busman
Corley |
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Wed 2nd May 2018 6:15pm
The guy was me and I still have the photo somewhere. Roger Burdett
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Deannottz
Nottingham |
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Sat 5th May 2018 8:25pm
Cool would be great if you could dig it out dmcpherson
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ralphtheblues
sri lanka |
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Wed 23rd May 2018 5:58am
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PeterB
Mount Nod |
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Sat 26th May 2018 11:47pm
Birmingham International Panel in Birmingham New Street signal box closed this morning.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Mon 28th May 2018 10:37am
Hi Peter,
I use that site often. Maybe after this upgrade, we might get the signal status north of International.
Thank you for your flow of info to our forum
Best wishes to you,
ps. I have included this simply because it really takes the biscuit, if you will pardon the expression. It is not in Coventry.
Can someone call the AA, or ring the Royal! |
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PeterB
Mount Nod |
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Mon 28th May 2018 11:15pm
I have finally got photo upload to work again (I think backing up to the cloud was slowing it down too much).
Finally here is the headboard (Windowboard?) from the re-opening of Kenilworth Station.
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Wed 30th May 2018 7:48am
I have nothing but praise for Kenilworth station, in particular its staff. For the long bank holiday weekend just gone, we went from Kenilworth to Euston. There was a problem with the car parking ticket machine, which is because it had not been programmed correctly. It didn't recognise a £2 coin, didn't understand the difference between weekend/bank holiday/weekdays, and so forth. The gentleman could not have been more helpful, leaving his office to come outside and help sort out the issue. A small one-horse town station with friendly staff.
Contrast that with Euston a few weeks ago, where I can only describe the uniformed army of Virgin staff as unhelpful and obstructive, and all because of an error on the part of Virgin staff at another station. For the fist time in my life I've filed an official complaint against them and am claiming a refund.
(Whilst on the subject of the machine being incorrectly programmed [station staff told me that, and they were correct], it annoys me when organisations, e.g. as in the recent NHS issue, blame "a computer error" for a cock-up. They are misleading the public. It's easy to blame an inanimate machine. In reality, computer hardware errors are rare. What happens is that the software screws up because it has not been written correctly, or hasn't been tested thoroughly, or specified correctly in the first place. And that's human error which they don't like to admit to!) |
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PeterB
Mount Nod |
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Fri 15th Jun 2018 10:53pm
Sunday services from Kenilworth Could Start in December (Kenilworth News)
West Midlands Trains have put in a track access application to run a Sunday service through Kenilworth from the December timetable change (Sunday 9th December). This assumes that the 'new' (ex London Overground) trains are available by then. They also want to run "an" extra service (technically this means extra one train a day, not a half hourly service) and link with the Nuneaton service to run Nuneaton-Leamington through trains.
The application form should be online shortly which will have more details. Just because they are asking doesn't mean they will get what they want. One implication could be more Birmingham trains using platform 4 so that the Nuneaton Trains don't have to cross the lines to and from Birmingham at the same time which would be a timetabling nightmare.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Sat 16th Jun 2018 9:01am
Hi & thank you for that Peter ![]() |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Sat 16th Jun 2018 9:27am
Neither Phil ! It's they are so should be they're. ![]() |
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3Spires
SW Leicestershire |
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Sat 16th Jun 2018 9:28am
On 16th Jun 2018 9:01am, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Hi & thank you for that Peter
Good morning Philip
That should be a "their" in this instance (the possessive form). ![]() ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Sat 16th Jun 2018 10:20am
Hello 3Spires,
Thank you so much. Will I have to write lines in detention? |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Sat 16th Jun 2018 10:33am
Looks like I will have to join you Phil, completeley misread it ![]() |
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3Spires
SW Leicestershire |
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Sat 16th Jun 2018 11:09am
A warm "Thank you" to both of you for your good natured and humorous comments - a tribute to the quality of this forum ![]() ![]() |
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PeterB
Mount Nod |
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Sun 17th Jun 2018 1:31am
On 16th Jun 2018 9:01am, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Hi & thank you for that Peter
The new units for Kenilworth are supposed to be Class 172's from London Overground which were due to transfer to the West Midlands in the Autumn, but I read somewhere this this has been postponed due to the late delivery of the trains that are replacing them.
West Midland Trains are also hiring three 2-car Ex London Underground Class 230's for the Bletchley-Bedford line. These were originally Proposed for the Coventry-Nuneaton line, but this was abandoned when the trial unit caught fire at Kenilworth. They could be used as a stop gap on the Kenilworth service until the class 172's become available. Particularly as there is no Sunday service on the Bletchley-Bedford line.
Peter. ![]() |
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