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« Reply #75 on: July 20, 2009, 01:52:49 » |
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I have successfully used the shaver point in the berths to power my laptop! You of course need a 3 pin to 2 pin adaptor.
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« Reply #76 on: July 20, 2009, 01:54:26 » |
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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 #77 on: July 20, 2009, 09:14:05 » |
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There are power sockets in the lounge car.
If you don't want your phoen to go flat whilst you are asleep turn it off. A phone in a moving vehicle will run down much faster than one left at home. Everytime it moves from one "cell" to another, it starts sending out quite high power tranmissions to try an attract the attention of another cell and this kills the battery life/.
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« Reply #78 on: June 22, 2010, 00:03:51 » |
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Don't think this has been posted elsewhere, so apologies if it has. Demand for sleeper berths is so strong that FGW▸ is adding a fourth sleeper coach to the train every night with a fifth coach on the Friday train to Penzance and the Sunday night return working, which probably means there's not much left by way of spare sleeper coaches in FGW's fleet. Time for a raid on Long Marston? FGW news item: Train operator First Great Western has increased the number of beds on its Night Riviera Sleeper trains, which operate between London Paddington and Penzance, by popular demand.
Business along the route is now doing so well that the number of sleeping cars has been increased from three to four every night, meaning a train can now sleep up to 60 customers in either direction, seeing the service likened to a mobile hotel. Key weekend trains on Friday night from London and Sunday night from Cornwall have even more beds, sleeping up to 75 customers.
The Night Riviera operates every Sunday to Friday, with one train running in either direction and customers are offered a hot breakfast to set them up for the day. With on-demand televisions in all single berths, First Great Western^s Regional Manager for the West of England, Julian Crow, thinks that train really is the best way to travel.
Julian added: ^We^re pleased with the continuing increase in popularity of our Night Riviera Sleeper trains and happy to announce these extra beds each night to meet the growing demand.
^This growing popularity shows how effective the sleeper service really is for travel between Cornwall and London, enabli ng customers to sleep away the miles and arrive at their destinations refreshed and ready to face the day. ^ |
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« Reply #79 on: June 22, 2010, 08:28:11 » |
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Are there any sleepers in Long Marston?
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« Reply #80 on: June 22, 2010, 10:06:02 » |
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I think there were about half-a-dozen stored there last year. If anyone wants a look round Long Marston, there will be an open day on September 12. For more info, see the Diary section.
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« Reply #81 on: June 22, 2010, 14:14:03 » |
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Are there any sleepers in Long Marston?
I should think so. Wooden ones, concrete ones, metal ones. Maybe even some of those new-fangled ones made from recycled plastic!!    |
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« Reply #82 on: June 22, 2010, 15:20:25 » |
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Can't remember if there are any sleepers stored at Long Marston off hand, but there should certainly be plenty of mk 3 sleepers spare somewhere. BR▸ built a fairly large number just before lots of sleeper services were permanently withdrawn, so there should still be plenty around that have barely turned a wheel in service. That's if they haven't all been snapped up yet by heritage railways for use as dormitory accommodation, which many of them have.
It's great to know that demand is so strong for the Night Riviera though, especially "in this economy" (hate that phrase!). Hopefully this bodes well for its future. Makes the threats to remove it when the franchise was renewed in 2006 look rather silly now.
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« Reply #83 on: June 22, 2010, 15:25:33 » |
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this is good news considering a couple of years ago there was large mention of the service being scrapped,
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« Reply #84 on: June 22, 2010, 15:37:58 » |
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Probably more to do with the cost of petrol and the cost of flights
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Ditched former sig - now I need to think of something amusing - brain hurts -I'll steal from the master himself - Einstein:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
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« Reply #85 on: June 22, 2010, 16:10:42 » |
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« Reply #86 on: June 22, 2010, 23:27:03 » |
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Can't remember if there are any sleepers stored at Long Marston off hand, but there should certainly be plenty of mk 3 sleepers spare somewhere. Beyond the ones in traffic with FGW▸ and ScotRail, they're really aren't that many left that haven't been disposed of to preserved railways, which is why I mentioned Long Marston and there are a number still listed in store there by the ABRail database http://abrail.co.uk/lhcspassdetail.htm and The Junction http://www.thejunction.org.uk/flist_lhs_3.htmlThis one was photographed at the June 2009 Long Marston open day http://www.rollingstock.fotopic.net/p58806839.htmlThe ones listed at Moreton-in-Marsh have probably been bashed about rather a lot by firefighters by now so I doubt they will turn a wheel again. |
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« Reply #87 on: June 29, 2010, 17:50:25 » |
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Probably more to do with the cost of petrol and the cost of flights
Also the lack of improvement in daytime journey times over 30 odd years,indeed longer journey times in many cases on FGW▸ have and will ensure the survival of the sleeper for many years to come I suspect.It is unlikely EVER that the route to Penzance will ever rival the daytime journey time improvements seen in the last few decades on the East and West coast routes. |
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« Reply #89 on: June 30, 2010, 18:32:11 » |
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its not just that, time is money and if you can get where you need to while your asleep then why not
A good quote at a Save Our Sleeper meeting I heard back in 2005, My young Daughter gets on (the train) at Penzance, I'll get her a juice from the Bar and by Redruth she is in-bed asleep and wont wake till London. To her that's 307 plus miles in less than half an hour. THAT'S QUICK!!!!!! |
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