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thanks, just couldn't see the route in my mind, not familar with routes south of Grantham

hi folks see that the midland pullman is running from york to paignton last pick up point is Huntingdon what route does it take from huntingdon

once again thanks for the heads up, we have been thinking about moving to south devon, but with the changes to Paignton area Mrs wants to have a feel for other area's did view in North west Devon but those single track roads as soon as you turn off main road did put us off,

i ehco your views regards Paignton & Goodrington, never been to weston super, so will be eye opener to us,

we love Goodrington Beach, in our eyes Paignton was ok, But with Lidl closed & the Steam train not stopping at intermedian stations (used to get on/off at goodrington cheap Priv ticket ) its lost a lot of its charm looks like its Weston Super on next trip

just update, we went to Paignton, looked a bit run down to me, but easy to get around as someone said earlier, looks like the rain tap been turned on all winter from Reading to Exeter the rivers and dikes look very high, fields that should be full of oilseed rape have a few odd bits and lots of...

thanks again for the tourist info, Grecjan what a write up, thanks indeed we are going to sit on beach (hiding the chips from the seagulls) a little paddle, walk up the shops to pick up food for the rtn trip Don't want to be walking miles so maybe we are staying going to Torbay stations for our...

Want a sandy beach, from memory Brighton is stones Looks like its Paignton tomorrow (familiar and I like familiar) whats it like at Poole ? again just a flying day trip (times look like 1130-1630)

Thanks for all the messages folks did think about Bournemouth for day out, think its going to be back to paignton this time, but will look going at Pompey and Poole in near future to use up last years passes

we do paignton & Torquay for flying visit, nice to see the sea and get back yesteryear holiday memeries 6:30 donny Paignton 1240, rtn 1616 donny around 9;50 whatelse to do when retired

sadly not the joy of first class for me

thanks, only been from southern region couple of times 40+ yrs ago so not sure of thier routes, if we go will be via waterloo then

hi folks thinking about a flying visit to weymouth this week, last time I went though Weymouth was for the ferry it was the week Elvis died that's how long ago, we got the night ferry at Waterloo we had a drink in the station bar and tommy Cooper was in there drinking the porter came in "Mr...

how do you use the paper tickets at the underground barriers ?, do you have to see member of staff aka getting though barriers at BR stations ?

but its down to the staff or their training in the ticket office if they help or not, I can only say what we have experianced