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« on: November 15, 2008, 20:12:51 » |
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"Train services at Coombe are being disrupted due to safety checks being made in the Coombe station area.Short notice cancellations can be expected. Trains are unable to call at Coombe station. Replacement road transport will be available."
Seems to have been on the general alerts all day - any idea what's up?
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vacman
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2008, 22:54:05 » |
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apparently the platform has dissapeared into the old canal..... but that is third hand information, wouldn't have though too many people will be inconvenienced though! I've never seen a passenger actually get on or off there!
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TerminalJunkie
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2008, 10:17:30 » |
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Isn't Coombe in Oxfordshire? Or is the problem at Coombe Junction?
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2008, 18:32:14 » |
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It's the back of the top (Moorswater) end of the platform that has fallen away. The rest of the platform (and all of the platform as it meets the track) is fine. Hopefully an arrangement can be found where those few people boarding/alighting do so from the door at the south (Looe) end of the train.
We're talking Coombe Junction, Cornwall, by the way.
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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2008, 21:29:11 » |
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I have witnessed two people on seperate occassions use coombe junction in all my trips on the looe line I feel privliged!
Cheers for the info though its been really bugging me what the problem with the station was as its constantly appearing on fgw website.
Wonder how replacement services are operating?? Are they sending a taxi for everytime a train is due! This would be a very expensive cost for absolutly no passengers!! Maybe i should try going to coombe junction and see what happens!! Will i end up at st keyne and have a taxi from st keyne to coombe !!
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vacman
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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2008, 22:23:59 » |
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the Coombe in oxfordshire is spelled combe I think?
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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2008, 22:36:40 » |
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Is there any way of removing the need to reverse at Coombe?
The halt is quite pointless, apart from taking people up a hill.
What is the price of an off peak single Coombe to Liskard?
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2008, 23:00:34 » |
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Most trains stop short of Coombe, though still need to reverse.
Hopefully one day the Moorswater P&R▸ will materialise, at which point it would make sense to give Coombe the decent burial it deserves (as opposed to slipping away, bit by bit).
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2008, 23:32:37 » |
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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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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2008, 01:54:37 » |
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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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Phil
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« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2008, 07:57:40 » |
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And the service they are provided with runs to 3 trains a day each way to and from Liskeard. Which is more than we get at Melksham. I can only imagine there's someone on the Board of FGW▸ lives down that way? |
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« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2008, 09:05:49 » |
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the Coombe in oxfordshire is spelled combe I think?
Ah, thanks. It doesn't help that in these parts when someone says 'Combe' they mean Ilfracombe! |
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« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2008, 09:29:50 » |
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Ah, thanks. It doesn't help that in these parts when someone says 'Combe' they mean Ilfracombe!
We used to refer to Combe Martin as "Combe" when I lived further up the coast in Parracombe - it's a confusing part of the world in some ways! |
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vacman
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« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2008, 11:29:29 » |
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And the service they are provided with runs to 3 trains a day each way to and from Liskeard. Which is more than we get at Melksham. I can only imagine there's someone on the Board of FGW▸ lives down that way? Not really, it's no real feat for the Looe trains to continue up to Coombe hence the three trains that continue up to there, you can probably walk from Coombe to Liskeard as quick as the train! It is a pointless station though! |
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