Great Western Coffee Shop

Hi

The Dawlish Airshow takes place on Thursday 19th August 2010. This event is FREE and is very popular. The train is the easiest way to attend as the railway line runs alongside the display point. There are stands on the lawn area selling gifts and toys. FGW even had their own stand last year giving away pens, balloons and mugs. The best station to alight at is Dawlish NOT Dawlish Warren as this is where it all takes place.

Also, get your advance tickets quickly as they can be very cheap to Dawlish, especially if bought as soon as they are available. Last year it only cost me and my mum ^10.20 with the F&F Railcard.

Thanks

To avoid duplication of topics, I've merged all three posts into this topic, in the Diary.

Please, James158, do not post any item more than once - it's much better to select one appropriate board (such as in the Diary, or the Calendar) and just post it there, for clarity.

Thanks,

C.  :-X

I might actually go this year, been working the last few years.

Saw this show a few years ago.  A brilliant show, especially as it is free.  We watched whilst sitting on the sea wall between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren.  Well worth visiting if you are in the area on the day.

You should. You will really enjoy it.

Yes, the views on the sea wall are fantastic. The only problem is the sea wall gets packed and may you may fall off as there is no barricade separating the wall and the beach. Me and my mum shall be getting our advance tickets asap.

I have now deleted the other 2 posts. I do not know how that happened, sorry about that.

Dosent this go on from 14/08 til 21/08?

Would you be related to James158 by any chance?

That would be Dawlish Carnival, the airshow is one day.

No 159James is not related to me. I have no idea to why he chose a similar name to mine.

The Dawlish Airshow takes place on Thursday 19th August 2010 only. The carnival takes place every other day. The carnival parade does not take place on Thursday 19th August 2010.

He got there first  ;) Registered since August 2008.

By the way, James158 I know you're only trying to make a point but please can you edit the post above to make it look less like shouting? It doesn't come across as very polite. Thanks.

What do you mean it is not polite. It doesn't look like I am shouting. I am just trying to make it look clearer and less complicated to read. I have edited the post anyway for you. Thanks.

Hi, James ... I'm posting to say "welcome to the Coffee Shop" with your first post here - I know that you've been a member for quite a while, and that it can take quite a bit of courage to make a first post - especially amongst well established and boisterous other members.  I hope you're going to post further and help us move other threads forward.

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A note to regular posters, confirming Inspector Blakey's post, and explaining a little further.

As a board standard, we do not allow multiple signups under different names from the same individual. Reasons include (but are not limited to) the fact that it would confuse and mislead other members.   And this is something we're fairly strong on, too.  But having said that, it's not exactly easy to be sure about new sign up requests and at times the odd one may creep under the radar, sometimes to raise suspicions later and be found out.

Should you as a member think that two accounts may be being run by the same person, please mention your suspicions to a moderator or administrator.  In many cases, you'll find that we come back to confirm to you that we're fairly sure we have separate people with similar names / posting habits ... but please ask, never the less - you are our eyes and ears, and it may well be that on occasions you're providing a direction for us to look at that we hadn't considered, or helping us to resolve a possible double identity.

The name "James" or "Jim" is quite widely used in this part of the UK.   And it's not uncommon for a certain genre of member to add in their favourite loco or stock number to their "handle".   So there's only a small co-incidence that we have apparently unrelated James158 and 159James here. I'll never say "never" ... but I would be gobsmacked if they turn out to be the same person.

By the way - I'm the "Graham Ellis" from Melksham.   I would welcome the BBC producer "Graham Ellis", Graham Ellis the rocket scientist from Brighton (who would have just cause to grumble about the number of FGW short trains and trains not running the full route on services to that place).  The Graham Ellis from the University of Galway, a distinguished academic, would also be welcome although I suspect he has other things to do than post about train services in an area with which I don't think he has any connection. And there are 000s more of us!

Well Graham, there must be a certain cachet attached to being the top 'hit' on Google UK for 'Graham Ellis'. Go on, admit it, I bet you like that!  ;) ;D.

You forgot to mention the drag racer and the Chair of Buckinghamshire Hospitals. Unless of course you are one and the same. A nice bedside manner then into your Nomex overalls for a tear-up the quarter mile across the county border at Santa Pod, Northants.  :P ;) ;D

Yeah, I know, severely off topic, but I'll finish by saying that I plan to be on the sea wall for the Red Arrows on the 19th August.

EDIT: And by the way the Red Arrows can be seen at many venues across coffee shop land in August. Minehead and Falmouth on the 11th; Bristol Balloon Fiesta on the 15th; Weston-Super-Mare on the 16th, Weymouth on the 18th; Fowey, Cornwall on the 19th; Torbay on the 25th and Dartmouth on the 27th.

Yes the Red Arrows can be seen at a lot of events this year. You missed out the Bournemouth Airshow.

I missed out Bournemouth because it is not served by First Great Western either directly or by Rail/Bus link. Therefore not in 'coffee shop land'  ;)

This is for chat about the Dawlish Air Show.

Posting info about special/charter trains, plane times etc

So, go ahead!

Thanks,
Jim

Thanks for posting, Jim.

However, to avoid duplication of topics, I've merged this with an existing topic in the calendar on the same subject.

A leads to b which triggers event c which results in a and bang were stuck in some kind of temporal loop ( not sure if this is a result of thread merging ) but reading the thread from the start feels like I'm reading it twice :-) so let's get it back on track, are there any planned extra services this year using the loco set or units like last year planned

Anybody going to the airshow then? I might pop along; weather permitting.

Had planned to go along on the 19th, but am now meeting up with other forum members on the 21st.

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=7328.msg72954#msg72954

Can't afford 2 days out in the same week! Will instead catch The Red Arrows at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta on the 15th. That'll only cost me a couple of quid to get too.

Scrap that - I was thinking it was this thursday. Realised the 19th is A level results day; plus i'm working. Grr

caugh phone in sick thats what me thinks.... humm will i get caught?