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    Ticket offices offering split tickets

    A problem with ticket office staff offering splits on journeys they know about is that it probably wouldn't be long before people start coming in demanding to know all the possible options for journeys to Quintrell Downs / Georgemas Junction / Acle / Rhosneigr and getting quite aggressive if the...
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    XC SW-NE double voyagers - why 9 or 10 coaches?

    XC still run a few double Voyagers on the SW - NE axis which seem to be spread out through the day. This is very useful if you're a leisure traveller like me - you can look at the formation on RTT (not guaranteed but pretty accurate) and plan your day accordingly. However I have noticed that it...
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    Revised relaunch of 'Project Rio' - could it work?

    I've always found Derby - Sheffield to be very scenic - hilly country, some fine stone architecture in the surrounding towns and villages, the Chesterfield crooked spire and the ornate northern portals to the tunnels (just the northern portals for some reason). Further south I concede there...
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    CODE BLACK- "DO NOT TRAVEL" GWR Sunday 18/02/2024

    Having travelled from Bristol to Exeter yesterday around 1400 and back today around the same time, the difference made by the overnight rain was very apparent. I travel regularly between the two and the amount of floodwater on the ground north of Exeter today was quite something - reminded me of...
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    Transition to solo driving in the UK

    I have a Video 125 'HST West' production from 1990 showing Paddington - Bristol - Exeter. There are two crew in the cab between Paddington and Bristol where the speed limit was 125mph, but only one between Bristol - Exeter where the maximum speed is 110mph (a short stretch between Highbridge and...
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    Online petition calls for Leap Year Day to move to June: could it work?

    Britain did actually skip 11 days in September 1752 - people went to bed on 2 September and woke up on 14 September. This was due to switching from Julian calendar from Gregorian calendar and having to play catch up with the rest of Europe. Be a bit difficult doing that now. While it sounds...
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    Why is rail travel in Cornwall so cheap ?

    Worth pointing out that the saving is only really on off-peak day returns - off peak monthly returns are almost twice as expensive. As has been said upthread, GWR significantly reduced a number of OP day returns when they took over the franchise around 2006-07. I think all day returns within...
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    Red Cow crossing (Exeter) – safety questions

    I'm not aware of any current passenger trains that don't stop at St Davids (although there have been services that did in the past - I remember around 2004 an XC service bizarrely omitted it yet stopped at Newton Abbot and Taunton) and there's not much freight. Any passenger trains heading north...
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    Remaining Effects of Covid

    Indeed - I was trying to make the point that even the type of stringent quarantine rules applied to scientists in Antarctica - people who are used to following the rules as breaches could have lethal consequences if you're based in the coldest place on earth - didn't consistently keep Covid out...
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    Pacer route list

    A very fair point - I completely forgot they worked regularly over the third rail around Liverpool. I'm still fairly certain they've never worked over regularly any of the third rail network in southern and south-eastern England, and I'm not sure they've been over any of it even out of service...
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    Remaining Effects of Covid

    A grand total of 15 days passed between Italy's national lockdown on Sunday 8 March and the UK announcement of the lockdown on Monday 23 March (although it didn't come into force until Thursday 26 March). Italy was the first country in Europe to attempt to emulate the perceived success of the...
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    Landslip at Crewkerne Tunnel - West of England Line closed.

    About a week of travelling by road will likely persuade them to return to the train if and when the service returns to normal. Heavitree Road - the most direct route into the city centre - moves at a snail's pace for large parts of the day, and Pinhoe Road and Topsham Road aren't much better. It...
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    No trains calling at Bath Spa today

    Yes sorry - I meant the second option.
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    No trains calling at Bath Spa today

    The options do seem to be: 1. Stop at Bath and have a complete free for all with large numbers of people unable to board throughout the day, many of whom do not take kindly to this and some of whom end up stranded at the end of the day; or 2. Don't stop there so the passengers you do have can...
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    Very Light Rail stock ordered for passenger trials

    The chances of Cannington Viaduct ever seeing a train are basically zero. The original line was a light railway precisely because of the condition of the viaduct, so was restricted to 25mph. You'd also have to rebuild bridges over the main line and the A358. Additionally you'd have the original...
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    Pacer route list

    The class 142s worked on Devon and Cornwall branches (so including Exmouth, Barnstaple and Paignton) from 1986-87. They were then sent up north and the first generation DMUs returned which they had replaced, until there were enough 15X to withdraw the first gen trains entirely, circa 1993-94 I...
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    Network Rail blasted over Dawlish sea wall death

    There are large parts of the South West Coast Path (and likely many other coast paths) where the going is somewhat hazardous and a fall could easily result in injury or death. I remember walking along a particularly high and narrow ledge south of Porthleven some years ago. Some of the descents...
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    Trivia - stationless towns with the nearest station in a different county

    Beaminster (Dorset) appears closer to Crewkerne (Somerset) than either Maiden Newton or Chetnole. Chard (Somerset) appears to be slightly closer to Axminster (Devon) than to Crewkerne. Stalbridge and Sturminster Newton seem to be closer to Templecombe (Somerset) than Gillingham (Dorset).
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    Peak service pattern on SWML at Weymouth electrification

    Hard to conceive of a train going to both Yeovil and Bournemouth now, although obviously the flexibility of 4TCs to do that finished with electrification to Weymouth. Slightly more exotic sounding than Salisbury and Eastleigh. The Yeovil portion would also have had to leave first, although the...
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    Remaining Effects of Covid

    Going out once a day for exercise once a day was guidance in England, but I believe it was law in Wales. Quite how it was to be policed is another matter. One hour a day however was nowhere near to being guidance - IIRC it was Michael Gove's answer to an on the spot question. That doesn't...

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