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« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2016, 09:23:37 »
Quote from: Oxonhutch on October 23, 2016, 09:03:56
1: Denham Golf Club

Now there's a station I've never been to!

Sorry - it isn't, not to say that there isn't a similar sign there!
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« Reply #16 on: October 23, 2016, 10:31:42 »
2.  Swindon?
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« Reply #17 on: October 23, 2016, 10:49:42 »
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You mean that the second train is timed before the first, and both are on time? I've seen odder things than that on platform CISs▸ (Customer Information System).

That's what I noticed ... it seemed that time travel had reached Gloucestershire, and I wondered if it related to the trains being in a different order when they passed through Standish Junction.

At 9:16, neither train had reached Standish - but both were past Westerleigh, and of course running in reverse order as only the GW» (Great Western - used as an abbreviation for the area / lines under the Great Western franchise, as opposed to FGW which includes "First", the company operating them too. For tickets - about) service is going to rub noses with Gloucester. 

But surely the CIS doesn't just react dumbly to that earlier section of same-track running? I imagine that the times predicted are based on timetable plus notified delay upstream, which allows for different travel times. For trains that share a platform the CIS needs to know something about what signalling is going to do when they merge (or could overtake). In the absence of route-setting that comes down to what the signaller is minded to do, so maybe it needs some kind of feed in from the signalling/ers.

Where trains are delayed, and in effect jockeying for position, you do see the CIS flip between orders (and I remember seeing that at Amersfoort too). I think the switching must be slugged, to prevent the display changing too fast. So perhaps this one was reacting to a misleading input in the past?
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« Reply #18 on: October 23, 2016, 11:32:48 »
Quote from: John R on October 23, 2016, 10:31:42
2.  Swindon?

Yes, it is.

With the Filton area closed for a weekend, CrossCountry services were diverted via Swindon - that's the "Edinburgh" train on the display.     I was headed north and caught that train, which provided a superb demonstration of the sort of thing that's possible from this huge town (near-City) to The Midlands and North. Normally, its a slow old slog ...
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« Reply #19 on: October 23, 2016, 13:15:29 »
Quote from: richwarwicker on October 22, 2016, 22:18:21
Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on October 22, 2016, 22:12:49
5.  Taunton.  Roll Eyes

The pigeons have the right idea for what should be done over Taunton   Cheesy

Worse in Bridgwater. The pigeons fly upside down there. It isn't worth s******g on.
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« Reply #20 on: October 23, 2016, 13:58:21 »
2 - Reading?
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« Reply #21 on: October 23, 2016, 15:07:38 »
Quote from: ChrisB on October 23, 2016, 13:58:21
2 - Reading?

Sorry - already identified by John R as Swindon but I hadn't got back to editing the original post to put that answer in!
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« Reply #22 on: October 23, 2016, 17:51:39 »
4. Marsden?
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« Reply #23 on: October 23, 2016, 19:14:26 »
Nobody has even guessed it yet, but number 7 is the one that really intrigues me ...  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #24 on: October 23, 2016, 19:19:53 »
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4. Marsden?

No, but not hugely distant from the place ...
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« Reply #25 on: October 23, 2016, 21:39:56 »
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4. Marsden?

No, but not hugely distant from the place ...

Huddersfield then?
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« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2016, 21:49:04 »
1. Blunsdon. Swindon & Cricklade Railway?
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« Reply #27 on: October 23, 2016, 21:52:07 »
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Quote from: grahame on October 23, 2016, 19:19:53
Quote from: Merthyr Imp on October 23, 2016, 17:51:39
4. Marsden?

No, but not hugely distant from the place ...

Huddersfield then?

Correct!   The Friends of Huddersfield Station had a magnificent welcome point to the town ... looking at our talk elsewhere over the last day or two, Truro and Swindon might look to them as an example.

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« Reply #28 on: October 23, 2016, 21:52:54 »
Quote from: bignosemac on October 23, 2016, 21:49:04
1. Blunsdon. Swindon & Cricklade Railway?

Correct!
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« Reply #29 on: October 23, 2016, 21:54:53 »
Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on October 23, 2016, 19:14:26
Nobody has even guessed it yet, but number 7 is the one that really intrigues me ...  Roll Eyes

I'm surprised that one didn't go early ... and it's now the only one left.
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