uWGrVU |
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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Bmblbzzz
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2020, 11:53:30 » |
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Yes... I have managed to see at least one train a fortnight, I reckon!
(and, err, diversion but... highly tokenistic PPE alert about 50 seconds in!)
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Waiting at Pilning for the midnight sleeper to Prague.
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Bmblbzzz
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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2020, 11:57:04 » |
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Oh and, "You can go to a random station just for the sake of it, and that can give you a mental lift."  |
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Waiting at Pilning for the midnight sleeper to Prague.
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CyclingSid
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« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2020, 13:49:36 » |
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Living in Reading I get to see trains most days. I find it depressing that my indicator of the economic health of the nation, number of containers on a train, suggests we are in a pretty bad way. Possibly lower numbers than after 2008. But my sample is always small and probably not statistically reliable.
But even more depressing is not being to get on a train and get out of Reading.
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rogerw
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« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2020, 15:00:53 » |
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Over 13 weeks since I was last on a main line train although I did manage a trip on the GWSR the week before its closure
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I like to travel. It lets me feel I'm getting somewhere.
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LiskeardRich
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« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2020, 15:10:08 » |
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17th March. Liskeard to st Austell to collect a car,
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All posts are my own personal believes, opinions and understandings!
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RichardB
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« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2020, 16:08:24 » |
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9th March for me. We had the Devon Rail Forum in Exeter that afternoon.
I reckon this is now the longest gap between train trips for me since I was 11! Let's just say the trains in my then Surrey patch were 4SUBs and 4EPBs when I did go on one.
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Thatcham Crossing
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« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2020, 16:38:49 » |
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13th March on an evening trip into Paddington and return to Thatcham.
Arrived at Paddington thinking it was a bit quiet for a Friday evening at around 5pm, but bet it was a lot busier than it is now.
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Reginald25
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« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2020, 17:17:45 » |
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2nd March for me, to Taunton for TWSW»
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bobm
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« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2020, 21:43:18 » |
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16th March - inevitably on a Pullman.
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ellendune
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« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2020, 22:50:43 » |
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27th February to London and back
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MVR S&T
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2020, 23:11:16 » |
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Not sure, think it was a trip to Poole from Hinton Admiral, in March, to use my Wetherspoons beer vouchers, as I could see what was coming. did not use them all, they were recycled.
The talk is that there will only be 30% of pubs left trading this summer.
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eightonedee
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« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2020, 13:54:14 » |
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20th March = last commute by train to Guildford
Seems a long time ago now......
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PhilWakely
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« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2020, 13:59:07 » |
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18th March 17:45 Newton Abbot to Polsloe Bridge
who knows when the next will be!
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ray951
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« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2020, 16:21:18 » |
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17th March Didcot to Oxford and back.
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