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Sideshoots - associated subjects / News, Help and Assistance / Re: Some Site Statistics
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on: April 20, 2012, 23:14:03
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I haven't lived in Cornwall for over 5 years and it's 2AM so surely an honorable brownie is in order. The name Roseland Peninsular puzzled me... I always knew it as The Lizard Peninsular  But for a useless fact of the day, when you make an Overseas Phone Call, the chances are it's routed via Goon Hilly  If you're ever in the area, it's well worth a visit! A fantastic day out and some of the things and history you'll pick up IMO▸ is fascinating As an aside I didn't think I'd spend the first 30 minutes of my 22nd year in Coach F on a HST▸ to Taunton but each to their own...  The reason its puzzling you is that the lizard peninsular and roseland peninsulars are two seperate places, roseland is about 25 miles east of the lizard, where st mawes is heading towards st austell from truro. Therefore completely unrelated to goonhilly |
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / News, Help and Assistance / Re: Some Site Statistics
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on: April 19, 2012, 10:19:47
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With regards to BT, I have noticed many friends facebook posts stating "posted near Veryan" Which is a tiny little village on the Roseland Peninsular. This appears to be people posting in the west of Cornwall, so must be where the exchange that BT are using for most of west cornwall recently
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Journey by Journey / South Western services / Re: Two fatalities on Waterloo lines - 16 Apr 12
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on: April 16, 2012, 20:57:56
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Richmond & Twickenham Times reporting on the first incident. A woman has been killed after she was hit by a train at Richmond station.
The incident happened at just after 4pm today and police said they were not treating it as suspicious.
It is expected to cause huge delays for commuters heading home this evening after affecting all mainline and suburban services.
A passenger who was on the Waterloo to Reading train that hit the woman said it suddenly ground to a halt halfway in the station.
(story continues in link)
Thoughts with all those involved, especially any emergency service people who, by chance, had to attend both. My thoughts are with the driver mainly, must be horrific as a driver to experience that |
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All across the Great Western territory / Introductions and chat / Re: Apple abuse
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on: April 16, 2012, 17:53:07
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I had an iPhone and I loved it, until it fell out of my pocket while cycling across London a couple of weeks back and got run over by a couple of cars before I could retrieve it  I think the "being in touch" thing also depends on who you work for, my lot don't expect me to be reachable every waking hour but I know folks working for other outfitts where it is expected. Fac chance of me being contactable all the time with the lack of phone signal between Taunton and Reading! In my previous employment as a shift manager, for a fast food restaurant, we were expected to be contactable at all hours, as we were named as key holder for the alarm company. Any alarm calls we were expected to be contactable. Think i was contacted once in 5 years. |
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