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1  All across the Great Western territory / Smoke and Mirrors / Re: Notification of different standards - Bedwyn and Melksham on: March 24, 2024, 11:53:58
Is there a minimum platform length at which an 80x can stop? Could it be occupation time of the single line section?

But yes, double standards.
2  All across the Great Western territory / Introductions and chat / Re: Where would you recommend for an Easter Escape? on: March 19, 2024, 13:41:25
A second vote for for Rutland. Visited last year. Lovely Lincolnshire Wolds, Rutland Water and places to visit. A hidden gem.
3  Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Devon and Cornwall resignalling on: March 15, 2024, 20:29:00
It reminds me of a drawing of a modern signalling control centre with consoles and screens and off to the left there is a sign which reads, "In case of emergency, break glass".

And there visible, behind a glass door, is a full manual lever frame and block instruments.  Smiley
4  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: Swivel Ferries on: March 10, 2024, 16:19:44
There are a couple of survivors on the Manchester Ship Canal where the free foot ferry (bankrolled by Peel Ports - the canal owner) proved access between public footpaths that were bisected on its construction in the 1890s.

Mods: this (and maybe some above) may be better placed in the foot ferry thread.
5  Journey by Journey / London to South Wales / Re: Coupling on: March 09, 2024, 16:04:59
AFAIK (as far as I know), Weddings used to be only permitted in suitable and registered premises, but these days can be performed anywhere provided that a suitably qualified person such as a priest or registrar officiates. A railway chaplain presumably satisfies that requirement.
I think that the captain of a ship is also allowed to perform a marriage.

Thanks! I shall re-propose this to our railway management team, quoting the original BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) article.
6  Journey by Journey / London to South Wales / Re: Coupling on: March 09, 2024, 14:16:04
I suggested the possibility of weddings on our heritage railway but was told it required a fixed licensed premises open to the general public, for weddings are a public event. Maybe they have changed the law.
7  Journey by Journey / London to Didcot, Oxford and Banbury / Re: Disabled access at Cholsey: time for a campaign! on: March 05, 2024, 17:30:01
The irony about Cholsey is that Platform 4 on the Up Relief is near level access with the ramp to the station carpark but no doubt there will be some provision that prevents this easy fix. If it was, a wheelchair bound person or person with mobility issues could enter the London bound platform; and even if they wanted to travel to Didcot and beyond they could travel via Goring and Streatley and use the lifts there to access the correct platform for their onward journey.
8  Journey by Journey / South Western services / Re: Wokingham resignalling on: February 19, 2024, 14:24:29
Though at least the signal numbering allows them to be inserted at a later date.

Along with the third rail? Smiley
9  Journey by Journey / South Western services / Re: Car Parking, APCOA (in this case, Oriental Road, Woking) - a cautionary tale on: February 09, 2024, 12:18:52
Graham, this is the kind of subject the 'Blackbelt Barrister' on YouTube likes to cover. I would drop him a line outlining your case.
10  Sideshoots - associated subjects / Campaigns for new and improved services / Re: Bridport branch reopening proposal on: February 07, 2024, 16:47:50
Interesting non-use of tail lamps

There'd be a few Form-1s flying around if the DI had noticed.  I've got a sectional appendix and can't see any tail-lamp exemption (I don't think there were any on the Western, anywhere).  Mind you, Bradpole Crossing doesn't get a mention, either.  Which is odd, as there should be an instruction for traincrew to work the gates

Local instruction perhaps as its a single vehicle and can't be divided?
11  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / A Piano player at St Pancras on: January 29, 2024, 22:26:16
Has anyone else seen this?  BTP (British Transport Police) are involved. Interesting principles are discussed.

Black Belt Barrister Piano at St Pancras
12  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: London Day Travelcards on: January 20, 2024, 09:59:36
I am planning to travel between Basingstoke and London Waterloo several times in one day, would I be able to use a London day travelcard for this?

If you plan to make the journey 3 times or more, a weekly season ticket will be your cheapest option. Ticket only to Waterloo and use your Oyster (Smartcard system used by passengers on Transport for London services) or debit card for the Underground/bus journeys to benefit from daily capping.
13  Sideshoots - associated subjects / Railway History and related topics / Re: OTD - 18th January 1965 - closure, Ruabon to Morfa Mawddach on: January 18, 2024, 16:17:45
Also, was it BR (British Rail(ways)) that sold circular tour tickets via that line and back along the North Wales Coast, or was it a train that actually ran right round, and marketed as such?

I think you are referring to the 'Radio Tours' that ran in summer from the North Wales resorts. The 'Radio' was a running commentary. I think they ran Rhyl, Corwen, Barmouth, Afon Wen, Bangor, Rhyl.  Would loved to have taken one.
14  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Avanti on: January 16, 2024, 23:07:54
I had a rule at work, and tried to advise its adherence down the line: Before you write something in the corporate environment, think what it would look like in tomorrow's Times.
15  Journey by Journey / Wales local journeys / Re: South Wales local services - Pembroke, Fishguard, Swanline, etc. on: January 16, 2024, 20:14:30
A curious little fact I have just come across in the June 1941 issue of the Railway Magazine (p. 244) regarding the railway at Fishguard. Apparently the last mile of the railway to the port was jointly owned by the GWR (Great Western Railway) and the Great Southern Railway of Ireland through the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbour Company. I never knew that even tiny bit of the British mainland system had an Irish owner.

I wonder if or when this arrangement was untangled.
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