Great Western Coffee Shop

Third and final set ... ranging from the absurdly easy to the quite tricky!
One each, please.

1.
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2.
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3.
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4
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5.
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6.
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7.
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Come on folks - I've been too busy all day to look at this, so it could be your best chance yet  ;D

No 2 - Exeter St Davids/Central to London Waterloo? with Restaurant service.

5. SW to NE services. Fond memories of the Devonian and Cornishman in my student days travelling to and from Birmingham, mainly from Taunton where my Dad dropped me off and picked me up.

4. I think this must be Rosslare to Fishguard, with connections from Dublin (via Wexford and Waterford), Limerick (via Waterford), and somewhere else I can't identify (Mallow? Cork?); and with onward connections to Paddington.

Is 1. Twyford to Henley-on-Thames by any chance?

All those 3 are CORRECT.

No. 2 is not Exeter to Waterloo, though - sorry.

7. The last two stations look like Reading and Paddington.  As for the preceding stations I hazard a guess at the Cotswold Line.

Reading and Paddington are involved - but it's not the Cotswold Line for number 7.

Open season ... more than 24 hours gone ... any more ideas?  2, 3, 6 and 7 still unresolved.

3. This looks a strange one.  It's a long route with long durations between stops, and no connections mentioned.  It doesn't look like the complete service over a line, more like some sort of summary table, with the full service on the lines being shown in other tables.

Yes, it is an unusual one.  Unlike all of the other timetables, this one is for Saturdays.  And indeed all the stations and most of the lines have other scheduled passenger trains running over them.

Complete punt - But is 3 the Melksham line without the Melksham?

Is 7 Birmingham New Street, Leamington, Banbury to London, via Bicester to Marylebone and via Oxford to Paddington?

Yes ... and here is the complete table:

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I will correct my earlier comment - there WERE still timetable public trains over the TransWilts that year ... though I suspect the table shown might have been the only service over the west to north curve at Didcot at the time.

Monday to Friday, and Saturdays from 9th September
Trowbridge to Swindon at 14:55 arriving there at 15:50, with an intermediate call at Chippenham at 15:26 (connection - same train? - Westbury to Trowbridge at 14:15)
Swindon to Westbury at 18:12, arriving there 19:27.  Intermediate calls at Chippenham at (18:34-18:53) and Trowbridge at 19:19

Sundays until 3rd September
Swindon to Weymouth at  10:10 (arriving Weymouth 12:28)
Weymouth to Swindon at  19:44 (arriving Swindon 22:15)

Close enough to give it to you ...

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I reckon 2 is Bicester North and Aylesbury to Princes Risborough, High Wycombe, London Paddington and London Marylebone.

Extra station between Aylesbury and Princes Risborough is South Aylesbury Halt which closed on 5 June 1967 around the time period of grahame's timetable.

Yes, it is ... a real thin service from Bicester North, to Paddington, and no Haddenham and Thame Parkway.

so just no. 6 remains.

I am finding 6 a bit of a pig...Are you sure it is definately a weekday timetable?

Yes - I have just triple checked!

Ok - I dont think I am going to get any closer than my one guess on 6, which would be the Cotswold Line.

If it is, then please could you post the full timetable, if it isnt, then you will have to count me out of the running.

I think 6 is Cardiff via Hereford, to Shrewsbury and to Birmingham via Worcester.

Yes, it is.   Noting footnote "A" is "To London Paddington" - the only through train from Hereford to London via the Cotswold line in those days!

You're far too kind!  Thank you :)

Services that would have roared their way past Fosse Road Signal Box when I was there on (illicit) visits and deciding I very much wanted to become a signalman as a job.  Getting paid to play trains.

Thank you grahame for an enjoyable and head-scratching set of quizzes.

O/T but Bicester North, was AFAIK the scene of the last ever slip coach working on BR.
A coach at the rear of an express train that was detached at line speed, and coasted into the station where it was stopped by the guard. Splendid ! would never be allowed today.
Sometimes the slip coach terminated at the station where it was detached, in other cases it was coupled to a branch line service.
Some trains conveyed several slip coaches.