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« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2017, 18:39:28 » |
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Philwakely. When an XC▸ is majorly delayed through cornwall they terminate that train at Plymouth, but restart it with a a voyager that was due to form a later service to get it on time. The service delayed from cornwall then forms a later Plymouth departure.
I was on a 120 late pnz to glc sometime last year which was canned at Plymouth. The train then went on as a Plymouth to Manchester service. The Manchester train has formed a Plymouth to Glasgow in the Penzance trains on time slot
Yes, I was aware of that arrangement. What I was pointing out though was the lack of joined up thinking in the automated announcement reporting both the cancellation and the replacement as though they are completely separate services |
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Recently I found myself making a connection at Reading station, a station which I am not at all familiar with having previously only passed through it on a train. A few moments before my train arrived, the familiar announcement sounded signifying that I needed to be at the front of the train for the quiet coach; it was only then that I realised that being unfamiliar with the geography of the station, I had no idea which direction the train would be coming from and therefore where the front or rear of the train would be.
At Guildford there are signs on the opposite platforms roof that say "Portsmouth End" and "London End" with arrows pointing in those directions. Do any other stations do that? |
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« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2017, 20:39:44 » |
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Recently I found myself making a connection at Reading station, a station which I am not at all familiar with having previously only passed through it on a train. A few moments before my train arrived, the familiar announcement sounded signifying that I needed to be at the front of the train for the quiet coach; it was only then that I realised that being unfamiliar with the geography of the station, I had no idea which direction the train would be coming from and therefore where the front or rear of the train would be.
At Guildford there are signs on the opposite platforms roof that say "Portsmouth End" and "London End" with arrows pointing in those directions. Do any other stations do that? Similar signs exist at Perranwell. A request stop on the Falmouth branchline. |
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All posts are my own personal believes, opinions and understandings!
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« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2017, 21:32:16 » |
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At Guildford there are signs on the opposite platforms roof that say "Portsmouth End" and "London End" with arrows pointing in those directions. Do any other stations do that?
I think that happened in quite a few places, where someone painted it there - often a long time ago, and mostly long gone. The current standard signage doesn't include anything of the kind, so, as it's not in the catalogue no-one can order it. |
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« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2017, 13:09:23 » |
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Similar signs exist at Perranwell. A request stop on the Falmouth branchline.
That Sign has now gone. Edit note: Quote marks fixed, for clarity. CfN. |
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« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2017, 15:39:13 » |
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Possibly not this topic but on the News Quiz Radio 4 one of the panellists read out a clipping of on train announcement the jist of which was:.
" For those passengers wishing to alight at Slough we've just passed Slough!!
Not sure when it was don't recall anything about it locally.
Move to Lighter Side if more appropriate.
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« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2017, 20:31:16 » |
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To me the worst is no, wrong or misleading information, although I think that airports are far worse than railway
stations.
Returning from Oxford last Monday, I went for the 1431 but it was (and continued to be) indicated as "delayed". An up turbo rolled in, so I asked the three staff on the barrier was this the 31. Don't know was the reply so I tried the information desk, similar reply followed by well meant but long 'phone call to find out. Finally (at 1434) we guessed that it was, the 37 stopper being indicated as next, the anonymous turbo having departed, although still "delayed"!. It seems that there is a duty announcer at Oxford, either under Trappist vows or as in the dark as we were. The embarrassed staff were of course exemplary in apologising etc.
I wonder whether GWR▸ is really up to handling electric trains.
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« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2017, 21:07:29 » |
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Why did nobody (including the station staff) ask the train staff? They at least should know!
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« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2017, 22:28:38 » |
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Probably because of the barrier.
Common sense should have told me to wait on the platform and ask the guard, as you say. The concourse is more inviting though.
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« Reply #24 on: January 15, 2017, 10:58:13 » |
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If it was a turbo would there have been been a Guard?
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« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2017, 17:55:42 » |
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On a related issue, my local First bus in Bath takes a circular route, leaving the Bus Station to go up the hill to Southdown and then return back down to the Bus Station. The screens at the bus stops now say Bus Station as the destination for those buses going uphill (presumably because that is the ultimate destination), which will confuse anyone who doesn't regularly use the service.
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« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2017, 20:17:05 » |
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If you see something unusual on our trains or stations today, please contact a member of staff or a British Transport Police Officer. Me: Officer, the 0803 this morning left at 0803. If that's not unusual, I don't know what is. My solicitor suggests that pleading guilty to "Wasting Police Time" is the most appropriate course of action. |
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« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2017, 20:25:54 » |
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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 #28 on: January 16, 2017, 12:11:13 » |
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On many platforms, you should be able to tell where the front of the train will be because there will be a stop-marker board (either an S or something like 2-car stop, 3-car stop etc.); unless the platform is used bi-directionally that should help.
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Don't DOO▸ it, keep the guard (but it probably wouldn't be a bad idea if the driver unlocked the doors on arrival at calling points).
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« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2017, 09:34:54 » |
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I noticed the other day it looks like a load of additional screens are being installed on the transfer deck at Reading.
Not additional - the existing screens, and the information kiosk below them, have been repositioned. That brings them closer to the direction you face having come up from the main entrance, but that's not the reason. They had to move to make way for - more retail! Another unit (no sign of what) is being built in that corner. On a slightly related subject, work on the Three Guineas has now moved to downstairs and the bar itself. The heavier work before Christmas was on the structure and the lantern, no doubt to help the poor old thing get over having the rest of the station demolished and rebuilt around it. |
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