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« Reply #405 on: October 27, 2015, 08:35:44 » |
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Why would anyone get off at Maidenhead?  There's very little to recommend it to be honest, although it does have the oldest continually used football stadium in the World (Maidenhead Utd, York Road) if that's your sort of thing, and a smattering of half decent pubs. |
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« Reply #407 on: October 27, 2015, 13:38:02 » |
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Why would anyone get off at Maidenhead? Why, to have my lunch at the Waterside of course.....  I wish I could afford lunch there! (or the Fat Duck/Hinds Head down the road!) |
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« Reply #408 on: October 31, 2015, 10:48:10 » |
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The Maidenhead Advertiser of 29th has a couple 3 railway related pieces.
The one relevant to this thread is 28 days lost to rail signal failures.
Main point that were 40,637 minutes of delays between Padd and Reading, from Jan to Aug. Caused by 221 failures. 184 mins av!
This compares with 2014 with 46,164 mins from 292 failures. Av 158 mins.
They then go to say what you could have done with the time. One that struck me was fly to New York 58 times.
I'll post the othes under Electrification of TV▸ Branches and Crossrail.
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« Reply #409 on: November 02, 2015, 17:46:54 » |
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There are delays out of Paddington again tonight. The Reading bound relief line was closed earlier due to signalling issues (again). It looks like it's all open again now but I expect it'll take a while for the service to get back to normal again
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« Reply #410 on: November 02, 2015, 18:29:22 » |
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Yep, I got the 1715 from Paddington which crawled along snail like to Burnham, still here waiting for a connection to Taplow....best part of an hour, not a single announcement or apology from the driver. I'm assuming he's one of those still waiting to be painted green.
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« Reply #411 on: November 02, 2015, 18:58:24 » |
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not a single announcement or apology from the driver.
The only excuse for a driver not to apologise (and give a reason if he/she knows) is because the train is running under cautionary signals (i.e. single yellow or double yellow), or braking for a station. That can sometimes happen when trains are moving but it's very congested. However, in the case of your train this evening it looks from the running schedules that it was 'on greens' all the way from Ealing where it was 16 minutes late, before terminating at Maidenhead 13 minutes late, so there was no excuse for not making an announcement. A points failure at Acton West is being listed as the reason. |
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« Reply #412 on: November 02, 2015, 20:30:40 » |
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I'm just catching up on Chris Tarrant's train ride through Cuba, which puts this all into a certain perspective. ("What time is the next train?" "Tuesday. Maybe.")
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« Reply #413 on: November 02, 2015, 20:47:15 » |
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I'm just catching up on Chris Tarrant's train ride through Cuba, which puts this all into a certain perspective. ("What time is the next train?" "Tuesday. Maybe.")
...........I didn't know First Group ran Castro's trains? .......at least I could have a nice cigar whilst I waited! |
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« Reply #414 on: November 02, 2015, 20:52:33 » |
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.......at least I could have a nice cigar whilst I waited!
An avenue of pleasure long closed to me. I have smoked nothing except salmon, not even tobacco, since Sunday 12 May 1991. |
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« Reply #415 on: November 03, 2015, 06:35:46 » |
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.....another day.....
Alterations to services between Slough and Reading
Due to a problem currently under investigation between Slough and Reading the Reading bound slow line is blocked.
Impact
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 20 mins or revised. Disruption is expected until 09:00 03/11.
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« Reply #416 on: November 03, 2015, 06:54:39 » |
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.....another day.....
Alterations to services between Slough and Reading
Due to a problem currently under investigation between Slough and Reading the Reading bound slow line is blocked.
Impact
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 20 mins or revised. Disruption is expected until 09:00 03/11.
Freight train SPAD▸ in the Maidenhead area. |
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« Reply #417 on: November 03, 2015, 07:10:38 » |
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.....another day.....
Alterations to services between Slough and Reading
Due to a problem currently under investigation between Slough and Reading the Reading bound slow line is blocked.
Impact
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 20 mins or revised. Disruption is expected until 09:00 03/11.
Freight train SPAD▸ in the Maidenhead area. twitter saying "broken down freight train", NR» saying "problem under investigation"..........my money's on BNM's theory! |
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« Reply #418 on: November 03, 2015, 10:01:16 » |
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Yes, BMN is right. Although it was at Ruscombe, so nearer Twyford than Maidenhead.
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« Reply #419 on: November 03, 2015, 13:26:21 » |
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Yes, BMN is right. Although it was at Ruscombe, so nearer Twyford than Maidenhead.
Smacked bottom for someone then? Would the freight company get clobbered for the delay minutes or would NR» have to go after them for it? |
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