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« Reply #210 on: May 15, 2009, 22:03:50 » |
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Brief reminder anyone in Falmouth tomorrow, the Penryn model will be exhibited in the Arts Centre (The Poly) in Church Street in the afternoon.
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« Reply #211 on: May 15, 2009, 23:24:36 » |
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The 15 minute bus service doesn't actually serve Posanooth and Perranwell now, it goes straight down the A39 between Tremough Campus and Carnon Downs, Perranwell, instead of having a half hourly bus to Truro now has about hourly.
From what i've been told Perranwell only gets three busses per day from monday? Competition on this line isn't really a bad thing as it will encourage people out of their cars! the new "fast" timings for the bus from monday still takes 43 minutes although the train journey time in the Truro direction is increased by 4 mins from monday! The train is far cheaper though! |
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« Reply #212 on: May 16, 2009, 06:30:56 » |
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The 15 minute bus service doesn't actually serve Posanooth and Perranwell now, it goes straight down the A39 between Tremough Campus and Carnon Downs, Perranwell, instead of having a half hourly bus to Truro now has about hourly.
From what i've been told Perranwell only gets three busses per day from monday? Competition on this line isn't really a bad thing as it will encourage people out of their cars! the new "fast" timings for the bus from monday still takes 43 minutes although the train journey time in the Truro direction is increased by 4 mins from monday! The train is far cheaper though! No, the bus is about 2 buses an hour, but they are much slower than they used to be and not at a thirty minute frequency, more like a 15 minute wait then a 45 minute wait. |
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« Reply #213 on: May 17, 2009, 20:15:18 » |
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Well tomorrow is the big day. I have purchased a rover ticket so will be going up and down the line several times and will report back in the evening.
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« Reply #214 on: May 17, 2009, 21:31:26 » |
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Indeed: have a great day, RailCornwall!  Coverage from The Falmouth Packet, at http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/4372883.Penryn_rail_loop_opens_tomorrow/ |
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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 #215 on: May 17, 2009, 22:57:03 » |
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Has anyone got any recent photos of the station?
Mark
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« Reply #216 on: May 18, 2009, 18:07:03 » |
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Apparently all went well this morning, single 153's handled it fine, no overcrowding, no delays...
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« Reply #217 on: May 18, 2009, 18:48:58 » |
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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 #218 on: May 18, 2009, 20:44:04 » |
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Excellent day all around ....
The 0920 ex Truro had 5 pax. Major drop off of the day imo as far as First were concerned has to be the use of a Western Greyhound bus (albeit one of the swish Merc's from Truro's Park and Ride) to ferry the VIPs and others from Penryn to Tremough Campus for lunch.
... used my rover extensively in the morning was comfortable throughout and met with the big cheeses too. Had the ear of Charles Howeson on board the Truro > Penryn and return service too.
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« Reply #219 on: May 18, 2009, 21:45:08 » |
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Well lets put some things straight, the current service is actually 2 hourly near enough during the day and uses 2x153's coupled, there are currently 12 trains per day, the new timetable has I believe 27 trains per day, the 0755 from Fal usually loads around 100 passengers on arrival at Truro, if there were another service 30 mins later then it would spread the load. As it is now, after the 0755 trip you can usually just about manage when there is a 153 on the branch, with double the trains then there will be more empty seats to fill.
"Load spreading" may not happen - it didn't with Virgin. Obviously not, as Vacman's predictions appear to be correct. Have you ever even travelled on the Fal to make a justified comment? |
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« Reply #220 on: May 19, 2009, 15:30:57 » |
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The "load spreading" worked well indeed! one unit failed this morning though so only hourly service for a couple of hours, another unit (a 150!) was sent up about 1000.
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« Reply #221 on: May 19, 2009, 16:18:35 » |
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With 5 units employed daily on branch lines between Liskeard and St Erth, Cornwall could do with a "ThunderDMU" stabled at Truro.
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« Reply #222 on: May 19, 2009, 16:38:03 » |
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With 5 units employed daily on branch lines between Liskeard and St Erth, Cornwall could do with a "ThunderDMU" stabled at Truro.
There is a spare kept at Plymouth for most of the day but Turo or Par would probably be better, Par would be ideal as it could be used for last minute strengthening of the Newquay, quite often we get caught out on the Newquay when a down HST▸ drops it's load at Par! Today part of the St Ives 4 car set was pinched for the Fal, luckily St Ives is now booked 4 car until 6 September! last year and years previous it was only 4 car in high summer! |
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« Reply #223 on: May 20, 2009, 17:34:37 » |
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From what you say, Par sounds like the better site. Even if it stays at Plymouth overnight, it could run down & back as a stopper.
St Ives can probably manage without a 4-car set for a few weeks at the moment but it won't be so easy when high season hits.
Any news on how today's service on the Falmouth branch has been going in terms of load spreading?
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« Reply #224 on: May 20, 2009, 19:42:57 » |
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Things a lot better today although we lost one late-morning (2F75/2T75) round trip due to driver displacement from an earlier failed HST▸ at Plymouth
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