RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 53 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: north of the M42 ish M4 for us yokels 😜 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 49 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: M4 for us yokels 😜 Life does not exist west of the M5 either and certainly nothing exists west of the Tamar. That makes Brizzle the Capital of the UK. 2 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 4 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: Brizzle You won't get me nowhere near big city. I'd also like the opportunity to mention, pennies permitting, I'd like one of they toplights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 51 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: You won't get me nowhere near big city. I'd also like the opportunity to mention, pennies permitting, I'd like one of they toplights. I've got some Toplights; I nicked them from Church. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said: Life does not exist west of the M5 either and certainly nothing exists west of the Tamar. That makes Brizzle the Capital of the UK. Up here, anyone from south of Preston gets called a southerner. My usual response is try walking into a pub in Birmingham and calling them southerners, you may want to call an ambulance in advance. 1 2 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 12 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Up here, anyone from south of Preston gets called a southerner. My usual response is try walking into a pub in Birmingham and calling them southerners, you may want to call an ambulance in advance. Inbetweeners is us Midlands lot! Then a soon as you get to Donny and South Yorkshire, it's bandit country! P 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said: Life does not exist west of the M5 either and certainly nothing exists west of the Tamar. That makes Brizzle the Capital of the UK. OK….if that’s the case,about time GWR & the city fathers spent cash on smartening it up a bit in recognition of its status. The station interior,platforms & furnishings have changed little since my days as a student there in the early 1960’s.IMHO not 21st C standards.Platform access being just one case in point.Same tunnel,same steps,same grind with heavy luggage: current platform height too low for new units: looking tired &in need of a good clean up. Try climbing steps to platform to join your train just as an arrived Paddington Hitachi is disgorging its load ….downhill . Sorry to rant but I find it sad that such a great station hasn’t moved with the times 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 15 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said: OK….if that’s the case,about time GWR & the city fathers spent cash on smartening it up a bit in recognition of its status. The station interior,platforms & furnishings have changed little since my days as a student there in the early 1960’s.IMHO not 21st C standards.Platform access being just one case in point.Same tunnel,same steps,same grind with heavy luggage: current platform height too low for new units: looking tired &in need of a good clean up. Try climbing steps to platform to join your train just as an arrived Paddington Hitachi is disgorging its load ….downhill . Sorry to rant but I find it sad that such a great station hasn’t moved with the times I remember those Steps Ian...argggh. Rant approved. Rather like some other decent Stations ... however I think they spent everything on Reading so that Mike Stationmaster would be happy! (LOL). Network Rail is the firm to get at, or is it a GWR Station? The latter have done others...even Retford. Lots of paint jobs AND a new Lift. However there was some local assistance with that, Lower Platform access on the Sheffield side. I have not been to Temple Meads for decades. The other place that needs serious white paint is New Street Nuclear Bunker. Philth. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 47 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Up here, anyone from south of Preston gets called a southerner. My usual response is try walking into a pub in Birmingham and calling them southerners, you may want to call an ambulance in advance. Having grown up in London amid road signs to Hatfield and the North (also a good pub rock band), it was quite a shock after moving to Edinburgh to see signs to Carlisle and the South. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 54 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: I remember those Steps Ian...argggh. Rant approved. Rather like some other decent Stations ... however I think they spent everything on Reading so that Mike Stationmaster would be happy! (LOL). Network Rail is the firm to get at, or is it a GWR Station? The latter have done others...even Retford. Lots of paint jobs AND a new Lift. However there was some local assistance with that, Lower Platform access on the Sheffield side. I have not been to Temple Meads for decades. The other place that needs serious white paint is New Street Nuclear Bunker. Philth. New Street has an identity crisis.Having started life as John Lewis Central ( now closed ),it has morphed into shopping mall with a subway with slimline platforms. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said: Inbetweeners is us Midlands lot! Then a soon as you get to Donny and South Yorkshire, it's bandit country! P The twee description of the Midlands is Middle England.Let’s arbitrarily say beginning at Milton Keynes in the South & ending at Chesterfield in the North.Western border is fairly easy-Wales. Eastern edge is problematic ,So again arbitrarily I’ll say the ECML . Howls of disagreement erupt …… 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 7 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said: New Street has an identity crisis.Having started life as John Lewis Central ( now closed ),it has morphed into shopping mall with a subway with slimline platforms. We've had to change trains there many times, when you get off it's like a subway station in some forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union, up into the shopping mall that's reminiscent of the hall of mirrors despite the colour coding, past the armed police and out through the giant spitball where at least if you don't get hassled for spare change by crackheads or run over by someone on a takeaway delivery bike, you can at least admire the restored cinema and the last remnants of the LNWR memorial. 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 2 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: I've got some Toplights; I nicked them from Church. Not the cathedral I nicked my clerestories from? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 18 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: All I knew about Yelverton was the old RAF Base, which was a bit of an adventure playground way out in the wilds back in the late 50s. Harrowbarrow, IIRC. Fighter 'drome for defending Plymouth/Devonport back in the day. Banks around the dispersal areas were still in place last time I was up there. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 2 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Having grown up in London amid road signs to Hatfield and the North (also a good pub rock band), it was quite a shock after moving to Edinburgh to see signs to Carlisle and the South. I've often wondered: why Hatfield? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 7 hours ago, Ian Hargrave said: OK….if that’s the case,about time GWR & the city fathers spent cash on smartening it up a bit in recognition of its status. The station interior,platforms & furnishings have changed little since my days as a student there in the early 1960’s.IMHO not 21st C standards.Platform access being just one case in point.Same tunnel,same steps,same grind with heavy luggage: current platform height too low for new units: looking tired &in need of a good clean up. Try climbing steps to platform to join your train just as an arrived Paddington Hitachi is disgorging its load ….downhill . Sorry to rant but I find it sad that such a great station hasn’t moved with the times I doubt anything much of significance will be done at Bristol TM in that regard. Having worked there and lived in the area for many years, I equate anyone in authority in Bristol actually authorising anything actually worth doing and that the city needs, with the likelihood of a p!ss up in a brewery... 1 1 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 1 minute ago, Captain Kernow said: I doubt anything much of significance will be done at Bristol TM in that regard. Having worked there and lived in the area for many years, I equate anyone in authority in Bristol actually authorising anything actually worth doing and that the city needs, with the likelihood of a p!ss up in a brewery... Not I sincerely hope the late unlamented George’s brewery…. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 9 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: Life does not exist west of the M5 either and certainly nothing exists west of the Tamar. That makes Brizzle the Capital of the UK. Hang on I live on the end of the A380... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 5 hours ago, Welchester said: I've often wondered: why Hatfield? I've also often wondered why a small village to the east of Doncaster was so special when it came to road signs near London. Adrian 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 10 hours ago, Tim Dubya said: M4 for us yokels 😜 The Grim Industrial North = the Desolate Lands North of Tiverton. 2 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted September 28, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: The Grim Industrial North = the Desolate Lands North of Tiverton. Cullompton Services. 2 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 1 minute ago, gwrrob said: Cullompton Services. A lot nicer than Bridgwater Services.... 6 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 5 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: The Grim Industrial North = the Desolate Lands North of Tiverton. I have a mate who grew up in Weymouth and he reckons "abroad" starts at Sturminster Newton! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2023 Just now, Oldddudders said: A lot nicer than Bridgwater Services.... Can't think of many places that aren't..... 1 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, Welchester said: I've often wondered: why Hatfield? And why not? You have such delights as the Comet Hotel, which is called something else these days but all the locals still call it the Comet. Ok Why Hatfield? Edited September 28, 2023 by Clive Mortimore 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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