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3Spires
SW Leicestershire |
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Fri 10th Aug 2018 2:54pm
Hi MR - hope you are well - and thanks for the great photo ![]() ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Fri 10th Aug 2018 3:24pm
Hi & thank you 3Spires,
You are most welcome. ![]() |
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Midland Red
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Fri 10th Aug 2018 5:12pm
On 10th Aug 2018 2:54pm, 3Spires said:
Did you take this photo on the WarwickshireRailways.com site - as you seem to have been standing in the same spot in space, if not time?
No! I'm know I'm getting on, but not quite THAT old! ![]() ![]() |
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Thu 16th Aug 2018 7:30pm
My advice: don't have any truck with that old photo. |
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Thu 16th Aug 2018 7:42pm
Bit of a problem. As is well known, we use the trains a lot, and have planned to go to London both this and next weekend, to EUS (handy as it's on the Northern Line tube). Not on business, you understand, but social - different sets of friends with birthdays. But Euston will be completely closed for 3 consecutive weekends, starting this Saturday. The excuse given is that they're doing work for the HS2, so it looks like HS2 is going ahead, even though the country can't afford it. How dare they close Euston! And for another white elephant.
So it's a case of using the slower Chiltern line from LMS to MYB. Reckon that train will be packed! ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Thu 16th Aug 2018 7:55pm
Hi Slim ![]() |
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Midland Red
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Thu 16th Aug 2018 8:13pm
On 16th Aug 2018 7:42pm, Slim said:
Bit of a problem. As is well known, we use the trains a lot, and have planned to go to London both this and next weekend, to EUS (handy as it's on the Northern Line tube). Not on business, you understand, but social - different sets of friends with birthdays. But Euston will be completely closed for 3 consecutive weekends, starting this Saturday. The excuse given is that they're doing work for the HS2, so it looks like HS2 is going ahead, even though the country can't afford it. How dare they close Euston! And for another white elephant.
So it's a case of using the slower Chiltern line from LMS to MYB. Reckon that train will be packed!
Perhaps Warwick Parkway might be a better bet?![]() |
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Thu 16th Aug 2018 8:39pm
I had considered that, but it means a car journey with expensive parking, and increases the journey time. It's more convenient to get the train from KNW to LMS on the outward, then get a late bus Sunday evening (there being no trains at KNW on a Sunday!). |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Sun 19th Aug 2018 7:06pm
Hi all ![]() |
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Sun 19th Aug 2018 11:32pm
Full marks to Chiltern. Train service to London and back excellent this weekend. (It was a nuisance that the Bakerloo line was closed all weekend, but that's another matter.) And a lot cheaper than going West Coast line to Euston: only £20.15 return, valid on all weekend trains. I intend to use that route again, as opposed to the West Coast line. Virgin Trains don't deserve the business. Long story short, I had a ruck with VT over an incident where they cocked up ages ago. It has taken over 3 months of failed telephone calls ("we're sorry, we're not answering the phone today") and emails which were totally ignored, for them to reply to me by post with a letter that implies I'm responsible for checking and correcting their mistakes, but as a gesture they're refunding me by way of an enclosed travel voucher, which I didn't want as I had made it quite clear I wanted the money putting back into my bank account. Their website is deliberately over-complicated and difficult to use, and it proudly assures you they will settle your claim within 28 days.
Contrast that with West Midland trains. Recently there was a couple of incidents in north London, a trackside fire and a fatality (suicide usually), causing numerous cancellations from Euston and my train was over 3 hours late departing. Their online claim site was straightforward, and the full refund was paid into my bank account before the end of the week.
There's a site called TrustPilot, and the numerous reviews show are that my experience of VT is par for the course. They don't want anyone to contact them, and are hoping the general public will get fed up with being ignored, then go away so they end up pocketing a lot of cash. Well I'm not the general public! |
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mcsporran
Coventry & Cebu |
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Sat 25th Aug 2018 12:22pm
Railway & bus photographer Ken Jones has sent me this photo which he believes was taken in Coventry in the early 1960s but asks if anyone can recognise the location.
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Mark O
Blackpool |
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Sat 25th Aug 2018 9:33pm
Websters brickworks sidings? University of Central Lancashire
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Fri 14th Sep 2018 8:37am
Morning all ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red
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Fri 14th Sep 2018 9:27am
Train 4L22 Hams Hall-Felixstowe, hauled by Class 66 66727 - at low speed, Whitacre Junction - only eight minutes into its journey ![]() |
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matchle55
Coventry |
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Fri 14th Sep 2018 3:29pm
Hams Hall?????????? I bet it was full of BMW engines. |
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