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Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Pulling the cord
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on: March 11, 2010, 19:33:01
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I was on a HST▸ stopping at St Germans and the TM‡ said only coaches A-D would b unlocked. (despite being big enough for 6 coaches at least!) I'd be in a bit of a rush if i was in H wanted to get off!
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Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: About time First Great Western upgraded lighting at Coombe Junction Halt?
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on: December 23, 2009, 18:11:51
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As a further point, does it even have an electricity supply? Having to run a mains supply to it or provide some sort of generator or battery arrangement would make the whole affair even more ridiculous.
Edit: as an afterthought, there are lots and lots of roads and footpaths all over Cornwall and the rest of the country that don't have blazing streetlights. Would you like these all to be lit as well on the ground that "every passenger matters"?
Theres an information noisy box so theres obviously electricity supplied. Have NR» even bothered to repair the platform yet? Its a shame if they are leaving it because its a lovely area! BTW▸ , if anyone here can run up from Coombe to Liskeard faster than the train, I would pay for the lights myself!  |
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Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: xmas comes early for truro late night shoppers
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on: December 20, 2009, 22:48:49
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dooby, can I suggest you supply the forum with pictures of all this rubbish that is preventing you from sitting down on a FGW▸ service beyond Plymouth. If not, then give it a rest, it's becoming tiresome.
Perhaps we should swap the FGW trains with 4 car wonderfully magical Cross Country trains. See what he thinks then. As opposed to those 2 carriage pieces of junk that trundle between Penzance and Plymouth? Yes please if you don't like them DON'T GET ON THEM!!!! i'm sure our poor little 150's think just as highly of all the scumbags that travel on them for free in Cornwall! As for litter, the voyagers are the worst as they now get no on train cleaning west of Exeter, the FGW HST▸ 's are cleaned between Ply-Exd on most Cornish services. As for ticket checking, won't matter next september when ticket barriers are installed at Truro, all the Cambornites will have to start selling the big issue to actually buy a train ticket to get to Truro crown court every week. Saw a XC▸ lady cleaning west of Newton Abbot on Saturday, unless she was a passenger cleaning for the fun of it, id say she was being employed to clean the train! |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: FGW HSTs vs Arriva XC Voyagers
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on: December 06, 2009, 14:50:10
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ok - I've travelled on a vomiter from reading to birmingham on a few occasions now and whilst they are not as good as FGW▸ they are not that bad
They vibrate - but no worse than a 158 or 175.
The only issue is the smell of the toilets......and they are not as comfy as a FGW HST▸ but are no less comfy than a pendolino or any other DMU▸
This route has had a lot of complaints recently due to small trians and big overcrowding. I think its prob the overcrowding issue that makes people hate these trains! |
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Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Newquay Branch line - engineering work, closures, incidents (merged topics)
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on: December 03, 2009, 19:31:57
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Best thing XC▸ can do is pull out of Cornwall completely, then on summer saturdays have a mix of HST▸ 's/units on the Newquay with units stopping at all intermediete stations.
Are you sure you want them to pull out of Cornwall completely, or just from Newquay? they may aswell pull out completely and leave the west to FGW▸ , if FGW ran an hourly Pnz/Ply-Bristol service with some being Pad services via Bristol then we don't need XC, you rarely see anyone travelling beyond Birmingham anyway because of XC's rediculous walk up fares and non-availiablity of Advance fares for longer distance. Who wants to travel on a crappy voyager anyway? I know many people wont back me up on this but I have yet to experience a bad trip in a voyager and I travel up to Coventry so a good 5-6 hours spent in one per trip! Im glad XC run into cornwall because the last thing i want to do is to haul heavy bags around Birmingham and Bristol/Plymouth. |
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Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Extra train for Cornish Plymouth Argyle fans
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on: August 29, 2009, 23:41:51
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If I had my way all the Argyle fans would be barred from trains! all they do is moan! all other teams trash trains and get drunk, argyle fans just whinge about standing or paying a tenner to sit in first
Dont think the cleaner will be saying the same thing. We Argyle fans have bigger things to moan about than standing or paying ^10. No one here has obviously been to Home Park recently! |
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