Painting

[whole diary]

[Timmer]

From Decemeber, the first HST^▸ (High Speed Train) north from Bristol will be 1528

Shame that, I was hoping to be able to take an HST up to York for the day from Bristol once the new XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) timetable starts in December. Oh well just have to go via London and try Grand Central HSTs to avoid a four hour journey on a Voyager.

[devon_metro]

Take a day trip to Plymouth or something instead, depart Bristol 0944/1044/1244/1444, return 1221/1321/1521/1721

[dog box]

So as NO ONE in FGW^▸ (First Great Western) had the Wisdom to prove this, St Erth has been repainted in the Historic Colours of "SOUTH WALES AND WEST TRAINS"

WONDERFUL   

Yes I must admit I had a little chuckle when  Arriva Trains Wales repainted Cardiff Central in the historically correct colours of green and ivory as senn in the original Greater Western franchise !

ATW^▸ (Arriva Trains Wales (former TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company))) havent repainted Cardiff central at all, in fact there idea of painting is a quick spash of ATW yuck green around the bottom bit of the pillars and they have only half done that at

[John R]

What with all that and our very own nostalia trip every morning on the 0846, things are looking up for N&B.

Don't get too used to it John - according to the FGW^▸ (First Great Western) journey planner, that service isn't going to call at Nailsea nor Yatton in new timetable. 

To my surprise, it left 3 minutes early today (as evidenced currently by the report of the train on its journey north), and Yatton 2 early. Was a Voyager too, but I understand that's a 1 off.

 

[devon_metro]

Thats not on!
---------------------------scheduled-----actual---
Station ------------------arr-----dep---arr-----dep-
Yatton [YAT] ------------0839 - 0840 - 0837 - 0838    
Nailsea & Backwell [NLS] - 0845 - 0846 - 0843 - 0843

I'd complain at XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) saying you missed it if I were you!

[Chris from Nailsea]

Just a brief update:

The re-painting job on the railings and footbridge at Nailsea & Backwell is still ongoing - not helped by the wet weather, to be fair.

However, in an interesting new development, we now have a selection of silhouette pictures of human heads, in various primary colours, which have appeared on the panels of the shelters.  As they are of a far superior quality to the occasional graffiti that we get at Nailsea, I can only assume they are the supervised work of children from one of our local schools.

If this is the case, it would be great to have some formal acknowledgement of the original artists - I've not seen any notice on our new 'community noticeboard' to explain the sudden appearance of these cheerful images!

'Well done' from me, anyway!   

[Lee]

However, in an interesting new development, we now have a selection of silhouette pictures of human heads, in various primary colours, which have appeared on the panels of the shelters.  As they are of a far superior quality to the occasional graffiti that we get at Nailsea, I can only assume they are the supervised work of children from one of our local schools.

If this is the case, it would be great to have some formal acknowledgement of the original artists - I've not seen any notice on our new 'community noticeboard' to explain the sudden appearance of these cheerful images!

'Well done' from me, anyway!   

Do they look similar to this, Chris? :

[Chris from Nailsea]

Yes - quite similar, but without any text or black outlines!   

[G.Uard]

I have no evidence to support this theory, but I have been watching the repainting of Redland station, (which has been going on for some weeks).  Every time I have duties on the SB^▸ (Signal Box) line, there appears to  be a different and not wholly professional group of workers engaged on the task whilst under supervision.  Could they be offenders carrying out a Community Service Order?

[IndustryInsider]

Could they be offenders carrying out a Community Service Order?

They're probably painting over all the old grafitti with primer and undercoat, before returning in the dead of night with aerosol cans to apply the finishing 'overcoat'! 

[Lee]

However, in an interesting new development, we now have a selection of silhouette pictures of human heads, in various primary colours, which have appeared on the panels of the shelters.  As they are of a far superior quality to the occasional graffiti that we get at Nailsea, I can only assume they are the supervised work of children from one of our local schools.

If this is the case, it would be great to have some formal acknowledgement of the original artists - I've not seen any notice on our new 'community noticeboard' to explain the sudden appearance of these cheerful images!

'Well done' from me, anyway!   

Do they look similar to this, Chris? :

Yes - quite similar, but without any text or black outlines!  

Mind you, other views of Avonmouth station have now been posted on the Railway Eye blog....
http://railwayeye.blogspot.com/2008/10/railway-garden-competition-14.html

[John R]

I have no evidence to support this theory, but I have been watching the repainting of Redland station, (which has been going on for some weeks).  Every time I have duties on the SB^▸ (Signal Box) line, there appears to  be a different and not wholly professional group of workers engaged on the task whilst under supervision.  Could they be offenders carrying out a Community Service Order?

Yes they are. The FGW^▸ (First Great Western) employee (I'm not sure what his title is) told me their productivity is, er, low.

[Chris from Nailsea]

Hmmm.  Well, if they just have to serve a specified number of hours, with no particular quality control, that is only to be expected?

[Mojo]

To whoever mentioned repainting at Redland station, this is being carried out by Community Service Offenders. Many other stations have also been "done up" (not just painted) with assistance from the Probation Service.

This is all however being arranged through Severnside Community Rail Partnership, as is local station artwork. The Partnership Officer, Sarah Collins won 3rd place at the Community Rail Awards in Plymouth last month for some of the schemes she has helped to deliver with the help of the Probation Service & community groups!

[John R]

IMHO^▸ (in my humble opinion) the multicoloured blobs just look rather naff at Nailsea. If they had been done well then maybe, but the paint has run, and they give the impression of having been painted by 4 year olds in a nursery.