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« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2010, 08:50:02 »
"On the advice the of British Transport Police"  Roll Eyes

Shouldn't there also be a comma or some other punctuation after the word Police in that sentence?
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« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2010, 16:55:16 »


What I want to know is how do you remove valuables from your car after you've locked it?  Smash a window?
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« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2010, 17:03:29 »
Quote from: thetrout on May 23, 2010, 08:46:11
It is indeed Chippenham... Grin

But there is a crucial error in the poster... As a hint, it would certainly not get you that A grade at GCSE Wink

Apart from the typos, interesting route there... although last time I looked Temple Meads is still just down the road from me, they don't seem to have moved it to somewhere past Camarthen...
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« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2010, 20:50:27 »
Some services to and from Bristol TM‡(resolve) were included, as they were extended to or started from Cardiff.  I suspect it is a statutory requirement to put posters up at every station where there are trains calling affected by the ban, so perfectly reasonable why there were posters at Chippenham.   
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« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2010, 21:06:30 »
Any ideas why on Friday 14 May when I was at Cardiff Central the departure boards were advising that all services on te Bargoed/Rhymney branch that day were dry...?
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« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2010, 21:17:57 »
It was the first day for many years that it hasn't rained in Wales?




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« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2010, 22:06:38 »
Quote from: devon_metro on May 23, 2010, 21:17:57
It was the first day for many years that it hasn't rained in Wales?




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Surely if such is the case, you would not need your coat? :p
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« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2010, 23:05:42 »
Quote from: inspector_blakey on May 23, 2010, 21:06:30
Any ideas why on Friday 14 May when I was at Cardiff Central the departure boards were advising that all services on te Bargoed/Rhymney branch that day were dry...?

The upper valleys (above Bargoed/Pontypridd I think) are always shown as dry... as far as I know it's a byelaw to reduce anti-social behaviour.
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« Reply #23 on: May 24, 2010, 03:09:01 »
does that not say more about the welsh valley inhabitants than the train service
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« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2010, 09:55:22 »
Quote from: Hafren on May 23, 2010, 23:05:42
Quote from: inspector_blakey on May 23, 2010, 21:06:30
Any ideas why on Friday 14 May when I was at Cardiff Central the departure boards were advising that all services on te Bargoed/Rhymney branch that day were dry...?

The upper valleys (above Bargoed/Pontypridd I think) are always shown as dry... as far as I know it's a byelaw to reduce anti-social behaviour.

correct.  Even at 8am they are announced as dry at Cardiff Central.  Does rather advertise the fact that the areas ahve their problems
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« Reply #25 on: May 25, 2010, 10:12:14 »
Quote from: Tim on May 25, 2010, 09:55:22
Even at 8am they are announced as dry at Cardiff Central.  Does rather advertise the fact that the areas ahve their problems

Are we sure "dry" isn't Welsh for "late" or "delayed" or something?!
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