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All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Discrimination against night shift workers
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on: July 27, 2018, 12:33:21 pm
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Working out whether the ticket time is more or less than 24 hrs? Surely it's not that difficult, even for the Cornish? 😉
As a Cornishman, I take your comment as being offensive and unnecessary given the context. I invite you to apologise to the forum. As a Plymothian, who spent most of the first dozen years of his life living in West Cornwall, and to this day regularly engages in similar banter with friends on both sides of the Tamar I must politely decline your invitation, if only because you do not speak for the entire forum. I regret I hurt your feelings, which are clearly a great deal more delicate than those of most Cornishmen that I know. (and by the way - cream on first before jam!) As a cornish man I’m glad I saw it as a bit of banter. Got to remember not veryone has a sense of humour in this day and age! |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Stay at home Sunday
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on: July 17, 2018, 09:18:04 am
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It’s not totally GWRs fault. The contract terminology dates from 1999. The powerful union are resisting change.
I was at a beer festival with a member of train crew on Saturday evening and the resource manager called and offered him a huge bonus to work his unavailable Sunday. He had to decline as there wasn’t a chance of being under the alcohol limit by anytime on Sunday!
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Stay at home Sunday
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on: July 17, 2018, 12:34:01 am
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23:35 arrival 1C92 17:57 Paddington to Plymouth ran as two seperate trains. 17:57 Paddington to Plymouth and 21:37 Plymouth to Penzance. Connection maintained at Plymouth as it was the same set throughout.
I was on this one. Why would it show as run as two separate trains? I’m guesisng due to previously advertising as being cut at Plymouth? The driver who took over at Exeter was known to my friend so we had a quick chat with him, and he took the set from Exeter to Penzance. |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Stay at home Sunday
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on: July 16, 2018, 12:06:54 pm
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Things must have improved. I caught the delayed (roughly) 2030 from Exeter and it was going through to Penzance.
The only time I’ve ever been glad of a late train. We caught the 2006 from Axminster aiming for the 2120 (ish) to Plymouth. We pulled in at platform 3 at Exeter at 2042 as the delayed Penzance train was approaching.
My car was in Plymouth for the weekend as I was out of Liskeard earlier than the first train from Cornwall on Saturday morning, which would have been a contingency with all the cancellations
I think they did, but because trains were removed from the system(s) Realtime Trains uses as it's source, usually a great help at times of disruption and cancellations, wasn't much use yesterday. So yes, I believe some further trains from London did make it to Penzance but we don't have a record of which ones did and which ones didn't in the end. It may have been that GWR were able to run more trains than expected at the start of the day. Hope for all those who were travelling that they were able to. I believe the one I was on is the last scheduled Penzance service normlwly. It was full and standing. |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Stay at home Sunday
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on: July 16, 2018, 10:36:51 am
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The last direct train from London to Penzance, the 1457, will now start at Exeter.  Things must have improved. I caught the delayed (roughly) 2030 from Exeter and it was going through to Penzance. The only time I’ve ever been glad of a late train. We caught the 2006 from Axminster aiming for the 2120 (ish) to Plymouth. We pulled in at platform 3 at Exeter at 2042 as the delayed Penzance train was approaching. My car was in Plymouth for the weekend as I was out of Liskeard earlier than the first train from Cornwall on Saturday morning, which would have been a contingency with all the cancellations |
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Always two sides to a story
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on: July 16, 2018, 10:31:25 am
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Noting a suggestion elsewhere that hinted that the train was really powered by 66106 ... and that 60009 was little more than a decorative figurehead. Is that the case, and does it mean that the train was really pulled by a steam engine or not?
The diesel was doing all of the hard work except on the Kingswear branch |
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