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4741  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Reading Station improvements on: June 02, 2014, 23:46:52
Er, the Queen's coming, guys. ER! If it doesn't smell of fresh paint, she won't know she is at an opening.
4742  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Reading Station improvements on: June 02, 2014, 22:31:11

Judging by the picture in the article she look so pleased to be going to Reading  Grin

Jesting aside this is great news for the team that have worked on Reading Station to have HM the Queen open the station

Will she be continuing to dress to a bedding theme? And I look forward to hearing the Duke of Edinburgh's views on work. All the orange jackets might just be a little unsettling, though...

Also jesting aside, it is indeed great news for the team at every level from drawing board to shovel to have their work recognised thus. I think it is also recognition of rail travel's renewed pre-eminence, and of the value of such infrastructure projects to the national good.
4743  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Where was Four Track, Now! on 31 May? on: June 01, 2014, 20:12:23
 Grin



Cracking day out, and I can heartily endorse the Ship Aground in Minehead, along the harbourside, for a plate of whitebait, a bucket of chips with garlic mayo, and a couple of pints of Cotleigh brewery's finest.
4744  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Where was Four Track, Now! on 31 May? on: June 01, 2014, 19:54:08
No cigar here.
4745  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: The wrong direction on: June 01, 2014, 19:22:05
Gillingham in Dorset is pronounced with a G as is Good, whereas the Kent homograph has a G as in Gentle.

Poulton and Bolton, both in Lancashire, caused some confusion once, as I argued the fare I had been quoted for a journey from Blackpool North.

Someone well known (I forget whom, but the daughter of a famous whatever) hired a taxi with her equally well off and thick friends to get to a concert at Leeds Castle.  They never got there, but did enjoy a pint of John Smiths.

And some say the Falkland Islands were discovered by accident, when the helmsman on the way to Australia incorrectly turned to starboard. His captain remonstrated: "I said port, Stanley!"
4746  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Where was Four Track, Now! on 31 May? on: June 01, 2014, 19:03:08
So where was I?


4747  All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: Intercity Express Programme (IEP) - ongoing discussion on: May 30, 2014, 20:30:40
There is more to having a train manager than just checking tickets, something that won't be absolutely necessary when all stations called at have a gateline. Passenger safety is the main purpose, although accidents are an absolute rarity now, but a representative of the TOC (Train Operating Company) and a goldmine of information about connecting services are equally valid reasons for having a presence in the passenger areas.
4748  Journey by Journey / London to the Cotswolds / Re: Worcester Parkway project on: May 30, 2014, 08:44:56
Please don't encourage / provoke him ...  Wink Cheesy Grin

Steady, now!
4749  All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: Intercity Express Programme (IEP) - ongoing discussion on: May 30, 2014, 08:43:46
I flew home from Corfu recently on a brand new A321 with similar-looking seats. They were perfectly comfortable for a 3^ hour journey, and apparently much lighter than the "conventional" style, leading to big savings in fuel.
4750  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture - related rail and other transport issues / Re: Imperial and/or metric units. Discussion on the use and teaching of on: May 28, 2014, 18:42:44
Farage. Mm. French is it?
4751  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture - related rail and other transport issues / Re: Imperial and/or metric units. Discussion on the use and teaching of on: May 27, 2014, 22:02:24

No doubt though Electric train, like Mr Farage, you'll continue to enjoy the odd imperial pint.  Tongue Wink Grin

I quite like litres, BNM.
4752  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture - related rail and other transport issues / Re: Govia win new Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise on: May 24, 2014, 12:42:01
Indeed, EE, and the forthcoming building works and related line closures are reflected in the franchise model. It is being let on a management contract. Additional revenues go back to the treasury, and Govia gets to keep a 3% profit margin.  Go-Ahead, not long ago a small bus company, own 65% of Govia, the rest being owned by Keolis. This will raise Go-Ahead's profits by around ^20 million after tax per year, or up 33% against last year's. Given they are likely to have only two or three years of smooth running across the network, this doesn't seem outrageous.
4753  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Annoying / amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos to illustrate press articles on: May 23, 2014, 18:21:58
Saw an 'R' reg bus in Bristol today with the 'WiFi fitted' stickers on the windows. A Volvo B10BLE with Wright Renown body. That'd be at least 16 years old.

Yes, but it's only 56 kbps.
4754  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture - related rail and other transport issues / Re: New French trains too wide for 1300 platforms on: May 23, 2014, 16:39:05
Some good points there stuving. Not checking properly arguably led to the loss of the first Arianne 5, through a mismatch of computer programmes developed for Arianne 4. And a certain well-known ship, built by a certain well-known engineer, was stuck in Bristol's harbour for more than a year after launch because it wouldn't fit through the locks. The locks were supposed to have been widened, but weren't. The ship was built wider than it should have been, and fitting the engines before it was towed out, giving it a deeper draught than was originally intended.

S^gol^ne Royal's principal concern in this fiasco will be S^gol^ne Royal.
4755  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture - related rail and other transport issues / Re: New French trains too wide for 1300 platforms on: May 23, 2014, 07:16:29
RFF are now blaming SNCF (Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais - French National Railways), for not telling them there are two different specifications. Stations built within the last three decades are OK, the older regional ones are not. SNCF are blaming RFF for doing it wrong in the first place. S^gol^ne Royal, Environment Minister and former presidential squeeze, has expressed outrage. RFF have now reverted to the time-honoured get-out clause of "they needed widening anyway".

All in all, it seems they didn't get the "t^tes up", and it's all gone ".....er, wrong".
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