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Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: MetroBus
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on: December 01, 2018, 10:39:22
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Well I commend you for your patience, martyjon - I think I would have left before lunchtime, from what you say.
I'll second that! It's absolutely shameful what's going on. How many more headlines about never ending rush hour gridlock - and non rush hour congestion - must there be for the powers that be (whoever they are this week) to finally do something about it rather than just scrap one committee and form a new one with exactly the same remit?! I've said it before that never mind trying to sort out transport needs to support the future needs of the Greater Bristol area's ever growing population, it's way way behind even being able to support the existing one. With the amount of politics involved in trying to sort out even the slightest improvement, nothing major ever gets done And now with the chance of the first stage of major rail improvements - which had already gone all the way up to central government and worked thru the GRIP▸ process - being quietly dropped, you lose faith in anything - of worth at least - EVER happening I despair |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Problems with the Night Riviera sleeper - December 2014 onwards
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on: November 30, 2018, 10:47:51
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Another sleepless night tonight...
I know engineering work is obviously necessary, but I can't see the point of still running this as a sleeper service when you're expected to be woken up to get off at Plymouth for replacement road transport, then back on another train at St Austell!
"Engineering work is taking place between Liskeard and Par, closing some lines.
The 23:45 London Paddington to Par "Night Riviera" Sleeper service will terminate at Plymouth. Replacement road transport will run from Plymouth to St Austell for a rail connection onwards to Truro and stations to Penzance.
There will also be a rail connection from Plymouth to Liskeard for road transport from Liskeard to Bodmin Parkway, Lostwithiel and Par."
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Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: Four track for Filton Bank - ongoing discussion
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on: November 29, 2018, 14:33:08
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The faulty points have taken platforms 2 & 4 out of action
Luckily with the new platform 1 they can still run all westbound thru services using P1, and all eastbound thru services using P3
It's the terminating services (mostly BPW» -WSM but also some peak direct BTH» -BPW) they can't run as they involve a layover in P4 which would then block the thru services
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Great Western Main Line electrification - ongoing discussion
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on: November 27, 2018, 21:39:28
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There is no reason why the Swindon to Oxford service has to call and reverse at Didcot of course - though in many cases it might still make sense to do so. Avoid Didcot and you would have a potential journey time between Swindon and Oxford of under 30 minutes, as was the case for the occasional Oxford<>Bristol Turbo that used to omit Didcot when that service operated. My belief that the best way (in terms of chances of it happening, and maximising the potential market) is to route the East-West Rail services between Reading and Milton Keynes/Bedford to start at Bristol. I've said it before, but that would not only provide through journeys between Swindon and Oxford, but also provide a more long distance regional service eventually running between Bristol and Cambridge/Norwich/Ipswich. Although E-W Rail is no longer being electrified, initially at least, bi-mode trains now offer potential rolling stock.
Additional advantages of such a service would be providing an appropriate service for reopened stations at places like Corsham, Grove and Wootton Bassett - though you would need to be careful about compromising through journey times with too many intermediate stops. And of course there is precious little capacity between Didcot and Swindon available.
I, for one, was pretty gutted when the Bristol to Oxford Turbo direct service that used Foxhall Junction and therefore bypassed Didcot ceased, as I used that service quite frequently when it was available. I did try it a few times after once it returned to the current situation of a Bristol - Didcot train and 'hopefully' timing a decent enough connection, but remember several late nights sat around for ages at Didcot waiting for a return train home. Was definitely a backward step in my view, and one that should easily be able to be reinstated |
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Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: Four track for Filton Bank - ongoing discussion
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on: November 23, 2018, 10:20:40
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Don't you just love how the press latch onto things... BBC» news this morning;
"Commuters around the West's rail network faced a double whammy of disruption this morning.
A broken down train between Temple Meads and Parkway blocked lines for several hours leading to rush hour delays.
And a signalling fault between the Bristol station and Weston-super-Mare meant that all tracks were blocked west of the station for some time.
Meanwhile, Network Rail say the completed work around Bristol Parkway has made travel better"
Has made travel better? Does anyone know which unit failed and if trains were able to run up the other lines now we have four? If it was one of the four lines and other trains were able to be diverted around it, would have been much more productive to say that thanks to the recent works, whereas the lines would have been completely blocked before we were still able to keep other trains running during this morning's disruption
But that's what you get from the press
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Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: Four track for Filton Bank - ongoing discussion
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on: November 23, 2018, 09:18:59
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The sharper-eyed among you may also have noticed that the running-in boards on P4 use GWR▸ 's new less-legible font...
Yes I noticed that straight away. Was one of the first things I noticed when they opened the new P1 at BPW» and saw the new signs there, not matching any of the others. I was actually waiting to see if they'd introduce the same ones at FIT for the new P4, and of course they have! I don't get it... unless you're changing all of the platform numbers to match, why just change one? It may only be a small detail but it sticks out like a sore thumb |
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