Recent content by cointreau_rove

Have enjoyed all the series to date. The continental journeys were really just a taster as they were more like one of tose way down the numbers on sky that appear now and then (the one on the Rajistan train to the Taj Mahal was immense - saving for that little journey). Some of the WW1 stuff was...

Thanks to all posting - have enjoyed the cut and thrust on this one. Typical summer time travel on the railways. Up to this thread my inconvenience re luggage was the locking down of the trolley service on a Voyager going to Derby from Temple Meads (not a real problem, I had my seat and...

Quite so - I often see large numbers of very pleasant Japanese tourists arriving and departing and am amazed at the size of the bags they wheel around!. Very veryy polite and pleasant when I have engaged them in conversation on the train. I know what you mean about the stairs too - quite a...

Bath Spa has the "joy" for me of the out of sequence automated annoucements too We get "The train now approaching Platform 1 is....." with no train in sight. The the classic follow oon "The train now standing at Platform 1 is the......" only the train is still on approach. As unhelpful as...

Mine has been Bath Spa for the past 15 odd years and was the bane of my life till recently. It has had a really good revamp lately and for anyone who remembers the main London bound platform (Platform 2) with its mound car park - well not only has the car park gone but so has the windy round...

The FGW Androis smartphone app is very good and seems to be a rework of the XC app. It is now my first choice search app, even at home. Found some amazing ticket deals in there too! Not using the full websites anymore. C

That seems to have stopped working since I loaded the new NRE Android App which offers to let me go ad-free for just £4.99 Loved the original app but this new one is rubbish. It is clumsyand bloated with wanting to grab my GPS and other location data. Tried it and the only Bath Spa journeys I...

Absolutely agree Vauxhall has always been a busy interchange, more so since the new bus station area was put in - much easier to find and board buses, then the Victoria lin straignt through to Kings Cross/StPancras/Euston. For the Victoria bound, easier than the change at Clapham Junction...

Oh good it is free, brilliant, fantastic and all things wonderful - now maybe I will be able to get a seat in the other carriages as people pile into (Coach D I think) the entertainment centre foresaking the normal pile up at Paddington when the platform is announced..... Cynical - moi? Noooo...

As a regular user Bath to Salisbury can certainly agree with others that this service can be very overcrowded. The end of working day services form BTM towards Trowbridge can be packed with more wanting to get on at Bath and the reverse is true (particularly the early trains getting people to...

As a user of mainly FGW to London I enjoyed the HST sets till they were refurbished and the platic uncomfortable seats went in with less leg room etc. I was used to the discomfort due to the times I travelled with VXC and now Arria XC I travelled regularly Bristol to Nottingham and Manchester...

Have held back from commenting till now. As a long time passenger from Bath to almost everywhere but mainly to London for past 15 years IF I was asked even a few years ago whether First should retain the franchise I would have sacrificed my forst born (no pun intended) to ensure that NO was the...

Apologies I had forgootten to mention the loss of the morning commute ferries. Mainly because I tend to get there after the rush hour these days, they still run hourly form 10:10 though I tend to get there later. Its an interesting way to travel in the city when you get the chance...

The two main Bristol Stations are a good walk or bus ride to the centre. I would not ever think of using Bristol Parkway to go into the centre! But the walk from Temple Meads to Cabots Circus is one of crossing nd by passing heavily used roads and a coupl eof nightmare roundabouts and...

As a disabled person and someone with responsibilities in respect of accessibility management for quite a large portfolio of buildings and other properties the whole understanding of accessibility is one which is seriously misunderstood. Legal requirements on new build public and commercial...