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Fire crews were called to help free the man who became trapped under the train at Torre Station in Torquay (link below.) http://thisisdevon.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=143632&command=displayContent&sourceNode=142719&contentPK=17983584&folderPk=91672&pNodeId=201778All services in and out of the station were cancelled while investigators made inquiries at the scene yesterday (31/07/2007.) A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "Initially, it was thought the man was sat on the edge of the platform with his legs over the sides but after studying CCTV▸ images, it appears the man may have been picking up a cigarette butt." The injured person was then taken to Torbay Hospital with serious leg injuries. |
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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2007, 12:28:23 » |
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WTF was he doing on the track, for whatever reason it was, surley people know not to go on the track.I think people like this should be made to pay the delay minutes themselves!
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Cheers Jim  AG's most famous quote "It'll be better next week" |
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2007, 17:33:21 » |
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Thank god Torbay Hospital is only 2 minutes around the corner!
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Lee
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« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2008, 23:13:57 » |
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Torquay Railway Station could be given a new lease of life in revamp plans by Network Rail (link below.) http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Revamp-signal-railway-heyday-return/article-387960-detail/article.htmlThe company wants to create six office and retail units at the now disused rooms in the platform building at Solsbro Road. They say that converting 16 rooms, including the former first class ladies waiting room, booking room, boiler house and coal store will halt the decline of the grade II listed building. |
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« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2008, 09:56:17 » |
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Why?
Torre station is far closer to any signs of economy in Torquay. Torquay station sits at the bottom of an area of housing and on the other side a beach.
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« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2008, 20:56:30 » |
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Love this only because it brings on a bout of nostalgia. My late grandparents lived in Torquay from 1939 to 1972 and my parents and I used to visit them nearly every school holiday. I well remember going with my mother on the Torbay Express in the late 1950s/early 1960s from Paddington to Torquay and back.
Remember the thrill at platform 1 at Paddington if a locomotive with high tender backed on to the train as high tender meant a King. Also still remember a summer's day at Dawlish when the driver went for a roaring start so as to scatter hot ash across the beach and scatter the swunbathers - 'fraid was cheap thrill for a seven year old leaning out of the carriage window.
Also remember my grandad putting my mum and I on the train at Torquay with steam coming up between the carriages.
And so on to the Westerns......
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« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2008, 22:40:46 » |
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He he he what they gonna do, nuke the place and start again!
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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2009, 17:57:41 » |
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Just wandering, have any of the linespeeds been increased since the last engineering block? Trains seem to be able to manage Paignton - Newton Abbot easily in 15 minutes and I don't remember this being the case beforehand.
Hopefully somebody knows!
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2009, 00:16:16 » |
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Blimey, devon_metro - if you don't know, nobody else will!   |
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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 #11 on: April 20, 2009, 08:23:18 » |
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Borrow one of Devon & Cornwalls speedcamera vans, there are enough of them around  I'll try and find out... |
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« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2009, 10:03:04 » |
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No, speeds are the same.
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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2009, 17:58:12 » |
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Fair enough, thanks for that. Perhaps i'm just not used to the luxury of a seat so the time flys quicker when on the 150s/153s/143s that we seems to be getting now.
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