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Trip Report: 231003-231009 Sea Mills to Falmouth (Real destination Penmere). Posted before it turns from trip history to ancient history. Plan: Booked with the RailForum website: [Off Peak Returns split at TVP & STS] Out: 0820 SML-BRI (0856), 0856 BRI-FAL (13:39) 1604 Return: 1115-Truro...

WSM - SML: Looped - Technical Failure - Terminated - Platform Change - BUT 1 hr late = 100 % Delay Repay? CYCLING SOUTH Yesterday, 15 Jan 2024, brought light northerlies and brilliant sunshine so I cycled south across the north Somerset levels, lunching on hot pasty from Pullin's bakery on a...

Yesterday, waiting for a train at Cam & Dursley I saw the shortest goods train in the world. Two class 68's and one nuclear flask wagon, enough power to accelerate into orbit. *** I surmise that two locomotives are used for redundancy reasons rather than, for example as a way of getting one of...

Yesterday, 3 July, passing Avonmouth Hanson sidings about 0820, I saw a queue of about twenty road tipper wagons, generally articulated, generally sheeted, generally empty, stationary, with some of the drivers standing around. In front of them was a train of cement tankers with a class 66 at the...

Severn Beach Line trains have been cancelled beyond Clifton Down since the 0954 at SML this morning, due to 'flooding by the sea'. (1) What has happened? High tide at Sea Mills was 0854 today, 13m, which is fairly high and will just bring it onto the quay, but the railway is about 2 m higher...

New bike shed at Severn Beach station: Probably the only occasion on which it will see a bicycle parked in it. Apart from which, given the height and lack of sidewalls the roof must provide very little shelter, any shelter coming from the wall being to the west. So why? Does it herald a...

I once travelled from Sea Mills to Silloth often enough to regard it as routine, but have not done so since 2018. Planning to do so again I find the service changed. Formerly an XC from Bristol to New Street arrived there about xx54, connecting into a Euston-Scotland train that departed about...

Last month I took advantage of the new cross-town train service to go cycling in Somerset, buying a senior railcard ticket from the guard in the usual way, travelling out, unusually for me, in the morning peak. The guard read out the details of the ticket, he printed it and I folded it into my...

I would welcome references to bus or tram controlled traffic lights, both system (1) and equipment level, particularly manufacturer's data or official descriptions of systems, although histories would also be useful (2). I am thinking of things like refs (1) and (2) but for as many examples as...