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1  All across the Great Western territory / Smoke and Mirrors / Re: Fortuitous connections ... and an App which fails to offer the best journey on: April 20, 2025, 20:08:06

* When a train is cancelled, the App should offer alternative which are still running and fits within the normal interchange criteria

Have you tried the National Rail App? When a journey is known to be disrupted on one or more legs, the NR» (Network Rail - home page) app has offered alternatives routes / times to me.
2  Journey by Journey / Thames Valley Branches / Re: A trip on GWR's Battery Electric Train - 17/12/2024 on: April 09, 2025, 00:35:11
GWR (Great Western Railway) press release

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Special test event provides valuable insight for Great Western Railway’s fast-charge battery trial

A special test event saw 250 volunteers board Great Western Railway’s battery train to help provide valuable insight for its industry-leading trial.

The ‘High Passenger Load’ operation tested energy consumption and will form part of findings to be fed back to the Department for Transport (DfT» (Department for Transport - about)).

Part of the "Project Churchill" campaign perhaps?

[cough] ChurchwardWink

Perhaps. Surrey County Council and Gatwick Airport executives have been pictured with Mark Hopwood next to a 230.
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/commitment-further-improve-guildford-gatwick-31350812

3  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: WH Smith name to disappear from high street but retained at stations on: March 28, 2025, 22:10:28
In my youth, WHSmith was where I used to go to buy books, records, cassette tapes, school stationery and just standing around reading their magazines. I have no need for any of that now. As MarkA mentioned they are so expensive now. To me, they have lost their relevance being undercut by other retailers. I will not mourn their demise like I did with Woolworths & Wilko.

Except they're not actually going anywhere. Just being bought out and renamed. I'm not sure what the new buyer sees in the stores. Maybe we'll find them all converted to something else in a year or two.
4  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025 on: March 05, 2025, 19:44:47
The Evening Standard reported that
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Some trains were re-routed to London Waterloo.

Did that really happen?
5  All across the Great Western territory / Introductions and chat / Re: How many countries have you visited? Used a train in? on: February 15, 2025, 16:00:04
12 countries for me and of those I have used the train in at least 4 of them.
6  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Labour pledges to make Sunday trains as reliable as weekday services on: January 23, 2025, 19:39:57
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Sunday train services will be as reliable as those on weekdays under plans to renationalise the railways, the new transport secretary will claim in a keynote speech on Monday.

So no engineering works on future Sundays then?  Grin
7  Sideshoots - associated subjects / News, Help and Assistance / Re: Browsers - what are you running? Are you seeing this? on: December 29, 2024, 10:34:59
Edge for me
8  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ17 - Correcting the subtitling, GWR on: December 17, 2024, 20:01:07
I think Payton was the actor who played "Gloria" in "It Ain't Half Hot Mum", now banished form our screens for making fun of peoples' differences.

Not banned. It's on tonight and most nights on That's TV (Thames Valley, or TeleVision, depending on context) 2 on Freeview.
9  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ13 - On Track on: December 13, 2024, 22:42:36
1. Looks like braille instructions for blind train drivers
10  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing discussion on: December 13, 2024, 22:41:09
Well - I know that wasn't addressed to me, but I think I would start off by working out where we want to be in 20 years, and would then look to motivate all sectors involved - at all levels to get us there with their ownership of the project from grass roots level up.  The problem is getting the right people with the right authority in the room ... there are some ideas which should form part of a solution which results in shocked responses when you suggest them.

I would hope that in 20 years time many / most of the train crew for who Sunday is not part of the working week and choose not to work overtime on this day will have either been offered an incentive to change their contract or will have retired and been replaced with new drivers whose shifts include Sundays.

I would also hope that not being able to drive certain routes because you haven't signed that route will be a thing of the past thanks to a rail equivalent of GPS which would notify you in advance of where the signals are, when to start braking for the next station etc.
11  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ11 - trivia questions in our region on: December 11, 2024, 20:18:16
**Three GWR (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train:

Banbury, Basingstoke and Gatwick Airport. - Although I guess technically they are not GWR stations but stations GWR use and you can leave them in other directions with other TOC (Train Operating Company)'s. Maybe need to think again Wink

Ah, I was going to say Redhill but that's a Southern station.
12  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / First re-enter the London bus market on: December 10, 2024, 22:54:50
First are returning to London after 10 years away.

https://www.route-one.net/bus/firstgroup-agrees-to-purchase-ratp-dev-transit-london-business/
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FirstGroup is set to return to the Transport for London (TfL» (Transport for London - about)) contracted bus market after reaching a binding agreement to purchase of RATP Dev Transit London and its subsidiaries London United Busways, London Sovereign and London Transit for £90 million.

Completion is expected in H1 2025 following approval from current ultimate owner the French government. The deal will bring around 12% of the TfL red bus market along with 10 depots in central and west London, 982 buses – of which a third are battery-electric – and in the region of 3,700 staff.
13  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ09 - 52 places you may have visited - how many? on: December 09, 2024, 19:09:01

I'll claim the lowest score of anyone.  I've visited only three places: Bucharest (airport), Lecce (outstanding architecture and so few tourists), and Wick (along with Thurso, on a damp day trip by train from Inverness).

Err, not quite. I score a lowly one (Madrid by plane) though I may have been to Minehead as a child.
14  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Taking Train Operation into public ownership - Govt planning from 4.12.2024 on: December 04, 2024, 19:38:12
I'm ... looking to get a list of where we stand on all the TOCs (Train Operating Company) and reverts to nationalisation:

2025 Abellio East Anglia Limited 2021 rail contract
tba  Abellio East Midlands Limited 2022 rail contract

Not called Abellio anymore. I believe a management buy out earlier this year created Transport UK (United Kingdom). However this page at https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/about-us/company-information refers to both Abellio East Anglia Limited and Transport UK East Anglia Limited
15  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Bridge bash statistics, from Network Rail - November 2024 on: November 22, 2024, 19:56:53
I don't understand why there isn't a gantry before these bridges with something dangling on a rope that would hit the top of the vehicle alerting the driver before they hit the bridge.
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