Blue Pullman was down again yesterday operating Penzance-Newton Abbot-Kingswear-Exeter- Penzance.

First tour train into Paignton today from Hull. Only here for 2h45m if it arrives on time. Only time for a cup of tea or view the two new hotels.
Weather is fine at the moment but has been diabolical for the last 9 months.

Thanks for that. I found that site very difficult as there does not seem to be a search box.  I got Paddington, Liverpool St and a number of other locations but not what I wanted.

Which site?
Opentrains not yet.
Traksy has the track layout to Penzance but not the signals beyond Liskard.
Signalmaps is unsearchable.

I wonder if OpenTrains will be able to extend their coverage beyond Liskard. It took them a long while to add Marsh Barton station.

I was thinking of the Luminate system of traffic management.

Barnstaple trains are already overloaded and if Bideford was added in could not cope.
GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) has always preferred to plod along and were never really behind Okehampton because of a latent demand they could not cope with, but their hand was forced.
The hourly service to Okehampton has exceeded their expectations and I am sure a half hour service, in the peaks at least, from Barnstaple would exceed expectations; as did the half hourly service from Paignton when it was first introduced by way of an EU^» (European Union - about) subsidy.

All the jobs are being created in Exeter. Job creation in Torbay which is bigger in area and population than Exeter has failed to produce significant jobs and the continual housebuilding has made it a commuter town.

I read somewhere to grow passenger numbers you need a minimum half hour service and ideally a 20 minute service.
 

Isn't the signalling between Paddington and Reading computer controlled that selects the optimum path taking into account where all the trains are?

No good if the overhead wiring keeps falling down.

They are never going to get rid of the 800s. With all the variants there are 262 sets from the 395 Javelin to Aurora 810s

Sounds logical as Exeter depot can only really handle 2/3 car units. They would be used to the single leaf doors which are not ideal on the metro trains.

Can add Platform 2 at Exeter St Davids, lifts at Torquay and new entrance at Newton Abbot. The last two planning permission is running out.

It looks good, but will they have the stock. 150s might be available from Wales because 2 car trains between Truro/Par and Newquay might not be enough.

Will they make the loop as long as possible so it becomes dynamic and the trains do not have to stop?

Paignton used to have this problem as you were slowly being gassed on the platform but nowadays they usually turn the engine off. Perhaps they are more confident the engine will restart.
I've seem the driver go to the toilets to get water to fill a water cap that was platform side of a 143.

Paignton and Torquay on the list. Paignton lost 5000 jobs overnight in 2008 and only now is money being spent in the way of numerous grants.

This is reflected in Torbay population between the census of 2001 and 2011 when it stayed the same. Property prices collapsed in the 2008 financial melt down; and whereas London property began to recover in about 3 years Torbay remained stagnant for 10 years until 2018 before going up. Despite this Torquay has some housing on a par with Sandbanks and Salcombe.

The population has grown between 2011 and 2021 brough about by hundreds if not thousands of new houses, but the jobs are in Exeter. Good for the railways.