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It would be so much better an option if GWR actually ran from Bristol TM to Birmingham New Street instead as well as to Worcester and Hereford and be given the chance to avoid London. Getting from the Underground to the platforms at St Pancras and Kings Cross is a nightmare. You walk miles or so...

XC not doing themselves any favours. 1V52 -0703 Edinburgh to Penzance is presently 119 late at Marsh Barton. The return journey 1M92 from Penzance to Birmingham is cancelled between Penzance and Par. Reason Given: Unknown cause.

For once, I feel sorry for any holiday makers trying to return home to say the North East from the South West, Having to decide how to get home. GWR service to Didcot, then to Oxford then Birmingham and connect somehow on services to the North East? Or GWR to Worcester having to change at...

Looking forward to it Don. It's a goodie and a rarity for the likes of me in the far South West.

GWR have announced changes to their timetable because of the weather. The train services between Truro and Falmouth are set to run hourly, instead of half-hourly, and the Okehampton branch line will be replaced by bus services. Trains between Exeter St David's and Barnstaple would continue to...

I am assuming that the vehicle is being carried backwards. I am wondering where the car would be dropped off. St Erth, I suppose but possibly on the bridge on the road above the line at Dynamite Quay in Lelant.

Best Wury - Especially if you are concerned about a connection there

In my long 72 years, I have never been aware of any preference for the LSWR or the GWR companies or groups. Here in the far South West, It has always been God's Wonderful Railway, The LSWR just operated to the east and north of Cornwall. To us, the big wigs in London have been and still are and...

I can say that down here in the far South West, I've certainly not heard any of the named trains being announced at Truro, St Erth or Penzance which to my mind is a shame as a named train would add a certain class to long distance travel. One name I would really like to see brought back is the...

I know I shouldn't bite but alkaline water is H2O with NaCl added. But what really gets me that at the bottom of my page there are links for deep-fat fryers, Deep fat fryer fryers Deep Fryers, Convection Ovens Potato Chips, Convection Ovens and Small Kitchen Appliances. This is what happens when...

I think the words "put together" indicates that it was an auto announcement. Non-the-less you'd think that someone somewhere would be checking these announcements that are pre-recorded.

I don't know if the following is unusual, or even amusing or just plain weird and it made me think as to who prepares such announcements to be made and published. I was standing waiting for a service from Truro to St Erth on Platform 2. A pleasant enough day so I was not looking for shelter...

Re: the earlier posting today about the tree down on the line near to Truro. It's been very windy here in the far West today, and given that we lost thousands of trees earlier this month, it wouldn't surprise me if more came down in the next few weeks. Many trees have been weakened by the storm...

It's a sort of Groundhog Day effect. In the 72 years I've been living and since the Beeching closure of the Okehampton/Tavistock route, every time there is a huge storm that hits and damages the Dawlish-Teignmouth wall, everyone from the Somerset Border to Lands End shouts about the cost to the...

Oh yes, One of my bug bears, the sitting at the aisle with luggage/bags/coat at the window seat. I have seen on a number of occasions, passengers, usually of the female variety, sitting at a four seat table, hogging all the seats and placing a handbag on the seat opposite them as well...