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« on: April 19, 2021, 04:47:00 »

Third and final set ... ranging from the absurdly easy to the quite tricky!
One each, please.

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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2021, 18:31:40 »

Come on folks - I've been too busy all day to look at this, so it could be your best chance yet  Grin
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2021, 18:46:26 »

No 2 - Exeter St Davids/Central to London Waterloo? with Restaurant service.
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2021, 19:00:59 »

5. SW to NE services. Fond memories of the Devonian and Cornishman in my student days travelling to and from Birmingham, mainly from Taunton where my Dad dropped me off and picked me up.
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2021, 19:38:34 »

4. I think this must be Rosslare to Fishguard, with connections from Dublin (via Wexford and Waterford), Limerick (via Waterford), and somewhere else I can't identify (Mallow? Cork?); and with onward connections to Paddington.
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2021, 20:26:29 »

Is 1. Twyford to Henley-on-Thames by any chance?
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2021, 21:18:37 »

Is 1. Twyford to Henley-on-Thames by any chance?

4. I think this must be Rosslare to Fishguard, with connections from Dublin (via Wexford and Waterford), Limerick (via Waterford), and somewhere else I can't identify (Mallow? Cork?); and with onward connections to Paddington.

5. SW to NE services. Fond memories of the Devonian and Cornishman in my student days travelling to and from Birmingham, mainly from Taunton where my Dad dropped me off and picked me up.

All those 3 are CORRECT.

No. 2 is not Exeter to Waterloo, though - sorry.
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2021, 22:02:42 »

7. The last two stations look like Reading and Paddington.  As for the preceding stations I hazard a guess at the Cotswold Line.
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2021, 07:40:53 »

7. The last two stations look like Reading and Paddington.  As for the preceding stations I hazard a guess at the Cotswold Line.

Reading and Paddington are involved - but it's not the Cotswold Line for number 7.

Open season ... more than 24 hours gone ... any more ideas?  2, 3, 6 and 7 still unresolved.
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« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2021, 11:19:59 »

3. This looks a strange one.  It's a long route with long durations between stops, and no connections mentioned.  It doesn't look like the complete service over a line, more like some sort of summary table, with the full service on the lines being shown in other tables.
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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2021, 12:11:47 »

3. This looks a strange one.  It's a long route with long durations between stops, and no connections mentioned.  It doesn't look like the complete service over a line, more like some sort of summary table, with the full service on the lines being shown in other tables.

Yes, it is an unusual one.  Unlike all of the other timetables, this one is for Saturdays.  And indeed all the stations and most of the lines have other scheduled passenger trains running over them.
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« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2021, 13:37:48 »

3. This looks a strange one.  It's a long route with long durations between stops, and no connections mentioned.  It doesn't look like the complete service over a line, more like some sort of summary table, with the full service on the lines being shown in other tables.

Yes, it is an unusual one.  Unlike all of the other timetables, this one is for Saturdays.  And indeed all the stations and most of the lines have other scheduled passenger trains running over them.

Complete punt - But is 3 the Melksham line without the Melksham?
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« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2021, 14:19:13 »

Is 7 Birmingham New Street, Leamington, Banbury to London, via Bicester to Marylebone and via Oxford to Paddington?
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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2021, 14:41:38 »

3. This looks a strange one.  It's a long route with long durations between stops, and no connections mentioned.  It doesn't look like the complete service over a line, more like some sort of summary table, with the full service on the lines being shown in other tables.

Yes, it is an unusual one.  Unlike all of the other timetables, this one is for Saturdays.  And indeed all the stations and most of the lines have other scheduled passenger trains running over them.

Complete punt - But is 3 the Melksham line without the Melksham?

Yes ... and here is the complete table:



I will correct my earlier comment - there WERE still timetable public trains over the TransWilts that year ... though I suspect the table shown might have been the only service over the west to north curve at Didcot at the time.

Monday to Friday, and Saturdays from 9th September
Trowbridge to Swindon at 14:55 arriving there at 15:50, with an intermediate call at Chippenham at 15:26 (connection - same train? - Westbury to Trowbridge at 14:15)
Swindon to Westbury at 18:12, arriving there 19:27.  Intermediate calls at Chippenham at (18:34-18:53) and Trowbridge at 19:19

Sundays until 3rd September
Swindon to Weymouth at  10:10 (arriving Weymouth 12:28)
Weymouth to Swindon at  19:44 (arriving Swindon 22:15)

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« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2021, 15:02:05 »

Is 7 Birmingham New Street, Leamington, Banbury to London, via Bicester to Marylebone and via Oxford to Paddington?


Close enough to give it to you ...

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