Many thanks for your adding all of that content here on the Coffee Shop forum, REVUpminster.

Chris from Nailsea. 

 
https://youtu.be/LMEVYdqjwjI

https://youtu.be/LMEVYdqjwjI

 
And yet, those who irrationally hate on Halal slaughter (88% pre-stunned in the UK)  are nearly always silent on Kosher slaughter for which pre-stunning isn't permitted at all.

Is is unimaginative and predictable to point that out?

Sod it. Its not irrational. It's nearly always islamophobia and/or racism.

 
Painton Station fire 23 July 2026 7 train in station by Robert, on Flickr

Train in platform empty Torquay-Paignton-Torquay

 
Painton Station fire 23 July 2026 2 by Robert, on Flickr

20260723_092147 by Robert, on Flickr

Painton Station fire 23 July 2026 5 by Robert, on Flickr

20260723_093144 by Robert, on Flickr

 
Paignton station. fire at footbridge 21 July 2026 by Robert, on Flickr

Fire at Paignton Station footbridge 21 July 2026 by Robert, on Flickr

I've put them on flkr. The image box here doesn't work for me so haven't used it.
These two are not mine.

 

welllll.....in might be easy



I can see the photo above - can we all?

 

I think you'll find a lot of people object to the non stun slaughtering of animals, however they're equally wary of being accused of racism, "Islamophobia" etc which tends to be the unimaginative, yet predictable default response to the airing of such objections with the aim of shutting down the debate.

 
Just seen what looks like new posters at Bradford on Avon station, near entrances, and there is a section on max luggage etc

It includes banned items and has silhouette (near bottom right) of one of those pull along hand trolleys that Festival goes often use

Wonder if WOMAD triggered the update, does Melksham or Chippenham have similar posters.  Possibly been there years but never noticed it before

 

Pasewalk. Not the most obvious place to be catching an international train - but I'm sure there was a reason for choosing a station that is so ... unimproved. Perhaps just that?

And to get there from Wernigerode/Vienenburg you'd almost have to go via Berlin, explaining why 7 is Berlin HBF. As well as the fact that little else is just so ... big! (Vertically, most strikingly.)

 
From the BBC:

 
I find it very difficult to upload here. There's no dopbox. I have in the past but first had to put on youtube if a video or flkr if an image.
Maybe Chris B can transfer them to here.

 
I can see them....and I'm not logged in for years!

 
They're vermin frankly, and I am don't have a problem - although plenty do in the comments to that article.

So I ask the question - why do many see shooting them as an inhumane way of killing when no one has any problem with Halal killing of any animal??

 
From the BBC:

 

It has been noted by us on the admin team here that those images are only viewable to registered members of 'railforums'.  Any guest reader there just gets a blank.

Many, many, years ago, I registered there as a member: I have no recollection even of the username I used, never mind the password.

If you could possibly post those photos where they can be viewed here on the Coffee Shop forum, REVUpminster, that would be much appreciated.

Chris from Nailsea. 

 

Made me reflect on the last time, away from preserved lines, I used a barrow crossing. Exeter St Davids, some time ago, encumbered by a bike with camping gear. Was that crossing provided with white lights that were lit when it was clear to cross or is that my imagination?

Oh, and, come to think of it, Carmarthen at the start of this year, though perhaps that doesn't quite count as a barrow crossing.

Mark

 
Re pictures 5 & 6. Why can't we treat rail passengers as adults in this country and let them cross the track?

Do they have higher railway accident rates in Europe?

 

If the steelwork is ok then it's a matter of stripping out the wood that's likely to fall down and that's what they seem to be doing. I went down yesterday and will go again tomorrow. Let's hope they are working. Gilpen demolishing the building opposite don't work weekends. One of the reasons it's taking six weeks.

 
From the link

 

Thank your for that excellent summary.

I suppose the answer to the question about the current "infrastructure" allowing the (re)laying of a third line depends on what you call "infrastructure".   If your definition include signalling and other cables, then I don't believe there is room any longer for a track where the up relief used to be.  If you define it as purely track work, then, yes, there is room.    I believe we have a similar issue with the 4th platform at Westbury, where the old trackbed, we are told, hides so many vital cables that would cost a 7 figure sum to move ...

I look, sadly back with hindsight, and wonder how different things woful have been if people at formative days had been somewhat more helpful - both in looking for a practical way to work the Minehead line alongside the main line, and for a way for buses and trains to work together rather than the trains being regarded as competition to the buses that risked putting them and their drivers out of business.  But that's another chapter in the same story.

 

The GWML between Cogload and Norton Fitzwarren Junction (NFJ) was upgraded in the 1930s to four roads.  The Up and Down Mains, and the Up and Down Reliefs.  So up until the closure of Norton Fitzwarren Junction Signal Box (1969?) there were four lines from there from/to Taunton.  The main lines were in the centre, and the relief lines were on the outside; in line with GW practice

After the the closure of NFJ, things changed a bit.  The Down Relief was abolished between Silk Mill and NFJ.  .The Up Relief line between NFJ and Silk Mill became a part of the token-worked single line.  The 'box at Bishops Lydeard was taken out at the same time, so the single line was a long section, from Williton to Silk Mill.

So, when the present WSR came into being, there was a line that could have been used exclusively by WSR trains - the old Up Relief.  The Taunton end would have been in the west-end bay (Platform 8 as was).  The connection at Silk Mill would have been retained, to be used for any through trains and stock moves

The management at BR(WR) Bristol Division wanted a ransom amount of money for the use of this two and a bit miles of track.  They wanted to add part of the signalmen at Silk Mill's wages.  They wanted big money to inspect any rolling stock using the line.  They insisted on all staff being qualified in BR Rules.  It was massively unreasonable, and too much for the penniless, fledgeling company.  So the Up Relief etc got ripped up as part of the 1985 remodelling and resignalling, and signal posts and location cabinets were planted along its length

 

Really good to see the effort has been made to list the connections to and from the buses.  The question, as always with these sorts of services, is how long the bus will wait for the incoming train if late?