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John R
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« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2009, 18:40:30 » |
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Thank you! At least I didn't post when the question and answer was already elsewhere!
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2011, 23:36:52 » |
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From the FGW▸ press release: Pangbourne railway station is to get 35 extra car park spaces, owing to a cash injection of more than ^180,000, after First Great Western successfully secured funding from an industry improvement scheme.
The improvement will make it significantly easier to park and will cater for growing passenger demand. The funding follows a bid by First Great Western to the Station Commercial Project Facility, a ^100m Department for Transport scheme administered by Network Rail and the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC» ).
Managing Director for First Great Western Mark Hopwood said: ^This announcement is great news for our customers especially coming so soon after last week^s announcement of additional carriages for London Thames Valley services.
^The car park expansion will make a big difference for Pangbourne residents and businesses, and we are delighted to have secured the finance needed for this very important project.^
Detailed planning and design work is currently being carried out before work begins on site.
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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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A relatively easy extension using land currently used for access to the track for maintenance gangs. Good news as Pangbourne is usually very full come the end of the rush hour. Nice to see FGW▸ crowing about it in a press statement too. I may be wrong, but I don't remember a similar press release when similar good news was announced regarding Stroud, Charlbury, Pershore and Radley a few months ago?
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To view my GWML▸ Electrification cab video 'before and after' video comparison, as well as other videos of the new layout at Reading and 'before and after' comparisons of the Cotswold Line Redoubling scheme, see: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/IndustryInsider/ |
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« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2011, 01:14:24 » |
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Possibly because Pangbourne is Mark Hopwood's station?
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« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2011, 01:20:07 » |
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Possibly because Pangbourne is Mark Hopwood's station?
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« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2011, 01:32:08 » |
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« Reply #23 on: December 04, 2011, 12:08:26 » |
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Yesterday evening (Saturday 3rd December) we travelled on the 2053 Reading to Pangbourne - or so we thought. After leaving Reading on time with the normal station and train announcements we came to a long stand at Reading West junction. (Regular travellers on this line will know this is not unusual as this is where local trains are held to save Freightliners the inconvenience of red signals in the Reading area - but that's another story).
Anyway, after a few trains had whizzed past on the other 3 lines our Driver came on and said that because of engineering work we would be crossing over to the main line when some fast trains had gone through. Also she apologised and said that the train would not now be calling at Pangbourne, but road transport would be available at Tilehurst.
About a dozen Pangbourne passengers duly alighted at Tilehurst on the DM. No sign of road transort. So I pressed the Help button and asked where the road transport was. The nice man said there wasn't any as trains were running normally, and offered the helpful information that in fact the 2053 ex Reading had just left Pangbourne 3L. I said it may well have done, but that it had probably passed through at about 70 mph as there are no platforms at Pangbourne on the DM. So we needed road transport. Whereupon he asked me to wait before I was cut off.
I tried again and had a very similar conversation with a nice lady before I was again cut off.
Then we all noticed on the information screen that next down stopper, the 2123 ex Reading, was showing as arriving on P3 (ie DR). Good news for Pangbourne people. Peering down the line we could see that it was indeed coming in on P3. We all trooped over the footbridge and got our train. I spoke briefly to the Driver, who said he had been told at Reading that he was going DM and wouldn't be calling at Pangbourne, and had made announcements accordingly. But now he was on the DR he would do. After leaving Tilehurst he came on and apologised for the earlier incorrect info and said he would be calling at Pangbourne.
I do hope that the Driver will not be in trouble for stopping at Pangbourne after he had been told he wouldn't be.
So what happened? Did the signalman close the DR in error 2 hours ahead of the booked and advertised closure?
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« Reply #24 on: December 04, 2011, 22:16:19 » |
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So what happened? Did the signalman close the DR in error 2 hours ahead of the booked and advertised closure?
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« Reply #25 on: December 05, 2011, 14:32:53 » |
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Looks like Thames Valley signalling centre is taking on the habits of the old Reading panel.
Doesn't bode well it when it takes on Slough IECC▸ and Slough panel. Be ablr to muck up everywhere from Padd to Swindon.
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« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2012, 22:46:26 » |
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Looks like Thames Valley signalling centre is taking on the habits of the old Reading panel.
Doesn't bode well it when it takes on Slough IECC▸ and Slough panel. Be ablr to muck up everywhere from Padd to Swindon.
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« Reply #27 on: January 21, 2012, 14:13:23 » |
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I recall seeing a list of dates for transfer of signalling to the Thames Valley Signalling Centre, but cannot remember where. Can anyone help?
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« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2012, 16:26:05 » |
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I copied this a while back. Not sure why it splits GW▸ into two sections - perhaps there was an idea that there'd be two ROCs▸ at one stage?
Thames Valley
2011 - Slough IECC▸
2012 - Swindon 'B'
2013 - Slough Panel, Colthrop, Kintbury
2014 - Swindon 'A'
2016 - Oxford
2018 - Greenford
2024 onwards - Westbury
Great Western
2012 - Ley
2015 - Bristol PSB▸
2019 to 2024 - Gloucester, Liskeard to Penzance and branches, Plymouth PSB
2024 onwards - Cotswolds, Exeter, Crediton, Paignton, Exmouth Jcn, St Andrews Jcn, Worcester area, Malvern lines
I've included Wessex (new build ROC at Basingstoke) because there's a slight overlap, eg Yeovil Pen Mill.
2012 - Exeter to Salisbury
2013 - Aldershot to Farnham, Poole to Dorchester
2014 - Yeovil Pen Mill
2016 - Eastleigh (Panel 1), Farncombe, Guildford, Salisbury
2017 - Basingstoke, Eastleigh (Panel 2 & 3), Woking, Feltham (Panel 3 & 4)
2018 - Wimbledon (Panel 4 & 5), Feltham (Panel 1 & 2)
2019 to 2024 - Brockenhurst, Clapham Yard, Wimbledon (Panel 1, 2 & 3)
2024 onwards - Bournemouth, Haslemere, Petersfield, Havant, Marchwood, Wokingham, School Road (Fawley)
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« Reply #29 on: January 21, 2012, 18:12:10 » |
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Thanks,
Where's Ley?
Do you know when are they going to transfer Swindon B - presumably this is just recontrol so will it need a blockade?
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