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« Reply #780 on: January 20, 2025, 10:40:51 »
The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
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« Reply #781 on: January 20, 2025, 14:38:23 »
Today's Guardian has a piece at https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/21/the-kindness-of-strangers-dazed-confused-and-far-from-home-a-train-worker-offered-me-a-place-to-stay with a well-travelled M7 class tank loco.
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« Reply #782 on: January 20, 2025, 15:01:16 »
Quote from: Witham Bobby on January 20, 2025, 10:40:51
The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
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« Reply #783 on: January 20, 2025, 15:40:56 »
Quote from: rogerw on January 20, 2025, 15:01:16
Quote from: Witham Bobby on January 20, 2025, 10:40:51
The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
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It's not my sense of adventure that's the problem.  More concerned about how I could eat anything en-route and hang-on to it
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« Reply #784 on: February 06, 2025, 17:47:45 »
Quote from: rogerw on January 20, 2025, 15:01:16
Quote from: Witham Bobby on January 20, 2025, 10:40:51
The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
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I think he's more worried about his sense of smell.
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« Reply #785 on: February 07, 2025, 11:21:06 »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g949m4g41o

The chap reported on the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) having comms issues at Nantes station is a bit lost, they’ve used a photo of Tynemouth on the Tyne Wear Metro…  Image not available to guests
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« Reply #786 on: April 09, 2025, 14:48:11 »
This came up on the MSN newsfeed on my laptop- - and no, said storm was not going to affect anywhere north of Spain!
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« Reply #787 on: April 18, 2025, 15:54:30 »
Quote from: Bob_Blakey on April 18, 2025, 09:17:40
You have to love the stock image use to illustrate the story though!

More shoddy journalism.  Image not available to guests

Yet again, historic pictures of Bristol Temple Meads being used to 'illustrate' any current news story about anywhere on the railways in the south of England.

How about being a professional journalist, and find this picture on the internet to illustrate your story, for example?

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« Reply #788 on: June 10, 2025, 07:42:19 »
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/live-liskeard-looe-train-passengers-10247705

I'm WEaling from the shock of how far from Looe this is!
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« Reply #789 on: June 28, 2025, 15:37:09 »
Daily Express

I came across the story when looking at "Samsung News" on my mobile ... Somewhat rashly, it included a stock "Getty Image" photo taken outside a ScotRail carriage and looking through the window to the interior where a woman and two men are innocently seated. (I can't find that particular image on the Getty website.)
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« Reply #790 on: July 20, 2025, 18:21:55 »
"Trains between London Waterloo and Reading are expected to be disrupted all day."

(Most of the article is probably behind a paywall, but it includes a stock photo of a GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) train.)
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« Reply #791 on: July 20, 2025, 18:31:35 »
Quote from: Marlburian on July 20, 2025, 18:21:55
"Trains between London Waterloo and Reading are expected to be disrupted all day."

(Most of the article is probably behind a paywall, but it includes a stock photo of a GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) train.)

Yes, it's this one, at Pontyclun, Wales, in 2022:  https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/high-speed-train-operated-by-great-western-railway-gm1387145770-445163842  Image not available to guests
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) 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.

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« Reply #792 on: August 05, 2025, 14:01:28 »
DevonAir's Facebook post about the emergency timetable on the Waterloo - Exeter line amused me. 

https://ibb.co/kV0TQXqc
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« Reply #793 on: August 08, 2025, 07:56:40 »
https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/36171415/english-village-train-station-bristol-charfield/

Article about Charfield  ... picture looks to me like an old one of Oldfield Park taken in the days that HSTs▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) were blue.  But to be fair, what could / should The Sun have used to illustrate the story?
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« Reply #794 on: August 08, 2025, 13:51:02 »
Quote from: grahame on August 08, 2025, 07:56:40
https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/36171415/english-village-train-station-bristol-charfield/

Article about Charfield  ... picture looks to me like an old one of Oldfield Park taken in the days that HSTs▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) were blue.  But to be fair, what could / should The Sun have used to illustrate the story?

Looks like Oldfield Park to me too, Graham.
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