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Author Topic: Tarka Line - Exeter to Barnstaple - services, passenger numbers, carriages, engineering works, incidents and events  (Read 102487 times)
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« Reply #75 on: March 17, 2011, 19:02:33 »

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I put some of the recurring concerns of regular rail users to Mr Crow to see what plans the firm has to address them.

It would've been nice if the reporter had included them in her article!

Or, perhaps she wasn't allowed to, with FGW (First Great Western)'s responses being 'commercially sensitive' and requested to be off the record.  Wink Grin
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« Reply #76 on: March 17, 2011, 19:45:11 »

Just as an aside, a first name of Joel may be male or female.  Tongue
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« Reply #77 on: March 17, 2011, 19:48:20 »

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Perhaps it would have been a different story if I'd travelled on an older train.
Does he/she realise that the 143 is at least 26 years old?
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« Reply #78 on: March 17, 2011, 20:16:01 »

Just as an aside, a first name of Joel may be male or female.  Tongue

Agreed, for some reason I thought it said Jo.  Embarrassed

A bit of Google research throws up a Joel Cooper, journalist at the North Devon Journal, who's gender is male. According to his Facebook profile.
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« Reply #79 on: March 17, 2011, 22:56:14 »

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It would've been nice if the reporter had included them in her his article!

Or, perhaps she wasn't allowed to, with FGW (First Great Western)'s responses being 'commercially sensitive' and requested to be off the record.  Wink Grin

You need to buy the paper - it was a full-page story, and the part quoted above was roughly a quarter of the page.

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« Reply #80 on: March 17, 2011, 23:03:20 »

Ah-ha. Thanks for that TJ. Wouldn't care to scan and post the rest of the article would you?
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« Reply #81 on: March 17, 2011, 23:06:34 »

I distinctly recall saying that you would need to buy the paper: I only read a copy I found lying around in the pub tonight!  Grin
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« Reply #82 on: March 17, 2011, 23:09:09 »

What? And you didn't think to 'borrow' it?  Wink

No good me buying one. a) doubt I'd find a copy in Bristol and b) my scanner's knackered.
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« Reply #83 on: March 18, 2011, 23:30:33 »

Don't say I never give you nuffink:





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« Reply #84 on: March 18, 2011, 23:37:55 »

Thank you very very much TJ. Have a gold star.  Wink Grin
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« Reply #85 on: March 18, 2011, 23:44:03 »

Aw Sad I didn't see FGW (First Great Western) advertise for press officer - must have missed that one. (not that I would of got it anyway lol)
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« Reply #86 on: March 19, 2011, 00:04:31 »

always winds me up when people say "why dont you put another carriage on", "sorry, my magic wand isn't working".........
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« Reply #87 on: March 19, 2011, 00:06:33 »

Ollie, you might not have got the job, but I bet you'd've known there was little point in issuing a First Class comp ticket for Barnstaple to Exeter!
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« Reply #88 on: March 19, 2011, 00:15:49 »

Ollie, you might not have got the job, but I bet you'd've known there was little point in issuing a First Class comp ticket for Barnstaple to Exeter!
Aha indeed. It's the thought that counts Tongue
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« Reply #89 on: March 19, 2011, 20:57:06 »

On the subject of complimentary tickets I remember in an earlier life when I was a journalist and was doing a story about on train catering on Western Region - as it was then - they sent me an all stations first class pass. It arrived on a Saturday morning ready to use on the Monday but only had an expiry date. I had a great weekend going all over the place - including an overnight train to Penzance. As I recall there were no sleeper berths. When did BR (British Rail(ways))/FGW (First Great Western) stop this overnight service on a Saturday?
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