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Title: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: LiskeardRich on May 05, 2013, 18:52:44 http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/UPDATED-Queen-visit-St-Ives-St-Michael-s-Mount/story-18882041-detail/story.html#axzz2SRRxmtZ0
Quote The Queen and Prince Philip are to visit St Ives and St Michael's Mount later this month. The Royal visit will include a walk along St Ives seafront to the RNLI lifeboat station and the Tate gallery. The party will then travel by car to Marazion and the iconic island in Mount's Bay where they will make shoe prints in soft casts on arrival. The Queen and Prince Philip were last in west Cornwall two years ago when they visited Penzance and the Isles of Scilly in glorious sunshine. However, this will be the Royal couple's first visit to St Ives. A notice sent out by Buckingham Palace today stated that the Royal visitors would arrive at Erth station on Friday, May 17, where they will transfer to a scheduled train to St Ives. They will be met at St Ives station by lifeboat crews and will unveil a plaque to mark their visit. They will then proceed to Tate St Ives where they will tour the building, meeting architects, staff and artists. They will then head to Marazion where they will take the amphibious boat to St Michael's Mount and walk to the castle to take lunch as guests of the St Aubyn family. After lunch, they will tour the castle and chapel and meet families that live on the Mount before leaving the island and departing from Cornwall. Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: Brucey on May 05, 2013, 19:04:42 Given there are no additional services booked that day, I assume members of the public will be permitted to travel on the same train?
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: LiskeardRich on May 05, 2013, 19:09:25 That was my thought as well, unless we are going to see an odd cancelled service?
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: bobm on May 05, 2013, 19:20:40 On return trip cancelled on the branch today because of a lineside fire!
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: Network SouthEast on May 05, 2013, 20:06:55 The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have both travelled before on ordinary scheduled trains before alongside members of the public.
I've never been to St Ives, but I dare say that the locals aren't any more dangerous to their security than those they've shared trains with in the South East! Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: Southern Stag on May 05, 2013, 20:08:58 The Queen has taken service trains from London-Cambridge from time to time, although she is normally in First Class, she won't have that luxury on the St Ives branch.
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 05, 2013, 20:10:03 Posting personally, I would like to see the manager of the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership there to greet HM and HRH on that train. ;)
HM = Her Majesty HRH = His Royal Highness Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: SandTEngineer on May 05, 2013, 20:26:48 Well they could form up a special set at Long Rock depot ;D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/treflyn/7826667794/
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 05, 2013, 20:28:09 Good one! ;D
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: John R on May 05, 2013, 20:38:37 Posting personally, I would like to see the manager of the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership there to greet HM and HRH on that train. ;) HM = Her Majesty HRH = His Royal Highness Glad to see you confirming those abbreviations, Chris. One of the many howlers of the BBC's grossly inept coverage of the Jubilee flotilla last year was the commentator referring to Her Majesty as Her Royal Highness. Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: grahame on May 05, 2013, 20:52:12 Isn't there a loco or two and some rather nice 1st class carriages at Penzance during the day?
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: bobm on May 05, 2013, 20:56:36 Problem is you'd need two locos - and that assumes 57s are cleared for the branch.....
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: Southern Stag on May 05, 2013, 21:12:30 I believe the St Ives branch is being ran by two Class 150s at the moment, so it's possible that one will be reserved for the royal party and the other for normal passengers.
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: JayMac on May 05, 2013, 21:19:17 Let's hope Brenda looks a bit more cheerful in a Class 150 than she did in a 365:
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/12/17/1261065441389/Queen-Elizabeth-II-gets-o-001.jpg) That said, her and Steve Davis won't have the option of travelling 1st Class on the St Ives branch. Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 05, 2013, 21:43:32 Hmm. I thought we'd agreed that was Fred Goodwin, looking rather grumpy after his knighthood had been pulled from under him, so to speak? ::)
Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 05, 2013, 21:49:36 Glad to see you confirming those abbreviations, Chris. Oh, we're very tight on the accuracy of abbreviations used on this forum, John! ;) :D ;D Title: Re: which units are being spruced up for this? Post by: bobm on May 17, 2013, 07:38:07 From Journeycheck
Quote St Erth Facilities: Ticket Office Closure At St Erth station. The ticket office will be closed from 17/05/2013 09:30 for 1 Hours. One hopes Her Majesty bought her ticket in advance for her trip to St Ives today! ;D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |