The V of R for those who don't know where those locos operated.

V of R is of course the narrow gauge Vale of Rheidol line from Aberystwyth to Devils Bridge.

Well they couldn't be any worse than the NHS mattress that I endured 25 years ago.

Oh dear !!!! JourneyCheck doesn't say which depot but I presume this to be SPM^▸ (St Philip's Marsh (Bristol depot)) so are we in for a day of disruption of west services today.   

06:43 Bristol Temple Meads to Penzance due 11:27
06:43 Bristol Temple Meads to Penzance due 11:27 will be started from Plymouth.
It will no longer call at Bristol Temple Meads, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Tiverton Parkway, Exeter St Davids, Exeter St Thomas, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Newton Abbot, Totnes and Ivybridge.
This is due to a derailment within the depot.

What about the "Bristol Freedom Travelpass" ticket available for travel on most buses and trains within an area bounded in the west by Weston-S-M, in the east by Freshford and the north by both Pilning and Yate. The ticket is available in a combination of zones and for periods of 1 day, 7 days or a calendar month. My only gripe with this ticket is the map shows Cribbs Causeway to be north of Pilning in Zone C when the blob for Cribbs should be next to Patchway in Zone A.

Off up relief into HEX Depot @ 12:00.

Still there @ 11:42 with 5G29 - 2P31 - 2Y22 - 2P32 - 9P23 all lined up behind it on the relief line with approaching trains being switched to up main line at Southall West.

On up relief at Ealing Broadway @ 11:12

A time for a temporary "pop-up" bar at the gateline(s).

Would you rather key in 1000 e-mail addresses, identify a few attachments to each address and press the send key, it would be cheaper no envelopes to pay for and stamps to purchase.

Where did this data come from, I live in an area which is widely regarded as a dormitory town for Bristol and in the morning and evening peaks we have had "express" bus services to Bristol and from 03 September these are being extended to run all day until early evening with longer duration journeys running until a last bus from Bristol at 23.35 daily. Distance about 12 miles. I could also make a similar repeat statement regarding the town of Thornbury. We also have a, reopened in 1989, rail station from which we have been promised a half hourly rail service in the future, hourly now, how far in the future is in the "lap of the gods" knowing how long it takes the rail organisations to do what is normally viewed as a simple task.

JourneyCheck informing that platform 9 at PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains) is closed some services being terminated at Reading, mainly Bedwyn services when I checked.

Condemn me if you wish but I did not take part in the consultation because my days of long distance rail travel looks to be a relic of the past, Glasgow is where I fledge my wings to and when I can get one way fares on Easyjet from / to Bristol for as little as £22.66 to and £24.68 from Scotlands second city then regards competing modes of transport there is "no contest".

Was it, or did the Network Rail signaller suggest it ? Who ever it was, good thinking.

Has someone in GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) HQ^▸ (Headquarters) got some ? Tell that to Grahame with his missed connections.

Pity the passenger(s) who arrives at Paddington at 23:31 or will the 23.30 to Cardiff be held till 23:45.