Author Topic: Didcot (Read 167835 times)

Adam · « **Reply #150 on:** 20 July, 2011, 04:17:54 pm »

Quote from: mattc on 20 July, 2011, 03:18:17 pm

Train tickets to Oxford (from London) are half the price of those to Didcot. Draw your own conclusion ...

I've just checked on the trainline - they're both the same at £21.40 for an off peak single, or £26.00 for an anytime single.

mattc · « **Reply #151 on:** 20 July, 2011, 04:20:14 pm »

Not always ...

(but if you can explain why the 14 miles to Oxford is free, you can have a prize anyway!)

Adam · « **Reply #152 on:** 20 July, 2011, 04:24:33 pm »

Aha - trying for tickets for this weekend, shows a new option of an advance single to Oxford (but not Didcot) for just £4, for a particular train.

Clearly Didcot isn't worth the hassle of trying to invite visitors with the lure of a cheap ticket.

Jaded · « **Reply #153 on:** 20 July, 2011, 04:29:00 pm »

It is similar to the pricing on the Cheltenham line, where getting out of Swindon is nearly free.

Can you see a pattern here?

Frere · « **Reply #154 on:** 20 July, 2011, 09:48:26 pm »

Just stopped @ Didcot on the return train back to Bristol. Gosh, was real glad when the train got moving again. What is it about Didcot that makes it a singularly unappealing place?

Frere

gerwinium · « **Reply #155 on:** 20 July, 2011, 09:52:40 pm »

Lots of concrete, power station, whipping wind that goes straight through the station, and one of the highest charity shop densities in the UK - I lived there for a year

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rower40 · « **Reply #156 on:** 20 July, 2011, 10:05:22 pm »

I went for brekkie in the Sainsbury's there this morning. As I arrived, lotzanlotza alarms were going off, all the Sainsbury's staff were clustered under an "Assembly Point" sign, and all the other nearby shops were being evacuated too.

So I carried on biking onto a different high street, and found a lovely little cafe, "Carera's" (as far as I can remember - but I do recall the upside-down apostrophe) which served me a very tasty breakfast: black pudding, fried tomato, hash brown, two bacon, egg, beans, sossidge and toast. And a lovely cup of coffee.

I will be patronising them again, and shall not bother darkening Sainsbury's door again.

Fab Foodie · « **Reply #157 on:** 20 July, 2011, 10:13:21 pm »

Didcot is now deemed so dangerous to cycle round that the Didcot Phoenix cycle club has had to move it's training nights to nearby Abingdon Barracks ... for protection I can only assume.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #158 on:** 20 July, 2011, 10:34:25 pm »

11 glorious pages!

Let it never be said that Didcot is dull.

Bledlow · « **Reply #159 on:** 20 July, 2011, 11:29:14 pm »

Quote from: mattc on 20 July, 2011, 03:18:17 pm

Train tickets to Oxford (from London) are half the price of those to Didcot. Draw your own conclusion ...

I've not checked lately, but if travelling from Reading to Bristol or Swansea, it used to be significantly cheaper to buy a ticket from Paddington - which they wouldn't sell in Reading. Then they put in barriers at Reading, & you had to find some cheap dodge to get on the platform. Luckily the ticket allowed you to break your journey on the way back, so you had a valid excuse for getting off at Reading.

Indeed, those who decide rail ticket prices in this country have minds which are choodessny and zammechat, but in a bezoomy, grazhny & merzky way, not at all horrorshow.

mattc · « **Reply #160 on:** 21 July, 2011, 09:39:33 am »

Quote from: Frere on 20 July, 2011, 09:48:26 pm

Just stopped @ Didcot on the return train back to Bristol. Gosh, was real glad when the train got moving again. What is it about Didcot that makes it a singularly unappealing place?

Frere

Gotta be the people that live there.

A bit like the cunts in Bristol.

Do come again

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #161 on:** 21 July, 2011, 10:20:35 am »

Quote from: Bledlow on 20 July, 2011, 11:29:14 pm

Quote from: mattc on 20 July, 2011, 03:18:17 pm
Train tickets to Oxford (from London) are half the price of those to Didcot. Draw your own conclusion ...
I've not checked lately, but if travelling from Reading to Bristol or Swansea, it used to be significantly cheaper to buy a ticket from Paddington - which they wouldn't sell in Reading. Then they put in barriers at Reading, & you had to find some cheap dodge to get on the platform. Luckily the ticket allowed you to break your journey on the way back, so you had a valid excuse for getting off at Reading.

Indeed, those who decide rail ticket prices in this country have minds which are choodessny and zammechat, but in a bezoomy, grazhny & merzky way, not at all horrorshow.

oh chin!

Efrogwr · « **Reply #162 on:** 21 July, 2011, 10:06:53 pm »

I lived in Didcot for a while, sharing a house with Francis Bacon's second-favourite rent-boy's boyfriend's brother.
We once visited a pub called The Sprat. It compared badly with The Slaughtered Lamb.

HTFB · « **Reply #163 on:** 21 July, 2011, 10:43:14 pm »

Quote from: Efrogwr on 21 July, 2011, 10:06:53 pm

I lived in Didcot for a while, sharing a house with Francis Bacon's second-favourite rent-boy's boyfriend's brother.

It's not actually posted in the Tenuous Claims To Fame thread, but I think we have a winner.

gerwinium · « **Reply #164 on:** 16 August, 2011, 07:15:21 am »

I went through Didcot by train on the way to Bristol for Exodus on Saturday. Lovely to see the cooling towers of the Daily Mail going at full blast. Just as a treat on the way back from Exmouth, my train got diverted so instead of going through Newbury, it went through Swindon and Didcot again, so double the fun!

deliquium · « **Reply #165 on:** 16 August, 2011, 09:12:31 am »

Quote from: Efrogwr on 21 July, 2011, 10:06:53 pm

We once visited a pub called The Sprat.

WHY IT WAS CALLED THE SPRAT

Efrogwr · « **Reply #166 on:** 16 August, 2011, 09:40:22 am »

It looks like the Sprat hasn't changed much... I'm going to start a Pub Hall of Shame thread.

Jaded · « **Reply #167 on:** 01 October, 2011, 08:54:07 am »

It is sunny in Didcot and there are train spotters here.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #168 on:** 01 October, 2011, 10:40:02 am »

My train went through Didcot at about 100mph. Which was nice.

hellymedic · « **Reply #169 on:** 01 October, 2011, 11:54:10 am »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 01 October, 2011, 10:40:02 am

My train went through Didcot at about 100mph. Which was nice.

Oooh! You may have been on the same train as my David, who was en route to Cheltenham. (09.00 x PAD, Arr Swindon 09.54)

rogerzilla · « **Reply #170 on:** 01 October, 2011, 08:15:32 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 01 October, 2011, 11:54:10 am

Quote from: rogerzilla on 01 October, 2011, 10:40:02 am
My train went through Didcot at about 100mph. Which was nice.

Oooh! You may have been on the same train as my David, who was en route to Cheltenham. (09.00 x PAD, Arr Swindon 09.54)

Nope, this was a Welsh train leaving at 0745, sorry!

rogerzilla · « **Reply #171 on:** 01 October, 2011, 08:16:23 pm »

There may be 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire, but but Didcot's are more dangerous.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-15136278

hellymedic · « **Reply #172 on:** 01 October, 2011, 10:31:37 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 01 October, 2011, 08:15:32 pm

Quote from: hellymedic on 01 October, 2011, 11:54:10 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 01 October, 2011, 10:40:02 am
My train went through Didcot at about 100mph. Which was nice.

Oooh! You may have been on the same train as my David, who was en route to Cheltenham. (09.00 x PAD, Arr Swindon 09.54)
Nope, this was a Welsh train leaving at 0745, sorry!

I'd worked out you must have been on an earlier train when I saw the timestamp of your post-FNRTTS post...

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #173 on:** 01 October, 2011, 11:11:05 pm »

This is a very edumacational thread.

Jaded · « **Reply #174 on:** 10 October, 2011, 10:01:59 am »

Today it is dull in Didcot.

Author Topic: Didcot (Read 167835 times)

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