Is 2 Duirinish? I think I've only been twice, once by road, but it seems to be popular with Highland cattle and looks like it's been plonked in a stereotypical Scottish Highland landscape!

 
4. Site of former Dundee Esplanade station looking back at the Tay Bridge from the Northern end.

 
That would have been my second answer. 

I only know the Edinburgh one because I used to work for a Scottish financial services company, and their head office is in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.  When we from the Bristol branch travelled to Edinburgh for team meetings, I was so envious of one of my colleagues there: her desk overlooked, through a full height picture window, the entire castle.  How inspiring is that, for a workstation? 

CfN. 

 
7. Tay Bridge

 
1.  Edinburgh, Waverley station, looking up to the castle.

 
Some pictures take in or from a train or zoomed - fuzzies, reflections and so forth about - can you identify one each ...

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I'm sorry for that confusion, ChrisB:  I've now moved your post here and will amend the topic headings for those historic TravelWatch SouthWest meetings.

CfN. 

 
This thread now has the wrong subect line and dopes not refer to the March 21 2025 meeting!

 
Fair comment: this ongoing topic is no longer specific to any particular 'on this day', so I've broadened it here.

CfN. 

 
It would be worth paying £41.50, purely to be able to enjoy this view out of a train window, on a journey between Didcot Parkway and Cardiff Central:



From the BBC.

 
I’m on the 19:04 EL train from TWY (I’m going to Hayes) which left from P2 (which I was fortunate to aim for as according to RTT the previous one ran 13 minutes late and didn’t call there). This particular train is non-stopping Taplow and Burnham as indeed all EL trains are doing this evening with no advice that I’ve seen or heard so I don’t know what passengers to and from those stations are meant to do.

Also all the GWR trains on the PAD-DID route are shown on the screens at TWY as cancelled - from RTT it looks like they’re running but not stopping at TWY or MAI as in the message posted above.

 

* An apology. 
* An expression of care in acknowledging it is not as it should be.

I'm not sure it even needs a title though 

 
How would you describe that piece of hard-coded text then?

 

Is it just me - or is that really NOT customer advice?

I would expect "Customer advice" to be something like "People who normally use GWR trains to Maidenhead or Telford should allow an extra  half hour and will need to change at Reading if coming from further west" . It actually advises the customers what to do!

 

 
I wouldn't have.

 
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/portishead-railway-line-group-criticised-9996451

I am not sure whether I should be giving that space.  All for expression of different views and bringing all the ideas out, but isn't now the time with a decision made and so many parties aligned in the view that the public transport connection to Portishead should be restored as a railway for parties that think it is not an ideal solution to let them get on with it.

The Portishead Bus Campaign is in the press again telling everyone "The Portishead Busway Campaign has labelled the return of trains between Bristol and Portishead as "ill-conceived", "scandalous" and "pure kneejerk nostalgia"" ... and suggesting again their solution of a rubber matted bus way. All they (who are they - I can only find one name associated with it) in my view is to break the consensus - they (or Barry) want(s) better public transport and so do we - a shame to divide the public transport advocates and risk ending up with nothing. 

 
https://www.passenger.chat/r30000.html

Another milestone passed - topic number 30,000.  There are just shy of 25,800 topics on the forum as around 13% have been merged and a tiny number - my guess is less than 1% - have been deleted. 1135 members have contributed with posts (920 making multiple posts) which total 356192 in number, no one member posting more than 12%.

I happen to have hit no. 30,000 on the agenda and call for TravelWatch SouthWest a week on Friday - 21st March 2025. 

 
*Admires Nailsea and Backwell station and surrounds on Google Streetview*

Ah, of course, the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Money was squeaky-tight.

Mark

 
Suspect engineering trains getting the way for that, Infoman.

The lines are only shut to passenger & freight trains. They have to get equipment to sites to/from each end.

 
well, I wouldn't directly embed the sort of video....but this is on the BBC website.

It is actually amazing - the guy is drunk asleep & is not woken by the Peruvian train - but gets up after a definite collision with the train....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cq6yzll9j92o

 
Updating the subject header?

 
From the BBC

 
That seems to be pretty much what the DfT wanted to do in England

 
At Nailsea & Backwell, there is no taxi rank and neither taxis nor private hire cars ply for trade anywhere near the station.

The same is true of Bedminster, Parson Street, Yatton and Worle - stations either side of Nailsea & Backwell on the main line.

 
Thanks for this. So... a single, substantial & distinctive masonry arch. Somewhere, I've read some derogatory comment about it (the author biassed by their feelings for this modern-world intrusion into the world of the upper Thames). Perhaps it did put a kink into the road, or perhaps someone was keen to demolish it for the masonry, which elsewhere on the Cirencester branch is good stuff.

Good to have a name too: Clayfurlong bridge (marked as a viaduct on some OS maps).

(The photos are from the same negative - in the tinted one, someone's removed the figure...)

It was quite a dramatic crossing of the valley. Here's the view from upstream, the gap slightly lost in trees.

Mark

 

Our licencing council insist that all new 'black cabs' are accessible. So we have plenty here.

Private Hire are a law unto themselves - but definitely realise the amount of work that is out there for accessible vehicles, so most companies have some....but they don't all work around the clock, so getting one late in the evening is quite a lottery unless booked well in advance.

 
Is the correct answer.

 

I considered that, but then tried to think how I would do / write that and failed to find an adequate approach.