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136  Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: Bonaparte's at Bristol Temple Meads on: May 26, 2021, 23:27:47
I, for one, hope it will reopen as a bar. I always enjoyed a pint in there after work if I had a bit of a wait for the next train to Sea Mills.

Dave
I rarely venture as far east at Bristol, but my usual approach is to end up drinking in the Cornubia in Temple Street, then making sure I leave 15 minutes before my train (and I'm sure others will walk faster than me). Easiest way of killing 45 minutes in my experience (and others would have jogged on and caught the previous hour's train, no doubt!).
137  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Railway bridges struck by road vehicles - merged topic, ongoing discussion on: May 25, 2021, 11:54:40
What I want to know is how many Olympic sized swimming pools go into a country the size of Wales?
A smidgin under 17 million.
138  All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: Looking ahead - the positive board even as services reduce to meet lower demand on: May 23, 2021, 19:41:31
WW1 - a land fit for hero's was not so significant a change.
I'd argue that this was the most significant change of all – it made suburbia mainstream, rather than "villas" for a few reasonably privileged people.
139  All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail / Great British Railways on: May 23, 2021, 19:38:26
I'd suggest staging it as ordering extra 9-car 80x's ASAP, with the new-spec interiors. As they come online, use that as a convenient time to refit the existing 9-car units. Then once there are enough 9-car units to cover the Paddington services, cascade the 5-car units onto routes where the interiors will be considered less sub-standard, such as the West Wales services, Cardiff-Portsmouth, and Cardiff-Nottingham. This would create a timescale for getting terminus stations ready for 9-car trains (resiting that bloody starter signal at Carmarthen, etc) and clearing obstructions (e.g. singling or gauntletting the Hamble Viaduct).
140  Journey by Journey / Wales local journeys / Re: more plans for cardiff to bristol corridor on: May 23, 2021, 16:14:08
There's even one case of three stations with the same name!

Can anyone identify this?

Whitchurch.

Shropshire, Hampshire and Cardiff
Did the Wales & West service to Waterloo ever call at the Hampshire one? If it did, there will have been a time when all three had direct train services from Cardiff Central.
141  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Railway bridges struck by road vehicles - merged topic, ongoing discussion on: May 23, 2021, 15:54:56
I wonder how fast he was going to end up with the cab facing that way!
142  Journey by Journey / London to the Cotswolds / Re: A restart to marketing trips out by train on: May 21, 2021, 21:02:32
Will the Famous Five be back in facemasks!
It's all right to take it off for the lashings of ginger beer!
143  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: A new livery for all GB trains - what colour d'ya want? on: May 20, 2021, 22:15:13
Maybe a uniformity of seat comfort, levelling up by refitting GWR (Great Western Railway) IET (Intercity Express Train) slab board seats to a comfort standard enjoyed elsewhere in the country.

Sorry I just saw a flying pig.
Look at section 41 of the report. You will be pleased.
144  Journey by Journey / Wales local journeys / Re: more plans for cardiff to bristol corridor on: May 20, 2021, 12:04:54
Most of the proposed station names are very working-title-ish – I hope they're replaced with names that say where they actually are:
Newport Road (Cardiff) Roath / Y Rhath
Cardiff Parkway St Mellon's / Llaneirwg
Newport West Tredegar Park / Parc Tredegar
Newport East Somerton
Llanwern, and
Magor.
145  All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail / Great British Railways on: May 20, 2021, 11:44:15
The best bit:
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Great British Railways will introduce new design and ride standards that will make sure all new trains are more comfortable than their predecessors. Subject to negotiations with suppliers and business case approval, Great British Railways will bring forward the normal replacement cycles on existing trains equipped with "ironing-board"-like seats, beginning with long-distance trains, in order to make the seats signifcantly more comfortable, or to replace and eventually remove them altogether.
Can we have buffet cars and drop-sash windows you have to lean out of to open the doors back as well, please?
146  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: A new livery for all GB trains - what colour d'ya want? on: May 20, 2021, 11:42:02
I've voted for Dark Green – I like the current GWR (Great Western Railway) livery, except for one thing: it would be really good to have the yellow stripe above the windows on First Class carriages back – it's hard to eyeball which way round the train is.
147  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Flexible seasons - suggested to be carnets with 15% discount on: May 20, 2021, 11:27:36
They'd do better either to address certain Anytime (Day) Returns being disproportionately priced first, or to price the 8 and 12 days in 28 flexi-seasons as 8/5 and 12/5 of a weekly respectively.
148  Journey by Journey / London to South Wales / Re: Temporary arrangements - London to South Wales - May 2021 on: May 13, 2021, 20:03:35
The thing that gets me with the buses that they mention is that they've missed off the Swansea-Neath-Merthyr X75 again. Taking a bus to the next line across that's running a normal service is completely reasonable, especially considering that Cardiff Central station is at the extreme south end of Cardiff city centre, and a good chunk of passengers change for the Valley Lines to Queen Street or Cathays anyway – if you're travelling at a time that lines up with the very infrequent X75, it's a practical route. (And, yes, if only we had the Vale of Neath in times like this.)
149  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Great Western Railway: on-board catering, buffets, Travelling Chef, Pullman - ongoing discussion on: April 25, 2021, 20:03:33
GWR (Great Western Railway) have stopped all on train catering after a request from the ORR» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) over concerns about how it can be delivered in a Covid secure way. 

Some on-train catering has now been reintroduced.
My wife was pleasantly surprised by this yesterday. Weekend box and a cup of tea!
150  Journey by Journey / Wales local journeys / Re: More seats for 3 years, but then fewer - Welsh Valley Trains. on: February 24, 2020, 16:38:11


Edit: Prof Cole's original slide, with permission - RS
I'm not sure how a 4tph Rhymney Valley service is meant to flow into a 5tph Barry one at Central. It's bound to look something like:
arr xx00, dep xx02
starts here, dep xx14
arr xx15, dep xx26
arr xx30, dep xx38
arr xx45, dep xx50
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