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What river is at the mouth of Aberystwyth? the Ystwyth? Excuse my poor Welsh/Cornish:rolleyes: I remember Alphaline 158s - 11:36 (nearly all stations) from Penzance to Fishguard having bi-Lingual signs English & Welsh for the whole route - would have been more fun & politically correct to have...

Speaking purely from a customer perspective Jimm

WOT about those of us who want to get back to Penzance (& The Rest of Cornwall) after 21:30 from PAD ?? How can London to Bristol be called a long distance service it's virtually a commuter service about an hour & a bit from London - Plymouth to Penzance is 2hrs on top of the time from London...

I was told some years ago by a Rolls Director 'British Brains' & the brawn comes from wherever it is cheapest These days I guess its: The best brains & the cheapest brawn

Lots of people from Cornwall coming back home Saturday night after a day somewhere in the UK - not necessarily London

From The Thread Title: Sleeper service extended to cover Saturdays

Would be nice to have a Saturday sleeper so that Cornish Rugby fans could get home from away games on Saturday night :wub:

Or connecting with Crosscountry services at Newton Abbott where the Railway Inn provides a much nicer waiting environment than Plymouth Station :p

So by that observation any pre-digital driver should be able to fix it

I had 4 x 2hr journeys on GWR 2+8 HST's last week between Penzance & Plymouth - all on time, extremely smooth, very comfortable & pretty quiet, agree about the squeak in the gangways but the sound is muffled by the door into the seated area. I've never noticed any reliability issues down this...

Thread on Great Western Passengers' Forum goes into considerable detail on this event

Would make a good replacement for the 800's

I was on the 10:00 out of PZ AIUI the derailment was due to be the 09:00 GWR staff worked really hard to make sure the delayed passengers got a seat on the !0:00 I only went as far as Plymouth but looked as if everyone got a seat till there

Quite Right: Scotlands gain Cornwall's loss - now 2hrs from Penzance to the English Border at Plymouth +3hrs then to Paddington all on a DFT specified Class 802 DMU with no buffet car

Looks like they have retained the GWR 1st seats which are fairly new & IMHO very comfortable & look good Video on You Tube

Yep - Mali Rose is a complete dog of a ship A cheap cut & shut job, already had a crash in the dock as the thrusters don't work if both engines are in use https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/isles-scilly-freight-ship-mali-456002 A genuine fear she would break in half in not even a...

"The "Mali Rose" replaced the Gry Maritha last year" The Mali Rose was bought to replace the Gry Maritha but turned out to be unfit to run the service & no-one in Penzance will sail on her either - heads are rolling due to the money lost/wasted. The Gry Maritha 'Grim Reaper' has been an...

The GWR GTI sets are being used mainly in Cornwall not England (& we get more cast offs than most) but I have to say the 1st set is like a brand new train to most people & although only std class - for 2+hr journeys much better than the 3rd world stock we have become accustomed to

On XC Voyagers convert one car to a lavatory car ( asian & euro choices) 1 or 2 cars to all standing ( 1 on a 4 car - 2 on a 5 car) 5th Class 1 car on a 5 car to be 3+2 seating 4th class The existing 1st class to be more correctly sold as 3rd class

Not mentioned anywhere on this thread that I have seen - but with a joined up Nationalised railway, rolling stock could once again be moved by rail instead of the ludicrous sight of rolling stock moving by road - for 4Qs Sake :rolleyes: