Agree, that 1 + 0 seating just won't catch on !

 

Was previously terminating short at Swindon.

 

 
From Junction Railwayana in a Facebook Post

 
Advert from GWR than came up sponsored on Facebook:



Interesting choice to highlight the one way fare on what (at first glance) looks like a natural outing for which day or period return prices might be what most people will end up paying.

Went back to Facebook to give a direct link - but my feed has moved on!

 

Gosh I can see the similarity: 


but, no, it isn't.

 
8, the A354 bridge over the onward route from Weymouth to the Isle of Portland?

Mark

 
Thursday October 30

Presumably this is indicative of engine failures:
RTT reports it as being a 9-car set, 800 321.

 
On the planned timetable changes which I suspect are the side-effects of the Bath to Bristol closure ...

The 06:06 from Swindon is running to Weymouth rather than to Southampton Central today (this week?). As from the December timetable change, this journey works as a connection at Westbury. Unofficially, it usually does already and is made use of by multiple people on a daily basis.

The 20:06 Westbury to Swindon (and on up the South Cotswold line) is not running - not reported here as a late change, and its disappearance won't make the line stats.  And with today's cancellation of the through train from Portsmouth north of Swindon - which has been reasonably substitute for the 21:31 from Westbury, leaves the last running departure from Westbury for Swindon as early as 18:53!

The 22:31 Swindon to Westbury train (due 23:12) is replaced by a bus from Chippenham at 22:46.  A connecting train runs from Swindon at 22:06 (toward Bath) - 25 minutes earlier than the normal last train, and the bus gets to Westbury at 23:39 - 27 minutes later than the train would.  Not even on the line that's being worked on ;-) ... illustrates the difference between a train service (41 minutes) and a rail / bus alternative (93 minutes).

 

 
another local bus meeting taking place.

 https://www.portishead.gov.uk/residents-bus-meeting

 
https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/travel-information/disruption/industrial-action

 

It isn't ... and in fact that's not a line I know at all.   Salisbury to Wimborne wasn't it?  

There are some old trackbeds - the ones at Seend, on the Devizes flight and at Hamble and Newquay which it would be crazy to get re-instated as part of the national passenger network, and it's really hard to see the line north west of Cortyon coming back - passenger flows covered on the line it was closely parallel to.  Similarly, Oxford does need more capacity but not over a swing bridge and the capacity to terminate from the north has been added.

Many - even most - of the others need a rethink and a new context, but I could see a scenario in which ... some far more distant than others.  

 

Yes - it is canal related ... canals and railways both follow(ed) valley bottoms and then rise through the same passes from one watershed to the next.

 
17.  That's another canal-related one, I think - but I'm rather wary about that now.

 
7.  I'll take a bit of a long shot, and venture to suggest that it's Whaddon Bridge at Alderbury, Wiltshire.  The railway would have been the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway.

Again, with my limited knowledge of the area, I wouldn't like to say whether it should still be open - but I suspect not.

 
Here we go .... just four left unidentified which for a set of earthworks and bridges is remarkably good going

1. Hayling Island branch
CyclingSid, and with a fascinating insight
confirmed by eightonedee

2. Foxhangers on the Devizes line
Chris from Nailsea

3. Weymouth to Portland Line at Wyke Regis
eightonedee

4. Yarmouth IOW
Ray951

5. Yatton on the Strawberry Line
ChrisfN

6. Cortyon
MarkA - with an interesting example of a line buit and not used (my understanding is that it was used by a single train)

10. Hamble
Ray951
Interestimg further data from CyclingSid

11. Seend Cleeve, tramway to Seend Iron Works
bradshaw

12. Tramway - Caen Hill, Devizes
bradshaw - also noting tramway
Identified as Prison Bridge by Chris from Nailsea

13. Mangotsfield
chuffed

14. Near Midford, Somerset and Dorset
johnneyw, and yes it could make a useful part of the network

15. Ventnor
PhilWakely

16. Oxford - LNWR Station
ChrisB

18. Newquay
TonyN

19. Yeovil Town
brooklea and bradshaw - plenty of data

20. Midland and South West Juntion towards Ludgershall
Kennet and Avon,

7.


8.


9.


17.

 

 
That's quite a misleading headline from The Telegraph.

 
Here's Harry and his dad in happier times, appearing on BBC's Children In Need in 2019.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07v4c2q

 

With apologies for my obvious failures to identify those particular railway lines, as well as the location of the pictures:

2. The railway line was the one from Devizes to Trowbridge. I have very limited local knowledge, so I should not comment on whether it should be open / re-opened.

20.  The railway line there was the one from Andover, via Ludgershall, to Marlborough.

Just as an aside: 5. The Strawberry Line, was never particularly financially viable - it does do very well as a pedestrian / cycle path, these days.

 

This seems to be an issue again today.  I thought that IETs had sufficient redundancy to be able to keep to time with engines out - is this correct?

 

Not you ... heavy loading.  Ongoing experiments looking into the load spikes. In the meantime, I repeat my suggestion that LONG posts are copied before you press "post" or "preview" just in case

 
Thank you for posting that item, matthij.


That's an understandably difficult one: there is no obvious answer, as we are (and I personally would prefer it to be continued in this way), limited in the sheer number of different boards on this Coffee Shop forum (purely in the interests of clarity, as I so often post).

I will therefore merely move this topic to our existing 'The Wider Picture Overseas' board.

CfN.

 
Thank you for posting that update here, JayMac.

CfN. 

 

Yes - although the time I tried to catch it - from the Saturday Melksham to Weymouth train - it was timetabled to leave Pen Mill two minutes before the train arrived and presumably did so, as saying across from the train in the hope ... it was gone.   No obvious answer here; the resultant road walk out to Yeovil Junction with the bus gone did not feel very safe.

 
I think I must have done something it didn't like:

 
Todays Wolverton-Laira cancelled. Might have a knock-on effect and cancel the Ely-Wolverton move tomorrow.


Ely-Wolverton is running Thursday.

 
The 68 bus runs hourly between the two stations from around 7am to 7 pm and goes via the bus station. Far more convenient than a long walk, especially in the rain

 
Harry's father Trevor has posted on Facebook a reply to comments on a Local World (Somerset Live) news item about the I
incident. Many people in the comments were making assumptions about mental health.



An inquest has opened and been adjourned to a later date.