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« Reply #180 on: April 13, 2009, 08:07:57 » |
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Interesting to note the galvanised steel cage around it compared with all the other semaphores. No wonder it costs so much to do nothing.
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« Reply #181 on: April 14, 2009, 17:36:39 » |
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I went to Penryn on Saturday and took a number of photos of the station improvements. All the photos are here http://dcrp.fotopic.net/ It was quite a murky morning but you'll get a good idea of how things are looking there now. It's all pretty impressive. Richard Burningham Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership |
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« Reply #182 on: April 14, 2009, 17:45:44 » |
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Very good however the fact that half the platform is un-necessarily fenced off seems a bit short sighted. What if an HST▸ was to go to Falmouth for example? Ah well, i'm sure they saved lots of money by not tarmacking that section!!
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« Reply #183 on: April 14, 2009, 20:30:37 » |
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I went to Penryn on Saturday and took a number of photos of the station improvements. All the photos are here http://dcrp.fotopic.net/ It was quite a murky morning but you'll get a good idea of how things are looking there now. It's all pretty impressive. Richard Burningham Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership Excellent record of the work Richard. |
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« Reply #184 on: April 15, 2009, 00:06:41 » |
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Excellent record of the work Richard.
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« Reply #185 on: April 15, 2009, 11:42:00 » |
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Very good however the fact that half the platform is un-necessarily fenced off seems a bit short sighted. What if an HST▸ was to go to Falmouth for example? Ah well, i'm sure they saved lots of money by not tarmacking that section!!
It's actually very forward thinking to fence that part off as the kids would soon learn to drop lumps of ballast into the points if they had access to that part! |
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« Reply #186 on: April 19, 2009, 18:55:44 » |
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Went for lunch in Falmouth today and took the train.....
One issue has stuck with me though, The signalling and points ducting actually runs almost to Penmere, well south of the first up signal which is at Trescobeas. Is this a future proofing in the case of demand arrives for infrastructure work around Falmouth Docks or is there something I've missed out on.
There are incidentally no notices at Perranwell yet, advising that it's to be a request only stop in four weeks time.
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« Reply #187 on: April 20, 2009, 14:29:23 » |
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Cable trough route (ducting) runs to the farthest axle counter detection point, roughly at 310 MP▸ which is approximately 400 yards beyond the signal you mention (T9R).
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« Reply #188 on: April 20, 2009, 14:39:07 » |
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There was a few weeks ago a new length of green cable running near enough to Falmouth Town station, it was just laid on the ballast  |
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« Reply #189 on: April 23, 2009, 14:19:03 » |
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Very good news about the Falmouth branch half hourly service. But it seems very strange from a transport integration point of view when the 88 bus from Falmouth to Truro is going from half hourly to quarter hourly in the May timetable.
If the bus was a feeder for the train that seems sensible but no. At the same time of the bus frequency increase it is being speeded up by cutting out all the intermediate villages. One large village, Ponsanooth, is going from a half hourly service to two hourly.
Both are run by First but it almost looks like competition between the bus and train rather than sensible public transport.
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« Reply #190 on: April 23, 2009, 21:58:51 » |
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Unfortunately First bus and FGW▸ don't work together and the only similarity is the parent company! one thing of note is that the bus is considerably more expensive than the train, Penryn - Truro return by bus is around ^5, off-peak day return on the train is ^2.70.
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« Reply #191 on: April 23, 2009, 22:15:40 » |
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Both are run by First but it almost looks like competition between the bus and train rather than sensible public transport.
Of course that's the way DaFT» wants it. You can't have integrated public tranport systems like they do in Europe it wouldn't be British old boy. |
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« Reply #192 on: April 23, 2009, 22:45:40 » |
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And of course, if bus travel was affordable for the masses then the government would lose out on shed loads of cash to fill in that big hole they dug!!
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« Reply #193 on: April 23, 2009, 22:56:01 » |
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Still no 'this will be a request only stop from 17th May 2009' notices at Perranwell today. I'm still not sure that several people wont be left onboard as the train passes the station. Rolling stock doesn't have push buzzers and communicating with the guard within the seven mins from Truro will on the busier services be difficult.
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« Reply #194 on: April 24, 2009, 00:08:26 » |
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Well, there's request stops and request stops....
For many years, until pretty recently, the Cotswold Line halts were always shown as request stops on timetables, although on weekdays the train always stopped anyway and the conductors never bothered to do a check on departure from Oxford as to whether anyone actually wanted to get off - nor did anyone go and ask for the train to stop. Nowadays they are shown as normal stops.
I suspect you will find that the crews will use some common sense, eg stopping the late afternoon trains home from Truro as a matter of course.
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