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1	All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: King's Speech, 7.11.2023	on: April 01, 2024, 18:29:02
Quote from: broadgage on November 14, 2023, 02:49:12 Glad to see proposed controls on pedi cabs. These SOUND a good idea, as no fossil fuel is used , but seeing the reckless way in which many are operated they are a menace. Many years ago I saw one take a corner near Trafalgar Square at high speed, overturning and tipping out the two passengers who did not appear to be hurt. They walked away and I hope did not pay the driver. They are in my view a menace slowing down other traffic and blaring out loud music. I wonder if they need a PRS licence?

2	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / JourneyCheck emails	on: February 05, 2024, 19:51:09
I signed up for JourneyCheck emails a long time ago. I submitted the details of my journey and the times I would like emails about disruption. But I get emails all the time for journeys I do not take and on days when I have asked not to receive emails. My commute is Bookham to Waterloo and I will normally get alerts about problems near Poole, Bournemouth, Basingstoke, well everywhere that SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) go in fact. Does anyone else get these imprecise emails for SWR or GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) journeys. From their website at www.journeycheck.com/swr/ Quote What Is JourneyCheck Alerts JourneyCheck Alerts is a facility which advises you on whether the trains in which you are personally interested are likely to be disrupted. You can specify when you wish to be alerted and receive update messages if the situation changes (for better or worse). Email message alerts confirm whether all is well or whether there are any problems. The service is free.

3	Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Heading off in THREE different directions to get to the same place.	on: January 09, 2024, 22:42:11
Quote from: stuving on January 09, 2024, 09:37:29 Quote from: grahame on January 09, 2024, 09:20:18 Quote from: Surrey 455 on January 09, 2024, 08:39:38 How about Waterloo to Guildford via Woking Cobham & Stoke D'Abernon Epsom Interesting sets of multiple routes - but everything from Waterloo goes though Vauxhall (and Queens Road and Clapham Junction) so it's scarcely headed off in different directions. From the Guildford end, there are only two routes until one splits after Effingham Junction. Twickenham also fails by the same next station rule, but by only one station (Strawberry Hill). Oops. I failed to read the criteria properly. Sorry.

4	Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Heading off in THREE different directions to get to the same place.	on: January 09, 2024, 08:39:38
How about Waterloo to Guildford via Woking Cobham & Stoke D'Abernon Epsom

5	Journey by Journey / London to South Wales / Re: Flooding, again, between Swindon and Bristol Parkway - 31.12.2023	on: January 07, 2024, 23:56:00
Of course there's bound to be a water shortage this summer

6	All across the Great Western territory / Diary - what's happening when? / Re: Estimates of station usage: April 2022 to March 2023	on: December 14, 2023, 22:17:01
Quote from: grahame on December 14, 2023, 18:08:55 Hear are a load of the missing ones that GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) serve: 11693876 WIM Wimbledon I've never seen a GWR train at Wimbledon. Surely you mean SWR^» (South Western Railway - about)?

7	Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Annoying / amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos to illustrate press articles	on: December 04, 2023, 00:41:44
Quote from: Marlburian on December 03, 2023, 12:48:56 I visit(ed) the site most days -including this morning - and wondered why the news didn't look fresh! The various MyLondon pages for the towns in the London Borough of Hillingdon don't get updated very often and many stories are for completely different non-local towns. The same is true of the SurreyLive pages. Plus many of the new stories there are along the lines of "I visited XXX restauarant / bar / village and you won't believe..."

8	All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Waterloo Station's Eurostar platforms cost ^4 million	on: November 13, 2023, 19:50:37
Quote from: RichardB on November 13, 2023, 13:49:37 It's looking good at that end of the station now. We now have a very 21st Century Windsor Side and the lower concourse is already looking good and will be better when more businesses join the ones already there. Putting the station toilets in that lower concourse was a good move because it gets more people down there. I've no idea if the plan is to reopen the former ones after refurbishment too. My understanding was that the refurbished toilets would re-open in Autumn 2023, then I read somewhere (on a hoarding on the Waterloo Cab road I think) it was going to be Summer / Autumn 2024. I can't find any predicted date on line. I am mostly happy with the temporary toilets in the bike racks because they are a lot closer to Platform 1 & 2 (where I normally get my train) than the old one. The downside with the temporary toilets is the cubicles are very, very cramped. It's difficult to squeeze in and close the door. It would be nice if there were permanent toilet facilities at both ends of the station. Doesn't Paddington have toilets on Platforms 1 & 12?

9	Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Summer outings - to where?	on: October 29, 2023, 12:24:04
4. New Milton?

10	All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture Overseas / HST's heading for Mexico?	on: August 30, 2023, 21:16:57
Railway Gazette and Railtech.com are reporting that several Intercity 125's are on their way to Mexico to be used on a new high speed railway. From Railway Gazette Quote Three withdrawn ex-British Rail IC125 High Speed Train diesel power cars and 11 MkIII coaches were shipped from Great Yarmouth in the UK^▸ (United Kingdom) onboard the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Arkhangelsk on August 9; the ship called at Castellón in Spain on August 16, and in late August was crossing the Atlantic towards Corpus Christi in Texas. According to sources in Mexico, the vehicles have been acquired from UK leasing company Angel Trains by Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec. The navy-owned company owns the trans-isthmus rail corridor linking the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico which is being rehabilitated under Tren Interoceánico programme. The operator has been seeking rolling stock for use on planned passenger services. Angel Trains told Railway Gazette International that it would not comment on a commercial matter. Those are the only two websites I can see covering this story, I can't see anything on the mainstream news sites.

11	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Here we are over a year on - what effect industrial action on your rail use?	on: August 26, 2023, 12:38:40
This summer I would have liked to make more day trips by rail. Unfortunately some of the Saturday rail strike days have coincided with good weather with the following day (Sunday) not so good so I tend to postpone my plans until another time - sunbathing in light rain or drizzle is not that enjoyable. The weather in the south today is not brilliant so I would not be making plans to go to the coast today even if the trains were running.

12	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: New Ticket Machines	on: August 14, 2023, 20:51:48
The two ticket machines at Dorking Deepdene mentioned above have now been replaced with normal looking ones. Was there a reason for their removal as they're not very old? Photo of one of the new ones:

13	All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: TVM - promoted "quick buy" tickets still cost more than they should	on: August 09, 2023, 20:55:20
I had the opposite experience recently. A few weeks ago I wanted to travel from Bookham to Fratton. I was surprised that the TVM^▸ (Ticket Vending Machine) was charging less than I was expecting until I saw that the default option was via Barnham. I was planning to go via Guildford which was the quicker option by about an hour. The other options just showed a price and ticket type and it was not obvious which button to press to go via Guildford. I eventually worked it out. That was at a SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) TVM. The next station down the line is Leatherhead which is a Southern station. Their TVM also defaulted to via Barnham. App or website default to via Guildford.

14	All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Disruptive Marketing: station naming	on: July 28, 2023, 23:25:20
Quote from: eightonedee on July 28, 2023, 16:57:52 Quote Don’t start me on London Oxford Airport. ....I think they were hoping to attract Ryanair No, that would be London Dublin Airport!

15	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption elsewhere - ongoing, since Oct 2014	on: July 26, 2023, 20:43:58
Quote from: stuving on July 26, 2023, 19:19:13 NR^» (Network Rail - home page) did put out a video on (no longer?) Twitter..... I'll keep calling it Twitter for the time being. The URL is twitter.com. Type in X.com and it redirects to twitter.com!

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