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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Weather disruption caused in 2014, and how to prevent it happening again - ongoing discussion
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on: February 09, 2014, 19:38:37
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Returning to the Exeter to Paddington services..... I notice the 'can they/can't they run services over the SR‡ line' question appears to have been resolved and that FGW▸ services will now run again all the way from Exeter to Paddington, but still over the SR route despite Whiteball being available again, using the same timetable as per the last three weeks.
quote from SWT▸ website....
Monday 10 February
First Great Western services are currently diverted via our route between Yeovil Junction and Exeter St Davids. We have been advised that this will continue on Monday 10 February 2014.
To allow this to occur we will be operating an amended timetable......
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Weather disruption caused in 2014, and how to prevent it happening again - ongoing discussion
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on: February 06, 2014, 14:13:47
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With National (Quantitative Easing ?!) and EU» funding (after all Cornwall has Objective One status) to re-instate Meldon to Tavistock/Bere Alston with a Parkway station at Sourton to serve West Devon, North West Devon and mainly North Cornwall ..and as someone has already suggested by extension of SWT▸ Exeter/Waterloo service which is increasingly needing some fast limited stop trains - perhaps just Honiton, Axminster, Sherborne, Salisbury, & Basingstoke.
Perhaps in time Overhead Electrification ..no problems with sea, salt,sand & eyesore O/H coastal wires or limited clearance Marley Tunnels.
I agree entirely, but historically the South West has been treated almost with disdain by successive governments. You'd almost believe that nothing exists west of a line drawn between Southampton and Bristol! Each time proposals to improve the A303 road have been put forward, they have effectively been brushed under the carpet; the rail electrification proposals clearly ignore the South West; the Economic Assessment produced for HS2▸ clearly showed parts of the South West having a negative outlook; and proposals for doubling even short stretches of the SR‡ route are given the cold shoulder. I fear that it'll be nothing more than 'a few million' for political expediency to be seen to be doing something. but nowhere near enough to do anything other than repair the damage. |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Weather disruption caused in 2014, and how to prevent it happening again - ongoing discussion
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on: February 05, 2014, 14:27:57
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Been predicted for a few years now. How easy would it be to dust off the old inland route from Exeter to Newton Abbot, though I'm not sure if that would be susceptible to high speed running? Going via Okehampton would require two train reversals for Penzance - Paddington. But both of these would make electrification easier.
How about diverting some of the HS2▸ cash to preserve an existing line to an important part of the countryside?
Far easier to reinstate the Okehampton to Bere Alston link and make it usable at reasonably high speeds. The old Teign Valley route has been virtually obliterated and was only single track suitable for 14xx with Auto coaches. |
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Journey by Journey / London to the West / Re: Whiteball Tunnel blockade - January / February 2014
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on: February 04, 2014, 16:08:52
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Interestingly, although Beechings infamous Reshaping report didn't formally propose closure of the Southern route, it did specifically mark it out as an example of a "duplicating" line that could be surplus to requirements in the future.
What with Whiteball and Dawlish at the moment, I can almost hear the computerised station announcer at Plymouth saying "the train now standing at platform 3 is the 10:30 to London Waterloo, calling at Tavistock, Okehampton, Exeter Central, Yeovil Junction, Salisbury and London Waterloo"..... if only! |
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Journey by Journey / London to the West / Re: Whiteball Tunnel blockade - January / February 2014
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on: January 13, 2014, 21:46:57
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Many thanks for that link. Most useful. Last time the diversion was used extensively (every weekend during Feb/Mar 2012 I think), all trains were officially booked to stop at Honiton, Axminster and Yeovil Junction. I notice that is not the case this time, but the working timetable identified above shows a 15 minute stop at Honiton, which can only be at the platform, so why is it not properly advertised as a stop?
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