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« Reply #180 on: April 04, 2011, 23:14:10 » |
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Sounds fair enough to me, dischuffed - and welcome to the Coffee Shop forum!  CfN.  |
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"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #181 on: April 05, 2011, 18:37:38 » |
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The RingGo parking day also used to stop at midnight, this isn't a new feature.. No it was 24 hours (at Tiverton Parkway anyway). Perhaps they had a different policy for further up the line? |
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« Reply #182 on: April 05, 2011, 20:39:44 » |
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Weird that it differed in places.. RingGo at Maidenhead definitely expired at midnight same as Apcoa Connect does now.. |
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« Reply #183 on: April 05, 2011, 20:57:27 » |
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Hmm.  Car parking at Nailsea & Backwell station is free, 24 hours a day (except to those parking in disabled bays for which they do not qualify, obviously  ). At the next station down the line, Yatton, the APCOA▸ signs confirm that "All daily tickets expire at midnight":  |
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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 #184 on: April 07, 2011, 06:08:30 » |
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Used TVP yesterday at 0630 , phone 'message' said parking will expire on Thursday 7th at 0630. However, last Thursday I paid for two days parking which then expired at midnight on the Friday. Something not quite right here I think. I will check the board at TVP next time I go and see if it mentions daily tickets expiring at midnight. Has anyone parked by text and got a confirmation text back confirming exactly when your parking expires?  |
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« Reply #185 on: April 07, 2011, 19:45:33 » |
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Apcoa Connect wasn't working at 7.30am today.. I could phone them up.. And they could ask me if I wanted to enter 1 (for the same parking place/car as last time) or 2 for somewhere else.. And they could keep on asking me that.. But they weren't registering the 1 key I kept hitting.. Being an 0845 number I didn't want to try too many times.. I tried again at 8 from Paddington and it had started working again then.. I do wonder what would have happened to my car had I not managed to pay for parking that way and also what happened to the poor man I saw standing next to their sign on his phone when I left the car park (at that point I didn't realise there they were having a bit of trouble.. hopefully he gave up and tried again later but I imagine he probably missed his train as a result of it  ).. |
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« Reply #186 on: April 08, 2011, 13:26:13 » |
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Are there any "meet the manager" events in Bristol soon?
Still nothing announced. However it's good to know that there are MtMs on the 16th and 30th March - as still advertised on FGWs▸ website. |
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« Reply #187 on: April 09, 2011, 05:55:17 » |
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Checked tariff board at TVP, no mention of midnight expiry, so different staions, different rules.
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ChrisB
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« Reply #188 on: April 10, 2011, 17:16:42 » |
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Checked tariff board at TVP, no mention of midnight expiry, so different staions, different rules.
Yup, you're right...... At all ex FGW▸ stations, the tickets are valid for 24 hours from the time of purchase. At all ex Link and ex Wessex stations, the tickets expire at midnight on the day of purchase. Anyone who suffers a penalty for overstaying after midnight might like to draw it to the attention of the Customer Panel though. |
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« Reply #189 on: April 18, 2011, 14:31:20 » |
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Ok I've found it, meet the manager dates have been published.... I might have been the last to find out but here they are http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=2106Date Time Location 19 April 2011 1700 - 1900 Reading 3 May 2011 1700 - 1900 Plymouth 17 May 2011 1700 - 1900 Bristol Temple Meads 16 June 2011 1700 - 1900 Paddington 26 July 2011 1630 - 1900 Swindon 16 August 2011 1630 - 1830 Exeter St Davids 15 September 2011 1700 - 1900 Reading 26 October 2011 1700 - 1900 Plymouth 10 November 2011 1700 - 1900 Oxford 6 December 2011 1700 - 1900 Bristol Temple Meads 25 January 2012 1630 - 1900 Paddington 20 February 2012 1630 - 1830 Exeter S Davids |
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« Reply #190 on: April 18, 2011, 14:36:11 » |
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There's a sepatrate thread on these elsewhere on this board, where I have also mentioned that there are more to come once arranged.
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« Reply #191 on: April 30, 2011, 10:28:09 » |
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Has anyone heard about when the geographic number will be up and running? As stated on the 11th March it would be approximately 4 weeks.
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« Reply #192 on: April 30, 2011, 12:08:42 » |
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Has anyone heard about when the geographic number will be up and running? As stated on the 11th March it would be approximately 4 weeks.
I'd be very interested to know this as well. I'm avoiding travelling on business at the moment as I'm reluctant to in effect pay extra for parking which I'm unable to claim back from my employer (I can claim the cost of parking, but not the cost of calls - and yes I know cash or card is an option but it's often cheaper to pay by phone and my employer encourages me to do so) |
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« Reply #193 on: April 30, 2011, 12:46:14 » |
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I'll ask the question on Tuesday.....
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« Reply #194 on: May 07, 2011, 13:48:55 » |
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This thread moved on to a very interesting discussion about higher-than-headline charges being made (extra 10p, 20p, etc) for parking by phone - this subject has been split off and is ongoing at: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=8874Did we ever discover if the 0845 number has been replaced (joined) yet by a geographic one? We seem to a lot longer than "approx 4 weeks" from 11th March! |
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