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« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2016, 11:51:14 » |
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Yes, thanks for posting those brilliant pictures, marky7890.  I'm rather jealous that the platform shelter is so much more luxurious than the perspex shelters we have at Nailsea & Backwell.  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2016, 11:59:31 » |
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Cheekily swap them then, I'm guessing nobody in Cornwall would notice  |
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« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2016, 12:06:58 » |
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I suggest GWR▸ puts a Visitors Book in the shelter |
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« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2016, 14:45:39 » |
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There is even a BT payphone in the shelter, no idea if it actually works, can't imagine it gets any use, given the numbers that use the station.  Interestingly the shelters at St Keyne and Causeland have the same type of phone in them, although Sandplace doesn't. |
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2016, 15:03:25 » |
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Compare Nailsea & Backwell Station 'facilities':   |
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« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2016, 15:11:37 » |
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There is even a BT payphone in the shelter, no idea if it actually works, can't imagine it gets any use, given the numbers that use the station. Interestingly the shelters at St Keyne and Causeland have the same type of phone in them, although Sandplace doesn't. You can blame that on a Wales & West franchise obligation - these phones went in at any station more than 400 metres from a public callbox. Someone has written a ghost story involving the one at Causeland http://www.darklingroom.co.uk/thl2/causeland_station.html |
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« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2016, 15:38:04 » |
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Compare Nailsea & Backwell Station 'facilities':
Passenger Information Displays, a Help Point, CCTV▸ , ticket 'office' in the mornings (sometimes...), TVMs▸ ... Could be worse.  |
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« Reply #22 on: March 27, 2016, 15:44:22 » |
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Oh, I know - but Coombe Junction Halt has a platform shelter with walls which go all the way down to ground level (that would be remarkably welcome when the bleak winter wind is whipping across the embankment at NLS) and a payphone inside the shelter! |
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« Reply #23 on: March 27, 2016, 16:09:20 » |
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That would explain why Sandplace doesn't have one then as there is a red phonebox in the hamlet itself near the Polraen hotel. |
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« Reply #24 on: March 27, 2016, 22:21:34 » |
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Cheekily swap them then, I'm guessing nobody in Cornwall would notice Up to 26 people may? |
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« Reply #25 on: March 27, 2016, 23:06:54 » |
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I wonder if you could be persuaded to do a daily Coombe - Lostwithiel return, as we are rather keen to boost our ticket numbers.....
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2016, 23:36:30 » |
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Now there's a challenge for the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership to take up! |
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« Reply #27 on: March 28, 2016, 00:25:39 » |
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The payphone (including those at St Keyne Wishing Well Halt and Causeland) have been deactivated since customer help points were installed.
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« Reply #28 on: March 28, 2016, 00:49:04 » |
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Thanks for that local knowledge update, Rob T. Purely out of idle curiosity on my part: how many times has the customer help point at Coombe Junction Halt actually been used (rather than misused, for example by children monkeying about)? Secondly, is there any indication on those BT payphones that they have been deactivated? |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
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« Reply #29 on: March 28, 2016, 09:21:55 » |
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Presumably a dead dial tone when picking up the receiver is going to be fairly obvious
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