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Dorian and I are definitely besties aren't we Dorian? x However we're not family members pretending not to be...

18 Nov 2014

Hugely inflated ego?  Really? Margaret Swift 15 Nov 2014 22:00 I'm not sure why I should have mentioned I was a frequent traveller to London earlier, although this is common knowledge amongst those who know me well. Margaret Swift 15 Nov 2014 21:30 I agree. It really is only those of us who commute daily to Exeter, London or the North that can speak with real knowledge on this ...

18 Nov 2014

Come on, come on, Come on, come on, Come on, come on, Come on. D'you wanna be in my gang , my gang, my gang, D'you wanna be in my gang, Oh Yeah!

18 Nov 2014

That blasted Train Manager has a lot to answer for! Let's face it, the only reasons that Margaret was questioning me more and more insistently regarding Frome was because it was me, because it was getting later and later at night, and because she didn't believe that I was a frequent traveller to London who had encountered signalling problems enroute. ALL CHANGE!

17 Nov 2014

Well said Michael.

17 Nov 2014

You don't own a line... Seriously though, you're right about Beeching's motives. However the only people scaremongering, in my opinion, are those who suggest that the Dawlish seawall is on the verge of collapse again. If a DAL is built, in my opinion again it wouldn't be a branch line it would be built, because of the inherent costs involved, to serve the HSTs, and I believe that the ...

16 Nov 2014

Hahaha. That's really funny. It really is.

16 Nov 2014

Margaret, for the last time, I was merely repeating what the Train Manager said! Do they not have signals at the 'junction' with this offshoot line that you're obsessed with? I'm really not sure why you were focussing on this minor point late last night. The overall point that I was making, and which you ignored, was that trains to/from Penzance are affected by infrastructure issues everywhere ...

15 Nov 2014

Margaret, I've looked at a PDF of the FGW route map, and it does indeed show that the train I was on goes past Frome (I never said "through Frome") and would have been affected by signalling problems there. Thanks, I didn't think I misheard. https://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/-/media/PDF/Routemaps/network-map.pdf

15 Nov 2014

Pete (Onaport, etc) - I'll shut up when I decide to, not when you say so. Margaret, I'm only going by the announcement made on the train!! I know what you're talking about and I know what I'm talking about.

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