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« Reply #30 on: January 21, 2012, 18:27:49 » |
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Ley is just a gated crossing box about a mile west of Gloucester towards Lydney. Those one word names cover anything from signalling centres with a wide area of coverage to signalling backwaters...
No idea about the details of Swindon I'm afraid, but I guess if it's some sort of 'modern' electronic panel it may well just be a recontrol.
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« Reply #31 on: January 21, 2012, 21:23:41 » |
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It took on Slough IECC▸ over Xmas...............You haven't noticed then?.......  Haven't travelled since takeover am travelling 7 Feb so will report. |
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« Reply #32 on: January 22, 2013, 22:44:15 » |
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Looks like physical work has started on Pangbourne's extension. Either that, or they're stripping down a load of trees in the area for a different reason...
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« Reply #33 on: March 13, 2013, 14:03:52 » |
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Quick work. The car park extension appeared to be opened for the first time late this morning - I'll be interested to see how quickly it fills up. Partly asphalt with the bays themselves finished with stone chippings - and it does indeed look as if there's about 35 extra spaces as promised.
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« Reply #34 on: March 13, 2013, 15:52:13 » |
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I hope the theoretical bay positions get marked somehow - there's a car park at Long Buckby station up in Northants, (that I used to use now and again), where there were no bay markings at all away from the asphalted main access routes - so the early arrivals seemed to park on the basis of about three cars to four (notional) spaces. I suppose on the plus side there's little risk of doors being opening against other cars, but the car park ended up being unusable beyond about 75% of its true capacity...
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« Reply #35 on: March 13, 2013, 23:00:18 » |
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The bays are marked on the actual asphalt, i.e. a short line of a couple of feet in length to mark out each space - perhaps not the clearest thing in the world, but you'd need to be very inconsiderate to ignore them. Sadly there are no shortage of inconsiderate drivers.
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« Reply #36 on: March 14, 2013, 17:09:30 » |
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When Hanborough had its last car park extension 5 or 6 years ago, comments were made that the spaces marked out were too narrow. As most of this extra parking is now used by the many Hanborough/London commuters who get there first thing in the morning and most seem to run Merc, Audis, and Chelsea tractors that are wider than the average car, 3 of these narrow spaces are often needed to take take 2 cars. The problem is made worse because to get out, the driver has to reverse almost dead straight to avoid touching an adjoining car but there is very limited space to reverse before you might hit the railings.
I have commented to FGW▸ about this inadequate spacing and been told that the spacing keeps to national standards. I have however found out since that the quoted width dimensions are probably recommended minimum widths, not actually desirable practical widths. If the widths were just that bit more to allow wide vehicles to park, there might possibly be less wasted space. Mind you at the older end of the car park, spaces are marked so that vehicles park along side the back of the platform and these spaces are mostly rather too long, Some of the drivers of the increasing numbers of little Smart cars around, probably acquired as a second car to a Merc, can often park the Smart car nose towards the fence, between to lenthwise cars parked cars, without using a marked space. We just hope that when the new large 191 space car park has been built at Hanborough, the spacing will be a little less tight however I understand that there will only be tarmac access roads and that the actually spaces will be rolled gravel so probably the space markings will be little different to those quoted at car parks in other postings above. Incidentally construction actually started last weekend when the demolition contractors moved in to clear the empty on site buildings after the aasbestos removal specialists had been on site for several weeks. This start is just about 5 months after the original start date for last September with a completion date of last Christmas! If they make the same rate of progress on HS▸ " it might get finished for 2050!
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« Reply #37 on: January 31, 2014, 19:02:38 » |
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Quick work. The car park extension appeared to be opened for the first time late this morning - I'll be interested to see how quickly it fills up. Partly asphalt with the bays themselves finished with stone chippings - and it does indeed look as if there's about 35 extra spaces as promised.
The extension has been steadily filling up over the past few months and I've noted that on many Tuesdays-Thursdays it is now very nearly full. To almost quote Field Of Dreams (and the far superior Wayne's World 2), "If you build it, they will come." An extension to the extension will be needed soon!  |
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« Reply #38 on: December 09, 2019, 18:34:41 » |
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Like I said in the title: Pangbourne Parish Council websiteI vaguely recall that when the new bridge was built the old one was left in place because some sort of pipes ran underneath it. A couple of years ago I'd just driven over the bridge towards Pangbourne when I met a very large lorry on my side of the road inching backwards towards the village. I surmised that the driver had belatedly realised there was a weight restriction on the bridge. Dunno where he thought he was going to turn around - I suppose he could have gone down into Beale Wildlife Park had he been aware of the layout there. And Pangbourne Station car park would have been an option. A mile down the road, a police car was coming the other way, perhaps to help the driver. Locals will know that on at least two occasions recently lorries have damaged buildings when trying to turn up the steep hill in Streatley. My casual Googling led to a lorry drivers' forum where members spoke of the problems of delivering heavy equipment and components to the correct side of the Thames for the electrification programme. Marlburian |
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« Reply #39 on: December 10, 2019, 00:11:58 » |
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There is a tragic story about this bridge.
In the early 1970s, the first pupil from Theale Grammar School to secure a place at Oxford or Cambridge (the school opened in 1963) was killed in a road accident on the bridge before he went up to university to take his place.
If I recall correctly, this was before traffic lights were installed on the bridge
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« Reply #40 on: December 10, 2019, 07:37:13 » |
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They really could do with two bridges here - one for each direction and remove the lights altogether.
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« Reply #41 on: December 10, 2019, 15:39:48 » |
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The diversion around the bridge removal is a bit torturous, though not so onerous as when the steep hill out of Streatley was closed (twice) to repair the houses damaged by errant lorries.
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« Reply #42 on: December 10, 2019, 15:40:53 » |
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Sorry - another double post. Dunno if it's me, but sometimes nothing seems to happen when I press "post". And sometimes I get the message "Sorry, SMF▸ was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later". And "alt+s" brings up "Show all history"  Bear with me, please, I'll get used to things! If a mod wants to have a quiet word with me ... Marlburian |
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« Reply #43 on: December 10, 2019, 17:56:09 » |
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Sorry - another double post. Dunno if it's me, but sometimes nothing seems to happen when I press "post". And sometimes I get the message "Sorry, SMF▸ was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later". And "alt+s" brings up "Show all history" Bear with me, please, I'll get used to things! If a mod wants to have a quiet word with me ... Marlburian There is an issue on our server in the last 48 hours or so - which I am currently researching. With an intermittent problem as this one is, I have no easy setup where I can make a change and see if it works. |
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« Reply #44 on: May 19, 2022, 18:47:28 » |
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Just seen on the BBC» local news - an artist has just repainted the underpass at Pangbourne to resemble the interior of a bee hive - and very bright and cheerful it looks too!
Presumably it will be replayed in the local news slot after the 10 o'clock news this evening
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