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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Slightly obscure - where was I this week?
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on: October 15, 2017, 21:42:56
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Apparently there is a law which requires there to be a fair each year on the Monday and Tuesday immediately before the 11th October. It now stretches for over a mile down the Main Street which makes it the longest street fair in Europe.
It is held on Old Michaelmas Day, as those in Abingdon still cling to the Julian calendar  I've seen Old Michaelmas given as 10th October in the press, which it was from 1752-1800. During the 19th century it was the 11th, as bobm says. Since 1900 it's been the 12th - but if you're minded to use an out-of-date calendar, I guess using an out-of-date version of it would seem natural enough. So I guess it didn't move forward to the 13th in 2000 because that was a leap year (whereas 1900, 1800 etc were not)? |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Total Weekend Closure of Reading 14-15 October
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on: October 15, 2017, 13:34:33
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No indication I've heard of over-running, yet. I fancy that that'll be what happens Graham, rather than another weekend this time - it has to be completed to allow the IETs▸ to run tomorrow. So I suspect that they'll work till finished, rather than abandon & reschedule
Do I assume then that the intent is that the IETs run on electric as far as Didcot tomorrow? If that's the case, why are there further closures through October and early November? |
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Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: Porkway Partway
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on: October 10, 2017, 13:29:21
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Yes, it was the original parkway station. In my opinion the subsequent use of parkway has been somewhat devalued, where the only station in a town is given the Parkway treatment purely because it happens to have a big car park and is used by motorists as a railhead (Port Talbot and Didcot being the obvious examples).
After all, Kemble has just had a big expansion to its car park, and I suspect the majority of passengers don't hail from Kemble, so why not call that Kemble Parkway too?
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Total Weekend Closure of Reading 14-15 October
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on: October 06, 2017, 10:14:06
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You'd probably need a couple of weeks to learn that route, especially if you were looking at learning Marylebone as well. There was talk about it a couple of years ago, but I guess it's not going to happen now that there are only a limited number of possessions remaining before Crossrail and electrification works are completed, and it will not be needed often, if at all, after that.
Gosh that's much more than I would envisaged for a fairly straightforward route (assuming Marylebone wasn't needed). Clearly that wouldn't be possible given the short notice or viable. Out of curiosity why would it take so long? |
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