Great Western Coffee Shop

Good idea!   I've linked this thread to the calendar, and will look to set something up so that it's reachable from far and wide ... look forward to meeting you, Smokey, and many others on 28th ... PUT IT IN YOUR DIARY folks!

Plans (or lack thereof). Keeping it fairly informal - love to see as many people there who want to come along.

I'm planning to arrive in Swindon at 14:20 (that's off the TransWilts train that connects at Westbury with the 10:43 from Plymouth and walk across to Steam! for a look around.

Then walk over to Sir Daniel's Arms - the Wetherspoons pub that's roughly between Steam! and the Station - that's at about 17:00 / museum kicking out time.   I'm planning to leave on the 19:36 ... there's a connection off that at Westbury all the way to Plymouth at 22:40.

Five hours in Swindon looks about enough for me (a lot going on) ... earlier and later TransWilts arrivals at 12:20 and 15:50 both have connections from The West, and the 17:36 departure also connects west.  Later train as far as Westbury at 21:06.   Plenty of trains from other locations to Swindon to join in, and to get back later ... quotations of west country example timings above only because they're the most sporadic!

Keeping things informal, but simply to give you all fair warning, I can say that I, bobm and Ollie will all be attending this prestigious event!

Is anyone else able to join us?  :)

...and, given I can't get there til after 6.15, I'll be buying the last round.  ;D

Cheers, mate!  ::)

Sadly I have to decline due to prior engagement  have a pint for me  cheers WP.

Hope to be able to join you.  If I can I will be catching the same train as Grahame

Sadly I am unable to attend this prestigious event.  :'(

10 years is certainly worth celebrating  ;D

Sadly I won't be able to make it - I will be in Plymouth watching Albion v Fylde during the day and having a few ales in the evening - if you know The Minerva you will find me in there!

Hope you have a good time!

I hope to make it to the Sir Dan for 4pm, dependent on the wellbeing of my Stepfather, who I'm now full time carer for.

I'll be there into the evening thanks to the kind offer of overnight accommodation from one of the admin team.

Just a quick reminder this is happening tomorrow - hope to see a few new faces and scrounge a pint from some old acquaintances.

Enjoy Albion.

I shall be reffing torpoint Vs OPMs tomorow afternoon.

Second from top v second from bottom - should be a crowd puller.   ;D

Probably the longest fixture in the list if you use their full names - St Columba & Torpoint v Old Plymothian & Mannamedian

Easy for you to say!  ;) :D ;D

I'll be in the Sir Daniel's Arms in Swindon tomorrow from about 4:00pm onwards / downwards ...  :P

I had opms last week as well in a thrilling 17-17 draw in a Plymouth derby vs 3rd in the league, complete with journalists. Plymouth sports gazette have a video clip in their website

Happy 10th Birthday GWPF :D

Just think - we have the stroppy teenage years to come....  ;D

10 year olds can be quite stroppy too. My nephew is a case in point.

I wonder where he gets it from ? ;D.

Great to meet old friends and new at the Sir Daniel Gooch in Swindon yesterday early evening - for their information, I caught the 19:36 Westbury train with just a couple of minutes to spare - such was the good company that I really wanted to stay on until the 21:06, but I had a curfew of 21:00 to be home (to be available to let hotel guests in after that time if they locked themselves out!)

I'll leave it to individuals to identify themselves.

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And my picture including the chap who started it all.

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What is it about beer drinkers, railway enthusiasts and beards....  ;D

Ollie and I bucking the trend.

Ollie is too youthful and you are just indecisive when it comes to facial adornments.  ;D

And thanks to Lee too ... last head of this morning having landed on a ferry from France at Portsmouth on a rail replacement bus up to Southampton ...


Dunno ... that was a good pint, though.  Let me join in with the significant (also merry) crowd on the way back down from Chippenham to Melksham - they had been to the match against Bristol Rovers where the lost; a cheerful admission that their team had not performed well, and an almost embarrassing thankfulness that they can now get home by train on Saturdays.

From our group in Swindon, I was humbled to learn so much of members I've not met before, or only sat down with very briefly - and I'm thankful that although I have life issues going on at the moment, in many ways I'm having (thus far) an easy path through life's cycles, even though some of the current cycles are the steeper and mrs significant.