Truro Station refurbishment and installation of ticket barriers (merged topics)

[whole diary]

[caliwag]

I'm maybe wrong, but I seem to recall an oddity where the GW^▸ (Great Western) and Mid ran parallel (with consequent races) from Cheltenham to Gloucester. One Southbound was up and one down.

Your right of course, in York, you know you're talking to a seasoned railway employee in the pub when they talk about taking the train UP to Doncaster.

[vacman]

Not really sure that's fair. Not everyone knows which is the up side and which is the down - the people of Truro (who might just bump into this thread) would certainly understand car park side, whereas up side would mean absolutely nothing to them, and, I suspect, a good many of the people posting here, come to that.

most people may not know, but railcornwall does!

[The Tall Controller]

If the most guards did their job properly and more were used on busy sections this wouldnt be happening!

[John R]

If the most guards did their job properly and more were used on busy sections this wouldnt be happening!

What? People not knowing their up from their down? 

[devon_metro]

Here's an interesting one:

Exeter St Davids platform 1/3

Trains can depart to London in two directions, so which is up/down? 

[TerminalJunkie]

Trains can depart to London in two directions

Only if their couplings break...

[RichardB]

Here's an interesting one:

Exeter St Davids platform 1/3

Trains can depart to London in two directions, so which is up/down? 

Now, DM, the Up Side at Exeter St Davids is the direction towards Taunton (beimg a GW^▸ (Great Western) station...).

Of course, the Up Waterloo (as indicated on the signal describers) is the direction towards Central and Honiton.

As for Truro, up - to London, down - to Penzance (ie, away from London)

Good to hear there will be ticket gates on the Up Side at Truro.

[signalandtelegraph]

and to clarify "up" is always towards London, even where the geography makes it feel intuitively wrong (not a problem in this part of the world, but maybe more so if you live anywhere north of London).

Unless your up the welsh valleys of course

[Brucey]

and to clarify "up" is always towards London, even where the geography makes it feel intuitively wrong (not a problem in this part of the world, but maybe more so if you live anywhere north of London).

Just to throw a spanner into the works, how would this work if it is possible to go either way to reach London? 

I'm thinking of the West Coastway Line between Southampton and Havant.  If you head towards Southampton, you can go on the South Western Main Line to London.  Towards Havant and you can use the Portsmouth District Line. 

[LiskeardRich]

and to clarify "up" is always towards London, even where the geography makes it feel intuitively wrong (not a problem in this part of the world, but maybe more so if you live anywhere north of London).

Just to throw a spanner into the works, how would this work if it is possible to go either way to reach London? 

I'm thinking of the West Coastway Line between Southampton and Havant.  If you head towards Southampton, you can go on the South Western Main Line to London.  Towards Havant and you can use the Portsmouth District Line. 

see reply 33 above RE^▸ (Religious Education) exeter SD as the waterloo trains go one way and paddingtn trains the other way

[vacman]

If the most guards did their job properly and more were used on busy sections this wouldnt be happening!

It is near impossible to get everyone getting on in west cornwall, particularly on HST^▸ (High Speed Train)'s with the SDO^▸ (Selective Door Opening), same with the Falmouth branch, unfortunately it is most of the locals who are to blame for this with their persistence in not buying tickets from places such as Camborne and Redruth!

[paul7575]

I'm thinking of the West Coastway Line between Southampton and Havant.  If you head towards Southampton, you can go on the South Western Main Line to London.  Towards Havant and you can use the Portsmouth District Line. 

Changes of direction at St Denys and Cosham. Travelling east you leave the Up main at St Denys Jn onto the 'down Netley' as far as Fareham East Jn, [1] then join the 'down Portsmouth' as far as Cosham Jn. From Cosham Jn you take the Up spur towards Farlington and join the Up main towards Havant, (or the Up Brighton if going along the coast).

But 'West Coastway' is a term reserved for SN timetables... 

[1] Just for amusement, Fareham East Jn is at the North end of the station, and Fareham West Jn is at the South end. Anyone know the reason?

Paul

[moonrakerz]

To get really off topic .............

The "Western" end of the Panama Canal is the one that ships heading West enter the canal by..... and vice versa !     

[Nemesis]

and to clarify "up" is always towards London, even where the geography makes it feel intuitively wrong (not a problem in this part of the world, but maybe more so if you live anywhere north of London).

Not necessarily. As touched on previously by Caliwag...

On the old Midland Railway, "Up" was towards Derby.  This can still be found on the (formerly Midland), Charfield line from Westerleigh Junction (Yate area), where the northbound line towards Cheltenham and Brum is the "Up" although it diverges away from the main Badminton line to London.

[smokey]

UP is not always towards London, the Old Great Central  London extension (north of Alyesbury) was UP to Manchester.