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Public transport nerd. Scout. Goth.
Brummie in Banbury.
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A strange first for me in two ways,
1 - being held up by a steam tractor
2 - being a special tourist bus it has special fares, but accepts stagecoach megarider tickets. So I rode for free and pensioners had to pay
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I bloody love you Lewis, but for the love of fuck how do you not see it?
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And yet he insists that the media doing the exact same isn't a problem
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The message shouldn't have been "we're not running trains from/to Birmingham because of the Blues fans", it should have been "we're throwing all of our resources at running the longest possible trains at really frequent intervals direct from a major park and ride facility near Birmingham to Wembley"
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Close them both.
Even some "peak" S3 journeys I've been on through Combe have had no one use them to be fair...
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Back into Aberystwyth proper to enjoy the cliff railway and a bit of beach before the T1 back to Carmarthen for the night
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A train from Pwllheli crosses the Dovey as it arrives into the junction with half of a Birmingham service
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Made a "pilgrimage" to Dovey Junction to watch all the trains leave and spend an hour in the remote(ish) nothingness
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Waited till midday for a drink. I must be getting old.
Time for a train
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At low tide, you can reach St Catherine's island, and you can walk underneath the island!
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More beach, just at low tide this time
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With the Traws Cymru buses to Cardigan disrupted at the moment (I picked a crap weekend for this corner of the world...), I abandoned Fishguard to head back to Whitland and the Tenby line in daylight
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Onto my targets for the day. Two small stretches of the Pembrokeshire branches I haven't travelled yet:
The end of the line at Pembroke Dock, and a bus up to Haverfordwest to clear the small section up to the junction at Clarbeston Road
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I was tempted, but waiting for normal service to start
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And now the crippling realisation that thanks to this morning's chaos I don't have time to complete the last required bit of the Valley lines up to Treherbert before my booked train further west, so I'll have to come all the way back again one day. Meh.
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Current end of the line for the Aberdare branch, looking up towards Hirwaun where it will potentially extend to.
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Quick jaunt down to Cardiff Bay to see the progress of the redeveloped branch while my other plans get thrown in the air by yet more rail chaos...
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Obviously as soon as I got the suggested bus to Lydney, they started allowing the TfW services as far as Gloucester. And obviously the train after the one I was meant to be on overtook me en route.
So. Breakfast and 2 hours behind schedule, but at least I'm on track now
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Sometimes.
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And then to the main target of the day, the two metro routes to Guildford, completing the South Western network and a bonus ride on the heritage liveried class 455 in the process
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...and back to East Putney to watch 2G94 roll through
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So it was on to Wimbledon to ride 2G90 via the rare track...
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And if they said they were against it, you'd ask what they'd do.
And if they said a specific sanction or something, you'd suggest we'd be alienating the most powerful nation on the planet.
Come on Lewis, we love you, but you know they have to toe a line surely?
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Giving the idiots fire is a brave choice...
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A map.
186 miles by bus, with a cheeky train from and back to Banbury
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Avebury henge at sunset
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Headed across the Cotswolds to Cheltenham on my favourite bus route, then a snap decision once I saw a Trident arriving to head down through Stroud and eventually Old Sodbury for some gorgeous views across South Gloucestershire. Now back on the buses en route to Wiltshire for some other views