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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:37 #43371 | |
Late Turn
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Langham.
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:39 #43372 | |
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jwsetford
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nah.
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:41 #43374 | |
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Late Turn
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You don't go there? The rest of them between Stansted and Birmingham do  .
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:48 #43376 | |
Temple Meads
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HST's are my favourite, also got a particular soft spot for 37's, 60's, 70's, 323's and just for their crap factor, Pacers.
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:55 #43377 | |
58050
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Temple Meads you are a brave man admitting to some of those items of rolling stock you like. With the exception of Cl.37s, Cl.60s & Cl.70s I'd keep quiet about the rest. Railway rolling stock isn't getting any better when people start to admit they like some of what you've mentioned. 
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:55 #43378 | |
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jwsetford
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oops. read location wrong.
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:56 #43379 | |
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Late Turn
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Are you one of the cheery chaps who waves then??
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 17:03 #43380 | |
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jwsetford
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yhnormally
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 17:29 #43384 | |
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Late Turn
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Where's your home depot?
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 18:06 #43388 | |
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Temple Meads
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" said:Temple Meads you are a brave man admitting to some of those items of rolling stock you like. With the exception of Cl.37s, Cl.60s & Cl.70s I'd keep quiet about the rest. Railway rolling stock isn't getting any better when people start to admit they like some of what you've mentioned. :ohmy:All that matters is that I like it, no one else has to
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 19:53 #43393 | |
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Rickurd
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" said:" said:Well saidTemple Meads you are a brave man admitting to some of those items of rolling stock you like. With the exception of Cl.37s, Cl.60s & Cl.70s I'd keep quiet about the rest. Railway rolling stock isn't getting any better when people start to admit they like some of what you've mentioned. :ohmy:All that matters is that I like it, no one else has to ;) 
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 19:59 #43394 | |
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Rickurd
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" said:" said:There is nothing wrong with Cross Country services. You can't blame them for lack of seats, as the SRA banned Virgin (as it was then) from ordering longer voyagers, and XC are stuck with them now. People slam Voyagers but praise Meridians, and they are virtually the same train, just a different interior layout. I mean XC have removed the shop on Voyagers to make room for additional seats, and do now run 5 HST sets as well, to help ease over crowding.and generally anything run by cross country (words cannot describe my dislike at having to use them at least once per month for two hours!) Phew. Rant over Log in to reply |
| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 20:04 #43396 | |
jc92
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" said:" said:I have two gripes with XC...." said:There is nothing wrong with Cross Country services. You can't blame them for lack of seats, as the SRA banned Virgin (as it was then) from ordering longer voyagers, and XC are stuck with them now. People slam Voyagers but praise Meridians, and they are virtually the same train, just a different interior layout. I mean XC have removed the shop on Voyagers to make room for additional seats, and do now run 5 HST sets as well, to help ease over crowding.and generally anything run by cross country (words cannot describe my dislike at having to use them at least once per month for two hours!) 1. if the train is the 8:21 to york, then it would be nice for it to depart at 8:21 not 8:30 or 8:32 (partly an issue with the route not the TOC, but also they frequently have insufficient crew available. 2. im not sure that Barton CSD understand how to empty/service toilets, as they are consistently out of use and stink the whole vestibule out (coincidentally the vestibule i'm stood in because of the overcrowding.) i have another gripe with some staff skill issues but i dont feel this is an appropriate place to voice those... "We don't stop camborne wednesdays" Log in to reply |
| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 20:06 #43397 | |
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Rickurd
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I have never has an issue with the toilets on XC trains, and I use them every week, and they are very rarely late, at least for my journey, and if they are late eg the xx:28 to Plymouth, its usually due to following a late running East Coast service.
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 21:43 #43401 | |
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Temple Meads
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The main issue with toilets on Voyagers is not availability but the smell that invades the saloons. My major Voyager gripe however, concerns a lack of seating, and if you can get a seat it's cramped anyway..
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| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 00:29 #43406 | |
BarryM
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ooooah for a 59 class! The engine that woke up BR! Bazz Barry, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Log in to reply |
| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 11:22 #43413 | |
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jwsetford
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My home depot is at cambridge.
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| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 11:28 #43414 | |
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Late Turn
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Ah, excellent, ta - just wondered, as obviously you'll come this way more often than the Birmingham chaps. Do the Cambridge lot sign via Grantham, or is it just Stansted - Cambridge - Peterboro' - Leicester - Birmingham?
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| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 14:26 #43416 | |
Red For Danger
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Only one - Must be the Duke of Gloucester - the lads have done a fine job on restoring her back to the loco she should have prof#vided when new.
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| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 16:12 #43419 | |
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jwsetford
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yh late turn. that is the route us guys take.
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| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 16:22 #43420 | |
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Late Turn
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I know you go via Melton, but I didn't know if you also signed via Grantham. Some do, but not all!
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| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 16:35 #43421 | |
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jwsetford
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no i dont go to grantham. XC's trains dont go to grantham as far as im concearned. maybe if your diverted you'd go via grantham and nottingham.
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| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 17:34 #43423 | |
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Late Turn
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Yes - they are sometimes diverted that way at short notice. One went round that way last week when there was a failed freight on the Up at Stamford. I thought it was the Cambridge men who signed the diversion, but obviously not!
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| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 17:36 #43424 | |
DriverCurran
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I would say my favourite train is the one I shall be getting on in about half an hour, i.e the going home train from work   Paul You have to get a red before you can get any other colour Log in to reply The following user said thank you: postal |
| What is your favourite train 13/04/2013 at 20:13 #43425 | |
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john havenhand
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youre not going to like this but I like them the humble 142
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