Whoops! Where did that railway line come from?

Lee

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Whoops! Where did that railway line come from?

« on: June 18, 2007, 13:10:28 »

Commuters were delighted when First Great Western issued a leaflet advertising a new service linking two towns in Cornwall (link below.)
http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/06/whoops_where_did_that_railway.html#more

First Great Western sent out the map showing a direct line between Falmouth and Redruth - a development that would help to ease travel problems in Cornwall.

There was only one problem - the line does not exist.

Bosses noticed the mistake only after customers began enquiring when the new service would start.


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Re: Whoops! Where did that railway line come from?

« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2007, 09:56:26 »

Julian Crowe of FGW^▸ puts a brave face on things in the article below.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6764181.stm


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Re: Whoops! Where did that railway line come from?

« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2007, 17:22:19 »

Some heads at FGW^▸ really do need a good bashing especially in their publicity department who no longer publish the very useful weekend timetable alteration booklets anymore and just have a endless useless list of engineering works listed on the website with no details of amended services, whats the point?


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