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Yatton has the Strawberry Line cafe, a not-for-profit community-run cafe. Very nice and some books etc to read while eating too!

What are GLAPS?

Pilning only has 2 trains a week, both on Saturdays and in the same direction!

Coombe Junction Halt is quirky - only two trains each way a day and they have to use a special section of track to get there. Plus the mothballed line beyond to Moorwater.

Are there also messroom divisions between different unions, or between union members and non-union people?

Highbridge in Somerset used to be a large junction between the GWR and Somerset and Dorset lines, with I think five platforms, and is now just a simple two platform affair. Templecombe also in Somerset was a junction too, was closed and reopened as a one platform station.

Thanks for uploading, very professional video.

Would they really do that in practice though?

The branch from Gunnislake goes under the Cornish main line twice before joining it at St Budeaux.

Whilst also employing lots of people and contributing positively to the economy.

I think I read somewhere that both the bus driver and the train driver were disciplined/sacked for this incident. The train driver because he continued to move the train towards the bus despite the blockage. I could be wrong though.

What worries me more is that that press release says that ‘Content considered ‘NSFW’ can range in scale from inappropriate jokes and bad language’. Who determines what is inappropriate? At one day’s time common sense could be applied, but now almost any joke could be considered offensive by some.

What’s not to like is the cost, both for installation and ongoing maintenance. Surely there are more important things to spend taxpayers money on?

GWR don’t serve Bournemouth, you must mean SWR.

And the ramp-type footbridges look awful, being so large and bulky. Plus, because they are so long, most normal passengers don’t use them and so the ramps feel quite isolated and unsafe from a crime perspective. They should just stick some lights on the barrow crossings, much cheaper!

Ivybridge in Devon seems to be a bit of a white elephant. Intended partly as a park and ride station from Plymouth, it has suffered from a fluctuating train service and convoluted access from the A38. It’s also quite a way from the town centre.

There’s also Bishton level crossing near Newport on the South Wales Main Line, and Blue Anchor on the West Somerset Railway.

See also Pilning, which also lost its footbridge for OLE and now only has two services a week, in the same direction, and a ticket easement to compensate.

Sorry, what are WONs and PONs?

As we’re on the subject of Americanisms, one of my pet hates is ‘gotten’. Plus ‘train station’ where British English is a railway station.