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« on: November 28, 2011, 09:25:41 »
Seemingly there was a managers day out from temple meads yesterday.

on one of the busiest sundays of the year there was a decision to run a single car ex london midland train from weston leaving behind passengers even at weston - to use the planned unit for the managers days out.....
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« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2011, 07:28:50 »
Oooh.

Get some actual evidence and send it to the Evening Post.
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« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2011, 08:32:22 »
Quote from: JaminBob on November 29, 2011, 07:28:50
Oooh.

Get some actual evidence and send it to the Evening Post.

I could but then they'd have to kill me!
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« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2011, 10:38:17 »
I think it highly unlikely that a unit was taken off a diagram to provide for a Manager's jolly. More likely that this unit was not in use on a Sunday.

Yes, it could be used to ease overcrowding, but I'm unaware of any particular reason why passengers flows should have been heavier than normal at WsM on Sunday 27th November.
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« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2011, 18:00:59 »
Quote from: Mookiemoo on November 28, 2011, 09:25:41
... yesterday ... on one of the busiest sundays of the year there was a decision to run a single car ex london midland train from weston leaving behind passengers even at weston ...

Hmm.  Roll Eyes

I, too, am not convinced about that 'statistic', mookiemoo: in my experience, the busiest Sundays of the year for local Weston-super-Mare to Bristol train services are in the school holidays - and especially the Easter and August Bank Holidays.
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« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2011, 18:09:21 »
It would have been an EX LM▸ (London Midland - recent franchise) 153 transferred to FGW▸ (First Great Western) at the start of the Summer Service.
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