Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
 Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 10:15 14 May 2025
 
- Airbnb offers private chefs and massages as it revamps app
- Is the US finally on track to build a high-speed rail network?
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]		 today - West Wiltshire RUG
17/05/25 - Summer Timetable Starts
18/05/25 - Portishead RNLI 10 anniversary
23/05/25 - Go-op Crowd Funding closes

On this day
14th May (1951)
first Tal-y-llyn trains run under preservation (link)
Train RunningCancelled
10:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central
Additional 10:22 Swansea to London Paddington
10:24 Reading to Gatwick Airport
11:59 Gatwick Airport to Reading
12:50 Cardiff Central to London Paddington
Short Run
06:48 London Paddington to Carmarthen
09:21 Carmarthen to London Paddington
•
PollsThere are no open or recent polls
•
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
•
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
•
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
•
Train companiesSelect from:
GWR
SWR
XC
Chiltern
TfL
TfW
WMR
Southern
• Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street
May 14, 2025, 10:26:19 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[265] Champion Reflections
[103] Heart of Wessex (from Melksham) - should I renew my railcard f...
[32] And on a hot summer's evening ...
[20] [otd] 13th May (1985) - Melksham Station re-opened
[15] Go-Op Cooperative - proposals for additional rail services
[13] Inaugural nonstop run Kings Cross to Edinburgh - 1st May 1928
 
News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Great Western Coffee Shop > Sideshoots - associated subjects > The Lighter Side > Where was Finn today, 26th February 2019?
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Where was Finn today, 26th February 2019?  (Read 2911 times)
JayMac
Data Manager
Hero Member
******
Posts: 19312



View Profile
« on: February 26, 2019, 21:31:08 »
Bashing some new (to Finn) rolling stock.
Logged
"Good news for regular users of Euston Station in London! One day they will die. Then they won't have to go to Euston Station ever again." - David Mitchell
Bmblbzzz
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 4256


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2019, 23:18:05 »
Looks like a bus with sideways seats, the ones I always wanted to sit in as a kid (if there wasn't an upstairs) and my mum never did.
Logged
Waiting at Pilning for the midnight sleeper to Prague.
JayMac
Data Manager
Hero Member
******
Posts: 19312



View Profile
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2019, 23:29:34 »
Not a bus, sorry.
Logged
"Good news for regular users of Euston Station in London! One day they will die. Then they won't have to go to Euston Station ever again." - David Mitchell
Western Pathfinder
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1660



View Profile
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2019, 23:31:12 »
IOW by any chance ?..
Logged
JayMac
Data Manager
Hero Member
******
Posts: 19312



View Profile
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2019, 00:11:53 »
Quote from: Western Pathfinder on February 26, 2019, 23:31:12
IOW by any chance ?..

Yes indeed.

A day where Finn experienced heavy rail, bus, hovercraft and 1938 tube stock. And the new (to me) car. None of them fazed him.

More pictures of our day in Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight to come...
Logged
"Good news for regular users of Euston Station in London! One day they will die. Then they won't have to go to Euston Station ever again." - David Mitchell
bradshaw
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 1590



View Profile
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2019, 10:53:38 »

Due for replacement soon; the SWR» (South Western Railway - about) report into the future service is running late.

However:
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/class-230-trains-could-be-on-their-way-to-the-isle-of-wight/
Logged
rogerw
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1398



View Profile
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2019, 11:35:09 »
Sitting somewhere in DfT» (Department for Transport - about)
Logged
I like to travel.  It lets me feel I'm getting somewhere.
bradshaw
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 1590



View Profile
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2019, 12:24:44 »
Yes, knew I had seen it somewhere before

https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/coming-up-in-the-february-issue-of-the-rm-dft-decision-on-island-line-future-deferred-for-three-months/
Logged
JayMac
Data Manager
Hero Member
******
Posts: 19312



View Profile
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2019, 20:18:35 »
Our overseas trip.

The day started at Fratton station after a overnight stay nearby. I'd bought a Day Return from Fratton to Shanklin via Hovertravel. A short train ride to Portsmouth and Southsea, then the Hoverbus to Southsea Hovertravel terminal. Some time to kill here so Finn had a run on Southsea Common. Then to the hovercra ft. My first flight on the Griffon 12000TD craft introduced in 2017. Larger and nicer inside than the previous AP1-88s, although no longer with forward facing windows in the passenger compartment. Finn was not at all fazed by the skim across the Solent.

On the island we took the train from Ryde Esplanade to Brading. where we stopped for lunch in The Bugle Inn. Highly recommended. I had bangers and mash with one sausage donated to Finn!

After lunch it was back to Brading station, then down to the end of the line at Shanklin. A quick photo stop then straight back to Ryde.

Back at the Hovertravel terminal I was able to watch and film some pilot training with the second of the Griffons. They were taking the craft out to the end of the pier then returning.

Back on the service craft for the return to the mainland, the bus to Portsmouth Harbour and then train back to Fratton.

A grand day out in glorious unseasonal February weather.

Waiting at Southsea Hovertravel terminal.


The old signal box at Brading station.


Finn admiring the 1938 stock at Shanklin.


Takeoff and landing at Ryde Hovertravel terminal.


Logged
"Good news for regular users of Euston Station in London! One day they will die. Then they won't have to go to Euston Station ever again." - David Mitchell
JayMac
Data Manager
Hero Member
******
Posts: 19312



View Profile
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2019, 21:20:42 »
As a postscript.

Having the means and finances to get out and about again, after nearly a year of very straitened circumstances, is doing wonders for my disposition.

There were some very dark days in that period, and fighting the powers that be took its tool. I don't pretend for one moment that my mental health is now all fine and dandy, but having the means to get out and explore this great land is certainly helping.
Logged
"Good news for regular users of Euston Station in London! One day they will die. Then they won't have to go to Euston Station ever again." - David Mitchell
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 44070



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2019, 21:41:33 »
Quote from: bignosemac on February 28, 2019, 20:18:35
Finn admiring the 1938 stock at Shanklin.


I was seeing pictures of the last central London run of TfL» (Transport for London - about)'s 1938 tube set the other day - apparently reksignalling there will stop it running there.  With the IoW units up for retirement soon ... I wonder if any will find any operational (preserved) future.  How are the tubes what were on Alderney doing?

Quote from: bignosemac on February 28, 2019, 21:20:42
... having the means to get out and explore this great land is certainly helping.

Must catch up.   But then we're planning that.  And was good to see you in Westbury.
Logged
Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules via admin@railcustomer.info. Full legal statement (here).

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page