Yeoford Second platform project boosted by ^250k grant

Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 21:15 19 Apr 2025

- Race Across the World winner on 'authentic travel' and how to do it

Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]

[whole diary]

10/05/25 - BRTA Westbury
10/05/25 - Model Railsay Show, Calne
13/05/25 - Melksham TUG / AGM
14/05/25 - West Wiltshire RUG

On this day
19th Apr (1938)

Foundation, Beatties of London (link)

• • • • • • Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street

April 19, 2025, 21:28:34

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Most recently liked subjects
[108] FOSS and FOSW validity - some quirks
[106] St Erth station - facilities, footbridge, improvements, incide...
[81] Fifteen years of the Transwilts CRP
[71] Wiltshire Day Rover - new multi-operator bus ticket
[56] RNLI station celebrates 10 years of saving lives - Portishead,...
[53] Julia Bradbury: ITV tonight

News: the Great Western Coffee Shop ... keeping you up to date with travel around the South West

Home

Help

Calendar

Great Western Coffee Shop > Journey by Journey > Shorter journeys in Devon - Central, North and South > Yeoford Second platform project boosted by ^250k grant

Pages: 1 2 [3]

« previous next »

Author

Topic: Yeoford Second platform project boosted by ^250k grant (Read 14246 times)

The SprinterMeister

Hero Member

Posts: 665

Trundling round the SW

Re: Yeoford Second platform project boosted by ^250k grant

« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2010, 11:58:48 »

Quote from: signalandtelegraph on February 11, 2010, 18:38:11

It's the Fixed Telecom Network (FTN) Radio, by its very nature, wouldn't need a cable. Wink

As to putting the trough route on the platform, more profit for the installation contractor if you don't 'dig it in' properly.

I can only really go on what the various line managers who ride up and down in the cabs tell me. I assume all these fancy new GSM-R^▸ towers are linked into the internal phone system and to one another by use of the aforementioned cable?
Grin


	Logged

Trundling gently round the SW

Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

Pages: 1 2 [3]

« previous next »

Jump to:

This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules via admin@railcustomer.info. Full legal statement (here).

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page