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« on: January 01, 2008, 21:11:04 »

It might be FGW (First Great Western) longest journey, 9 hours down Sunday night/Monday Morning but talking to a Sleeper Host one night, He told me from Exeter St David's to London Paddington, He's known the Sleeper to take 16 different routes.

Try naming them all, and via Westbury or Westbury Avoiding Line counts as the same route.
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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2008, 21:45:08 »

It used to go Taunton-BTM (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI))-Bath-Reading-London
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« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2008, 21:54:21 »

Correct: Thats one down, 15 to go. That is one of the more common routes it can take.
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« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2008, 22:19:16 »

Exeter-Taunton-Bristol TM(resolve)-Bristol Parkway-Swindon-Reading-London
Exeter-Taunton-Bristol TM-Bath Spa-Swindon-Reading-London
Exeter-Taunton-Bristol TM-Bath Spa-Trowbridge-Reading-London
Exeter-Taunton-Weston Super Mare-Bristol TM-Bristol Parkway-Swindon-Reading-London
Exeter-Taunton-Weston Super Mare-Bristol TM-Bath Spa-Swindon-Reading-London
Exeter-Taunton-Weston Super Mare-Bristol TM-Bath Spa-Trowbridge-Reading-London
Exeter-Taunton-Westbury-Reading-London
Exeter-Taunton-Westbury-Melksham-Reading-London
Exeter-Taunton-Frome-Westbury-Reading-London
Exeter-Taunton-Frome-Westbury-Melksham-Reading-London
Exeter-Yeovil-Castle Cary-Frome-Westbury-Reading-London
Exeter-Yeovil-Castle Cary-Westbury-London
Exeter-Yeovil-Castle Cary-Westbury-Melksham-Reading-London
Exeter-Yeovil-Castle Cary-Frome-Westbury-London
Exeter-Yeovil-Castle Cary-Frome-Westbury-Melksham-Reading-London
Exeter-Yeovil-Salisbury-Basingstoke-Reading-London
London-Reading-Bath-Bristol-Bath-Westbury-Taunton-Exeter
London-Reading-Bath-Bristol-Bath-Westbury-Castle Cary-Yeovil-Exeter
Service used to run to London Waterloo for a few years before returning to Paddington
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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2008, 22:36:09 »

Normal routing to avoid overnight engineering work:
1. Exeter, Taunton, Bristol TM(resolve), Bath, Swindon, Reading
2. Exeter, Taunton, Bristol TM, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading
3. Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Bath, Newbury, Reading
4. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury / Westbury avoider, Newbury, Reading
5. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Melksham, Swindon, Reading
6. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury / Westbury avoider, Newbury, Reading
7. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury, Melksham, Swindon, Reading

Houston, we have a problem
8. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Bath, Bristol TM (loco onto other end of stock), Bath, Chippenham, Swindon, Reading
9. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury , Bath, Bristol TM (loco onto other end of stock), Bath, Chippenham, Swindon, Reading
10. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Bath, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading
11. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury , Bath, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading
12. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Melksham, Chippenham, Bristol TM (loco onto other end of stock), Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading
13. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Melksham, Chippenham, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading
14. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury , Melksham, Chippenham, Bristol TM (loco onto other end of stock), Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading
15. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury , Melksham, Chippenham, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading

All the above should be possible without having to provide additional Traincrew for route knowledge. At one stage it would also have been possible to send the train into London Waterloo rather than Paddington via either Acton or from Reading.

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« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2008, 22:58:52 »

Say Timmer and Redskin 125, you sure covered that little lot, and came up with 1 or 2 that I didn't have, I didn't touch on Waterloo because the Sleeper host I spoke with wasn't on the Job when the Sleeper went to Waterloo.
However the only route you didn't get was,

Exeter-BTM (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI))-Gloucester (run round) Kemble-Swindon-Reading-London Padd.

And No don't ask me when the Sleeper went to Gloucester he didn't tell me.

And as a By the Way My Dad used to be a Driver and he once worked a Anglo-Scottish sleeper into St Prancras instead of Euston arriving about 8.30 instead of 6.30, sorry correction arriving 20.30 instead of 06.30 14 hours down now that's what you call late!
Mind I'm sure FGW (First Great Western) could match that, if they put there mind to it.
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« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2008, 10:34:48 »

It certainly isn't permitted to go via Basingstoke these days!
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« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2008, 15:20:08 »

It certainly isn't permitted to go via Basingstoke these days!

Why NOT?
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« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2008, 15:29:11 »

How many High Speed crew sign that route then?
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« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2008, 16:17:57 »



Got one of theese have you Smokey??  Grin
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« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2008, 16:23:47 »

How many High Speed crew sign that route then?

Pilot Working?

Just a case of route knowledge then.
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« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2008, 16:25:55 »



Got one of theese have you Smokey??  Grin

oooooo, you been naughty and stealing things?

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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2008, 16:27:13 »



Got one of theese have you Smokey??  Grin

oooooo, you been naughty and stealing things?



Just borrowing it, they are welcome to it back  Shocked
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« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2008, 17:35:45 »

I have ten of those- none sleeper- all different.
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« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2008, 18:36:56 »

I have ten of those- none sleeper- all different.

The reason I posted it was its from the sleeper  Grin  I have stacks of the things, was going through them this afternoon, found some interesting destinations/stopping patterns  Shocked
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