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« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2025, 14:42:47 »
Quote from: GBM on July 03, 2025, 14:20:08
Quote from: grahame on July 02, 2025, 15:43:42

Looking carefully - that's all just one train ...

Might be just one train, but still insufficient crew to run it.
Unfortunate if that was the one a passenger had selected to travel on earlier.

It was insufficient trains, or train, wasn’t it?
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« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2025, 15:35:06 »
Another email from GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) today extolling the benefits of taking the train to Gatwick Airport:
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Trains every 30 minutes from Reading to Gatwick mean you can wave goodbye to travel stress and enjoy a smooth ride, arriving in 90 minutes**

I thought those asterisks would be doing a lot of heavy lifting, but they're not really:
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**Average journey time from Reading.

At least there's a nice animation of a 3-car IET▸ (Intercity Express Train - replacement for HSTs (manufactured by Hitachi in Kobe, Japan)) in it!
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