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271  Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Cornish mainline closure 20th-24th October on: October 05, 2007, 21:49:40
Of note is Saturday/Sunday trains run Penzance to St.Austell. Mon/Tue/Wed is Penzance to Bodmin. During this period Sat/Mon/Tue/Wed the NQY▸ (Newquay (Station)) branch is also covered by road transport....
272  Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Pure Luxury on: October 05, 2007, 21:48:37
Service was as booked today (158+153), for the second time this week.............
273  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: First Great Western December 2007 Timetable Now Online on: October 03, 2007, 12:49:00
Quote from: grahame on October 02, 2007, 22:26:49

Final note on recovery allowances - is it my imagination, or do such allowances tend to congregate between the last intermediate stop of a train and its final terminus?  And if they do, would that be for operational reasons, or to help more trains show up as "arrived on time" in the statistics.  One comes to realise just how much slack/recovery is in some schedules when you see a train that started a 2 hour journey 16 minutes late but arrived at the end on time - as I saw on a Westbury to Cheltenham via Swindon the other day.

Extra minutes on the end of a schedule has been common for years. Check out Penzance to St.Erth timings compared with St.Erth to Penzance, especially on the longer distance services. As the lateness of a service is measured just at its destination its just a scam to get more services arriving within 10 minutes late if you ask me!!

As for Coombe on the Looe branch.... Why? Must be the least used station in the south west totally pointless.....
274  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Rail Tickets 'To Be Made Simpler' on: October 03, 2007, 10:58:15
Nothing ever get more simple. Remember the removal of the Super Saver to simplify the fares structure?? Then a few months later we get a new 'Business Saver' to go with the Saver. Back to square one.
275  Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Falmouth Branch line on: October 03, 2007, 10:54:03
Presumably due to the failure of 150233 on the previous days last Newquay trip....
276  Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Gunnislake Line - engineering, cancellations, history, etc. (merged topics) on: October 03, 2007, 10:53:31
The Gunnislake Branch is shut from Monday 8th October until 16:00 on Friday 12th. This is for essential engineering works. Will be watching very carefully to see just what tree is actually trimmed back....
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