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« on: April 22, 2008, 19:31:00 »
Details contained in the I Hate FGW▸ (First Great Western) blog post link below.
http://ihatefirstgreatwestern.blogspot.com/2008/04/hey-welsh-people-want-to-be-on-beeb.html
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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2008, 19:54:35 »
Maybe they will use May 17th as an example of a typical day of passenger flows between Cardiff and London. It wouldn't surprise me one bit.
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« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2008, 22:37:43 »
The programme will air on 10 June 2008.
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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2008, 18:15:42 »
BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/programmes/sites/weekinweekout/index.shtml
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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2008, 19:24:56 »
will this be on iPlayer?
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2008, 19:43:04 »
Quote from: John R on April 22, 2008, 19:54:35
Maybe they will use May 17th as an example of a typical day of passenger flows between Cardiff and London. It wouldn't surprise me one bit.

Or 4th June. Virtually every week, there is a disaster day on this route for one reason, or another

Interesting that BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Wales are able to put together a 30 minute programme on the state of of this route, but BBC West has not shown much interest.
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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2008, 20:13:02 »
Quote from: devon_metro on June 09, 2008, 19:24:56
will this be on iPlayer?

Yes
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« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2008, 20:19:58 »
Probably because BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) west usually dedicate over half their programme to 'cute' type stories or some dull 'news' magazine...
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« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2008, 18:58:44 »
The link below has quotes from tonight's BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) programme.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7444466.stm
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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2008, 00:13:38 »
Fairly superficial - typical mainstream "BBC1" stuff.  But reasonably accurate, which is not surprising given it was Christian Wolmar. I wonder whether he will be excessed for buying a standard class ticket, but after Reading the rest of the journey appeared to be in First Class? 

Not really much to do with Wales - I would suggest West of England viewers would have found the program just as interesting.
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« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2008, 07:39:14 »
Quote from: John R on June 11, 2008, 00:13:38
Fairly superficial - typical mainstream "BBC1" stuff.  But reasonably accurate, which is not surprising given it was Christian Wolmar. I wonder whether he will be excessed for buying a standard class ticket, but after Reading the rest of the journey appeared to be in First Class? 

Not really much to do with Wales - I would suggest West of England viewers would have found the program just as interesting.

I agree. However it was still well worth watching IMO▸ (in my opinion). It was also nice to see them mention other services apart from the London to Cardiff e.g. CDF» (Cardiff - next trains)-PMH.
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