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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: A difficult (ish) 'Where Was I Today?'
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on: October 03, 2012, 20:19:03
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Hmm. Well, the car was registered in Exeter, between 1 March and 31 August 2011, so it's perhaps likely to be in that area.  Although most dealers in somerset seem to use Exeter DVLA▸ office rather than Bristol, and many in Cornwall also use Exeter rather than Truro. My van was registered for me by a dealer in West Cornwall and has a WG reg, (it has my own private plate on now though) and my brothers Corsa registered a week later by a dealer in Somerset also had a WG registration. |
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / Heritage railway lines, Railtours, other rail based attractions / Re: London Transport Museum
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on: September 22, 2012, 22:25:13
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We stayed on the Siblu site near Bayeaux and in the 7 nights/ 8 days we were there we didnt stop, there was so much to visit that interested us. We didnt get anywhere near Caen or the Cotentin Peninsular, I was amazed at how much there was to do in the area.
I was very lucky to have booked to use LD lines through pompey - Le Havre due to a ^400 saving being more appealing than the negative of having to drive more miles. Would have usually used a brittany ferries routes. After brittany ferries went on strike this week I would have been rather stuck with a drive up to Calais.
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / Heritage railway lines, Railtours, other rail based attractions / Re: London Transport Museum
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on: September 22, 2012, 20:04:48
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I visited last september, and I must admit i enjoyed it, but I wouldnt return and pay ^13.50 again. Its something I was happy to pay the admittance once, but that was it.
Incidentally I have just returned today from a week in Normandy, France, where I have visited a collection of ww2 museums, and 6 euros was the most expensive museum we visited. They also sold a "normandy card" for 1 euro at each of these museums and once you had one of these cards you received 1 euro off the admittance at almost all other museums in the region. Doesnt sound a lot, but if like me you are visiting a lot of museums on your trip worked out to save a lot of money over the week. The card was valid for 12 months as well.
I would highly recommend visiting the Normandy WW2 museums to anyone at some time within their lives as it is truly amazing what our forces went through.
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Passenger usage in different south-west towns
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on: September 06, 2012, 18:05:15
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Melksham.
Melksham is Perhaps compareable to falmouth population wise, I've only managed to find 2001 census details, when melksham had 21000, and Falmouth 21635. Just look at the difference in services and passenger numbers though! Indeed - what a difference. The 23k figure that I used for Melksham earlier on is somewhat on the low side - around 2000 new homes have been built since 2001, but then the average occupancy of a house has dropped a little, so the sums are complex (and as ever you have difficulty defining where any town ends). Currently Melksham 23 4 11 Falmouth 22 58 233 Should change to Melksham 24 18 120 in three years time (that's allowing for a new service to bed in and build). You'll note that I'm not predicting the same ridership levels per head of population as Falmouth, though interestingly I *am* talking more people per train. Presumably that 58 figure includes 3 stops / calls per half hour during the day - 2 from town and 1 from Docks? Falmouth has 5 calls per hour if you include Penmere as well which is closest station to the town centre.Bear in mind the university and all the students wasnt built in 2001 so this will boost the Falmouth Population by a few thousand, although probably wont show in the census. |
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All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: No fare available for a train service
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on: September 05, 2012, 20:42:57
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On a Truro to Falmouth Docks train the
Origin Station is Truro.
Destination Station is Falmouth Docks.
The Return working is a different train service with IIRC▸ a different Headcode.
That is correct. Should in theory be a permitted route to go from Truro to perranwell on a non stopper via Falmouth, based on "A through train is one which runs between the origin and destination stations and on which passengers can make their journey without having to change trains". Thats assuming the return from Falmouth to Truro stops at Perranwell. As stopping short is permitted on some tickets, in theory bailing off at Falmouth would be stopping short as it is prior to the train arriving in Perranwell on the through train example above.
When it says 'A through train' it means ONE train service, Truro to Falmouth Docks is one train service, Falmouth Docks to Truro is another, therefore when the train arrives at Falmouth Dock it is classed as a change of trains, even though in reality it is the same train. Howver BNM from which i got my theory from suggests otherwise in his above post |
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All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: No fare available for a train service
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on: September 05, 2012, 17:51:01
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Hell, you'd be sold a return to Keyham and made to get off there to catch the service coming back again!! Its like all these students who get on at Truro with a single to Perranwell on a train that doesnt stop there then state they'll stay on until Falmouth and get off at Perranwell on the way back. Funnily enough they go missing at Falmouth having paid to Perranwell to get past the gateline and the most execellant gateline staff. I love Truro gateline staff they are fab.
As the service is a through train it is perfectly allowed to double back, also it is allowed to double back between 'group' stations which Keyham, Dockyard, Devonport and Plymouth are all part of the Plymouth group for fares purposes. You'd struggle to exit at Plymouth anyway, with a gateline! How is it the gateline staffs fault? They have a valid ticket from that station, so surely the gateline staff would not be involve at all, because the gate would open automatically! If a conductor is checking tickets and allowing a student to do that rather than telling them to get off at Penryn, they are just as much at fault as the gateline staff! Should in theory be a permitted route to go from Truro to perranwell on a non stopper via Falmouth, based on "A through train is one which runs between the origin and destination stations and on which passengers can make their journey without having to change trains". Thats assuming the return from Falmouth to Truro stops at Perranwell. As stopping short is permitted on some tickets, in theory bailing off at Falmouth would be stopping short as it is prior to the train arriving in Perranwell on the through train example above. |
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