The Bristol Railway Archive

Also done quite well in the ratings - 1.29m or 6.7% share. That's pretty good for a digital channel and not at all bad for a "minority" interest programme! Lets hope that the planners take note that there is a seizable audience for railway programmes!

As for Railway Walks, according to Julia ...

From BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/6266715.stm

Commuter station to double tracks

Network Rail has announced plans to double the track near a busy commuter railway station in Somerset. It is hoped the doubling of the junction between Worle and Weston-super-Mare will ease ...

From http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/NewsItem.aspx?id=414 :

The daily commute will be radically transformed for millions of train passengers from January 2007 when First Great Western unveils the first of its new contemporary and stylish interiors for its High Speed Train (HST) fleet.


The new ...

James wrote:The residents of Yatton and Nailsea have my sympathy.

Ya yes, but when you compare it to the preceding service which was a 2 car 143 that was already stuffed full when it left Worle, well then it's not so bad! Especially when you get a seat on the Voyager!

Mike

With the current closure of the mainline between Weston and Taunton I was surprised to learn VirginÆs 0832 departure from Weston-super-Mare to Newcastle is still running. Normally this is the 0640 from Plymouth but for the next 3 weeks (Mondays except) the service is starting from Weston with stock ...

I strongly suspect that the presence of the tamper was connected with the engineering work currently underway replacing point work around Bedminster and Parson Street. The reason there was no one around was probably that the tamper wasnÆt needed at the moment and the crew went to the site office to ...

The full & final versions of the new December 06 timetables are now available for download from the FGW website at http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=378.

Mike

From First Great Western
Burnham and Highbridge engineering works - Major rail investment continues in the West Country.
6 November 2006

Passengers using the railway between Highbridge & Burnham and Taunton are set to benefit from a ú750 million investment by Network Rail, which will improve ...

There's a couple of prostitutes and their pimps been hanging around FAW every time I've visited of late. Makes it a little camera unfriendly!

Indeed, those photos are for the "other" website! :shock: :oops: :lol:

Nice photos. It's surprising how much better the old Royal Mail building looking ...

Of course that's not what they do all day, they're far too busy looking for local trains to stick in front of Virgin Voyagers. Now watch the flak....

No, theyÆre looking for the coal train coming out of Portbury. This is so that at Bedminister they can hold an up passenger train on the main ...

Sitting next to passengers who "overspill" into the next seat is about as unpleasant an experience as you can get.
Good job I've got a sence of humor or you may have found that "overspill" was the second most unplesant experience as you can get! :shock: :lol:

Any back on topic, regarding the ...

I hope they don't replace the HST-design seats...they're the only comfortable ones left on the network!

If we end up with Voyager, Adelante, 377, or worse yet Volo seats then I think I'll start having driving lessons!

I think they might well be. Apparently during the consultation involving the ...

FGW have confirmed that the refurbished HSTs will start entering service in November. This seems to be good news; however there might be a fly in the ointment.

There have been rumours that FGW were planning to drop the buffet from London-Bristol TM route and replace it with a trolley service. While ...

Spin I suspect. The figure of ú750 million probably includes all maintenance on the GW Mainline for the next 3 years. The question is of course how much of this money is over and above what would be spent anyway!

"We're spending ú750 million" make a far better headline than "No trains between ...

Dave

Yes, various bits of the line have recently been renewed in the Yatton and Nailsea areas, including the crossover and passing loops at Yatton.

The assembled point work was laying on the ground at Yatton for several weeks before installation during the weekend positions in March/April this ...