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« Reply #120 on: May 19, 2009, 18:45:43 » |
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I had a similar situation last Friday with the 16:44 Service to Penzance at Bristol... Was booked for Platform 10... Little did we know that further up the line on Platform 9, A 158 decided to take up residence...  2 minutes before the train was due to leave... "Attention Please, This is a Platform Alteration" changed to platform 8... A Surge of bodies heads for platform 8 just as the pax from the 16:44 Surge into the Subway... Not Fun  |
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« Reply #121 on: May 19, 2009, 22:42:40 » |
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I had a similar situation last Friday with the 16:44 Service to Penzance at Bristol... Was booked for Platform 10... Little did we know that further up the line on Platform 9, A 158 decided to take up residence... 2 minutes before the train was due to leave... "Attention Please, This is a Platform Alteration" changed to platform 8... A Surge of bodies heads for platform 8 just as the pax from the 16:44 Surge into the Subway... Not Fun Brings back memories East Croydon early 60s around 08:00 Victoria passengers on 1 London Bridge on 3/4. Trains come up from Coulsdon on the wrong lines. Chaos. The best place to be when that happened was in the box. I did wonder sometimes whether it really was chance or skilful regulation. |
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« Reply #122 on: May 19, 2009, 23:05:47 » |
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thats a good point at busy stations is the infor system goes down... on the hst's there is no destination display like the voyagers and they nolonger use the printed list of stops for the windows
They do! There are printed stickers in most HST▸ windows! Except in the case of a set swap - like last night seems to be i only travel on fgw hst's that are london bound maybe they dont have the resources/facilitys to apply these at plymouth paignton or penzance |
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« Reply #123 on: May 19, 2009, 23:52:43 » |
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thats a good point at busy stations is the infor system goes down... on the hst's there is no destination display like the voyagers and they nolonger use the printed list of stops for the windows
They do! There are printed stickers in most HST▸ windows! Except in the case of a set swap - like last night seems to be i only travel on fgw hst's that are london bound maybe they dont have the resources/facilitys to apply these at plymouth paignton or penzance Or ......... east bound HST's only really have one destination! Intermediate stops may/may not change but these days I suspect are more consistent than not. So the benefit of stickers on London bound HST's are of limited use? |
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"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
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« Reply #125 on: May 20, 2009, 00:48:23 » |
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Agreed: west-bound HSTs▸ still have window stickers, as they warn of the shorter platforms, for the benefit of those intending to alight, at (for example) Nailsea & Backwell, Yatton ... |
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« Reply #126 on: May 20, 2009, 17:01:50 » |
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« Reply #127 on: May 20, 2009, 17:49:46 » |
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it could be on a huge poster infront of the door saying do not use this door at ''some station'' due to short platforms and you would still see people trying to get off... an example is the end doors on class 159/158's which are locked and have an illuminated sign above them however you still see people jabbing at the button then you hear bep bep bep bep bep and they run to the other end  |
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« Reply #128 on: May 20, 2009, 19:13:18 » |
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thats a good point at busy stations is the infor system goes down... on the hst's there is no destination display like the voyagers and they nolonger use the printed list of stops for the windows
They do! There are printed stickers in most HST▸ windows! Except in the case of a set swap - like last night seems to be i only travel on fgw hst's that are london bound maybe they dont have the resources/facilitys to apply these at plymouth paignton or penzance Load of tosh... all HST services should have them. The PLY» - PAD» I was on this morning had them. Laira and Exeter haven't suddenly lost the ability to stick some window labels on |
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« Reply #129 on: May 20, 2009, 19:15:51 » |
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Especially when it is the same people night after night! |
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« Reply #131 on: May 20, 2009, 20:25:25 » |
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maybee im blind then  Might explain the typos |
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« Reply #132 on: May 20, 2009, 20:35:46 » |
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no thats caused by sidmouth college and a couple of missing basepair sequences, anyway moving back to topic is there an rough guesstimate on number of fair dodgers
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« Reply #133 on: May 20, 2009, 20:58:28 » |
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fair dodgers Are you sure you don't mean 'fare dodgems'? |
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« Reply #134 on: May 20, 2009, 22:32:45 » |
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Window labels are always applied at Penzance
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