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13:10 Penzance to London Paddington
15:14 Hereford to London Paddington
15:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
15:42 Bristol Temple Meads to Salisbury
15:49 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
15:54 Reading to Gatwick Airport
15:58 Cardiff Central to Taunton
16:02 Westbury to Gloucester
16:23 Westbury to Swindon
16:27 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
16:27 Exeter St Davids to Penzance
16:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading
16:30 London Paddington to Taunton
16:37 Reading to Basingstoke
16:38 Bristol Temple Meads to Worcester Foregate Street
16:52 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
17:00 Oxford to London Paddington
17:00 Great Malvern to London Paddington
17:03 Oxford to Didcot Parkway
17:06 Salisbury to Bristol Temple Meads
17:08 Gloucester to Weymouth
17:15 Penzance to Plymouth
17:23 Basingstoke to Reading
17:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading
17:34 Didcot Parkway to Oxford
17:35 Swindon to Westbury
17:52 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
18:00 Oxford to London Paddington
18:07 Reading to Basingstoke
18:08 Gloucester to Westbury
18:24 Reading to Gatwick Airport
18:25 Oxford to Banbury
18:27 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
18:35 Westbury to Swindon
18:38 Bristol Temple Meads to Great Malvern
18:52 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
18:53 Basingstoke to Reading
19:00 Banbury to Oxford
19:00 Oxford to London Paddington
19:08 Gloucester to Bristol Temple Meads
19:19 Carmarthen to Swansea
19:24 Reading to Gatwick Airport
19:32 Reading to Basingstoke
19:34 Plymouth to Penzance
19:44 Swindon to Westbury
19:59 Gatwick Airport to Reading
20:03 Bristol Temple Meads to Filton Abbey Wood
20:05 Oxford to Didcot Parkway
20:23 Basingstoke to Reading
20:51 Filton Abbey Wood to Bristol Temple Meads
20:59 Gatwick Airport to Reading
21:09 Gloucester to Bristol Temple Meads
21:23 Oxford to Banbury
21:28 Great Malvern to Bristol Temple Meads
22:04 Banbury to Didcot Parkway
22:12 Swindon to Westbury
23:20 Didcot Parkway to Oxford
13/07/25 08:01 Weymouth to Cardiff Central
13/07/25 09:00 Westbury to Weymouth
13/07/25 09:08 Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth
13/07/25 10:38 Weymouth to Swindon
13/07/25 11:32 Swindon to Weymouth
13/07/25 13:32 Swindon to Weymouth
13/07/25 14:05 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads
13/07/25 16:05 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads
13/07/25 17:48 Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth
13/07/25 17:53 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads
13/07/25 20:11 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads
13/07/25 20:49 Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth
Short Run
12:03 London Paddington to Penzance
13:03 London Paddington to Penzance
13:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
14:18 London Paddington to Carmarthen
14:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
14:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
15:08 Gloucester to Weymouth
15:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
15:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading
15:30 Weymouth to Gloucester
15:38 Bristol Temple Meads to Worcester Foregate Street
16:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
16:45 Bristol Temple Meads to Salisbury
16:46 Avonmouth to Weston-Super-Mare
17:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
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« on: May 31, 2025, 06:13:16 »
ITV West to celebrate 70 years of ITV,

had an item on the West Somerset railway from 1978 on the local news at 6pm on Friday 30 May 2025,enjoyable.
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« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2025, 12:14:29 »
Quote from: infoman on May 31, 2025, 06:13:16
ITV West to celebrate 70 years of ITV,

had an item on the West Somerset railway from 1978 on the local news at 6pm on Friday 30 May 2025,enjoyable.

Was this the archive item about the 1978 blizzard?

Days I remember very well indeed.  When the WSR had the purpose of being a useful public transport link for the people of West Somerset, and remembered all those people who queued for hours at Minehead station a couple of years earlier to buy shares that they'd been told would bring their Taunton trains back

The blizzard that very nearly killed me at the age of not yet 23
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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2025, 17:48:53 »
Quote from: Witham Bobby on June 02, 2025, 12:14:29
Days I remember very well indeed.  When the WSR had the purpose of being a useful public transport link for the people of West Somerset, and remembered all those people who queued for hours at Minehead station a couple of years earlier to buy shares that they'd been told would bring their Taunton trains back.
And they are still waiting… Roll Eyes
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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2025, 20:25:24 »
Quote from: Timmer on June 02, 2025, 17:48:53

And they are still waiting… Roll Eyes

Minehead ... Portishead ... Go-op ... Corsham ... Tavistock ... threre are so many schemes that would benefit form a JFDI▸ ('just flipping do it' (polite version)) approach.  Thinking as applied at Workington North and for rail-road interchange at Tiverton Parkway.
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