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« on: September 18, 2013, 20:47:05 »

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20:33 St Ives to St Erth due 20:47
This train will be cancelled. This is due to an unusually large passenger flow.

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« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2013, 20:55:40 »

St Ives Festival all week with a variety of entertainers all starting at 8pm, so I imagine this may be related.

The Manfreds are performing tonight in a sell out Guildhall, 8pm start

http://www.themanfreds.com/

Also Jonny Cowling is performing at St Ives Theatre tonight with a 8pm start also.

http://www.johnnycowling.com/

I'd imagine the Manfreds attract a large following.
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« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2013, 20:56:16 »

And how does cancelling services help alleviate that unusually large passenger flow?  Huh Roll Eyes
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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2013, 21:03:01 »

And how does cancelling services help alleviate that unusually large passenger flow?  Huh Roll Eyes
The service appears to have been getting progressively later and later on each trip this evening, I assume because of the volume of passengers. It looks like the cancellation might have been to enable the remaining evening departures to be right time (in theory).

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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2013, 21:08:06 »

And how does cancelling services help alleviate that unusually large passenger flow?  Huh Roll Eyes
The service appears to have been getting progressively later and later on each trip this evening, I assume because of the volume of passengers. It looks like the cancellation might have been to enable the remaining evening departures to be right time (in theory).

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Or it got so late it got close to being an round entire trip late, there is no slack on the branch line, with the service end to end sub 15 mins, and a round trip every half hour.
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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2013, 21:11:14 »

That's the point I was making
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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2013, 21:18:33 »

It is particularly important that the later evening service gets back on time as the 21:37 off St Ives provides the connection into the sleeper at St Erth
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2013, 21:34:47 »

Edit - my 200th post!

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« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2013, 22:23:14 »

Just wondering what rolling stock operates on the branch now we moving away from the peak holiday season in west Cornwall?

On my June/July visits it's always been 4 coaches made up of 2 150's stuck together and is always busy.

The every 30 minute schedule is tight from what I've seen - there's rarely more than about 2 minutes of dwell at either end.
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« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2013, 22:30:20 »

Just wondering what rolling stock operates on the branch now we moving away from the peak holiday season in west Cornwall?

On my June/July visits it's always been 4 coaches made up of 2 150's stuck together and is always busy.

Same today - 2x Class 150s.
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« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2013, 23:24:54 »

And the 2x150 were very well loaded this afternoon as well, seems the bit of sunshine attracted everyone to St Ives.
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« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2013, 12:30:30 »

Forgive me if this is old news/dealt with elsewhere but where are they at with plans to extend the St Ives trains through to Penzance? Is the idea to maintain the same frequency and have an extra unit?

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« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2013, 20:56:17 »

It might be preferable so far as FGW (First Great Western) is concerned to distinguish between 150/1s and 150/2s as they have separate Diagrams.
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