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1C04 had a set swap at BRI this  morning believed to be a dodgy power car !

For the many with no idea what 1C04 is...

0730 London Paddington to Penzance via Bristol Temple Meads.

Which later this month *may* become an IET service.

I personally don’t hear of them up in my area.

...eh?  They happen quite regularily at Plymouth....

Oh and while we are about it - welcome to the Coffeeshop want2workrail, nice to have you on board!

I can confirm the possibility of an IET on this service as my ticket reservation was for coach J which, of course, does not exist on HST services.  This was corroborated by GWR station staff at RDG (Reading for those of you who don't know (don't want another telling off by Bignosemac with his sarcastic undertones  ;) )) and GWR's social media services.

All things being well, 1C04 WILL be an IET (or rather 2x5-car) from Monday, 20th August

.... and then run as 5 coaches instead of 10 from Tuesday 21st, August.  ;D

As someone who has travelled up from Weston to Paddington recently with coach J reservations, I wouldn't get too excited just yet.
HST's both times for me

Your better off seeing an HST come round the corner as long as services running IET are more than likely to be just 5 carriages.

The forum is read by many. Including non-members for the public boards. Those of us with a wide knowledge of railway terminology, jargon, acronyms & abbreviations are able to understand the gist when such terminology is used. The wider public often can't. The coffeeshop isn't meant to be a talking shop just for those in the industry, wanting to be in the industry, or enthusiasts of the industry. It's open to all and is all the better for being so.

My reply to your opening post was neither a telling off nor was it sarcasm. It was a helpful explanation for this forum's wide audience of what the sparse thread title '1C04' referred to.

I have been, and probably will be again, just as guilty of using railway jargon without explanation. Its easy to slip into the shorthand for brevity. I do try to remember the wider audience though.

Whilst a little knowledge may not be a dangerous thing here, it can be off-putting.

Regards

bignosemac

(Raised in the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lived for 10 years near a station that told you to be quiet. Now living in a town that could do with a station, possibly 250... )

For those of you wondering about the ps on BNM's last post.  The answers are TAU (Taunton), SHH (Shirehampton) and Chard although I am puzzled as to why it needs 250 stations  ???

You need to think like a Roman rogerw...

Something about Castle Cary, I would suspect!

Well, Castle Cary is CLC, which doesn't work in Roman numerals.

I'd obviously like the branch from Chard Junction to reopen, with a station as close to the middle of Chard as possible. Move Tesco out the way, run the tracks through Stringfellow Park (I'll have to walk Finn in Jocelyn Park instead) and terminate in 'The Original Factory Shop' building. A building that looks remarkably like a Victorian station already. This station would of course be Chard Central (CCL). Small matter of a few dozen houses surrounding this building to remove also...

Although I chose CCL I could have gone for a cup of tea instead...

I suspect that "Chard Central" would be an unlikely name.  Looking elsewhere, places with a "Central" and nothing else like Lincoln and Rotherham have come about where all other town stations have closed.  Milton Keynes Central and Telford Centrals are perhaps more accurately Centres - new town centres, where a major urban area develops out from that centre.    Should Chard's population rise tenfold, I'll give you "Chard CENTRAL"  :D

But is the old Joint Station really central to the great metropolis that is now Chard? While Furnham, which is where is really is, has been part of Chard (or Greater Chard, if you prefer) administratively for a long time, it's distinctly off-centre. Maybe they missed a trick when the joint station took over as "Chard", and should have called it Furnham Orchard.

After staying for "Just one more" in The George, Crewkerne yesterday, and then having to walk at a very brisk pace not to miss my train I began to wonder why they didn't build the town a bit closer to the station. I think, perhaps that Misterton would be a more accurate name for the said station.

There was a proposed railway in 1848, one of the battle of the gauges, that would have run just to the north of South Street before swinging north neat the town centre.
 However most proposed lines chose the current route