Author Topic: Didcot  (Read 166680 times)

Kim

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #400 on: 25 November, 2012, 01:03:06 pm »
Needs more cooling towers, really.

Re: Didcot
« Reply #401 on: 25 November, 2012, 02:21:15 pm »
"No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everybody on the couch."

Re: Didcot
« Reply #402 on: 25 November, 2012, 02:31:00 pm »

Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #403 on: 30 November, 2012, 09:54:17 am »
Didcot is gloriously sunny and crisp.

A perfect day for a funeral.
It is simpler than it looks.

Andrij

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #404 on: 30 November, 2012, 10:00:02 am »
They've decided to bury Didcot?!?  :o
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #405 on: 04 December, 2012, 07:42:16 pm »
They've decided to bury Didcot?!?  :o
Well they've been trying to cremate it for years ....

rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #406 on: 12 December, 2012, 10:00:43 am »
Just gone through Didcot on a non stopping train.  Muhahaha.  Cooling towers steaming well.
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #407 on: 12 December, 2012, 10:02:35 am »
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

HTFB

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #408 on: 28 December, 2012, 09:48:33 pm »
You think that shows class?  This shows class.
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slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #409 on: 10 January, 2013, 06:44:47 am »
I was reminiscing with myself last night during my Wednesday evening wank with Clive - how many towns can boast a one armed coalman? Les Bailey not only lived in the coal yard (Manor Crescent), he loaded the bags and wagon, and delivered his load one handed into your coal hole. Not only that, he drove the lorry - no syncromesh "crash" gearbox and pre poncey power steering.

PaulF

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #410 on: 10 January, 2013, 07:52:28 am »
I was reminiscing with myself last night during my Wednesday evening wank with Clive - how many towns can boast a one armed coalman? Les Bailey not only lived in the coal yard (Manor Crescent), he loaded the bags and wagon, and delivered his load one handed into your coal hole. Not only that, he drove the lorry - no syncromesh "crash" gearbox and pre poncey power steering.

I think you may want to proofread your post!!!

Re: Didcot
« Reply #411 on: 10 January, 2013, 08:15:01 am »
You think that shows class?  This shows class.

 :facepalm:  Looks like some kind of ulcer.
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #412 on: 10 January, 2013, 08:24:35 am »
I was reminiscing with myself last night during my Wednesday evening wank with Clive - how many towns can boast a one armed coalman? Les Bailey not only lived in the coal yard (Manor Crescent), he loaded the bags and wagon, and delivered his load one handed into your coal hole. Not only that, he drove the lorry - no syncromesh "crash" gearbox and pre poncey power steering.
How interesting.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #413 on: 10 January, 2013, 08:47:53 am »
I have discovered a use for Didcot.

Monthly return from Southend Victoria to Bath Spa: £61.50. No Network railcard discount allowed.

Monthly return from Southend Victoria to Didcot Parkway with Network Railcard discount: £28.80

Didcot to Bath Spa, advance single: £4.

Saving: £24.70.

The above is Plan B. Plan A is to purchase single tickets from Southend Victoria to Bath Spa for £12.50 but they haven't been issued yet for the date I want to travel.
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Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #414 on: 10 January, 2013, 09:05:31 am »
I was reminiscing with myself last night during my Wednesday evening wank with Clive - how many towns can boast a one armed coalman? Les Bailey not only lived in the coal yard (Manor Crescent), he loaded the bags and wagon, and delivered his load one handed into your coal hole. Not only that, he drove the lorry - no syncromesh "crash" gearbox and pre poncey power steering.

I guess there's not a lot else to do on Wedbesday evenings in Didcot.  ;D
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Didcot
« Reply #415 on: 10 January, 2013, 11:39:15 am »
I have discovered a use for Didcot.

Monthly return from Southend Victoria to Bath Spa: £61.50. No Network railcard discount allowed.

Monthly return from Southend Victoria to Didcot Parkway with Network Railcard discount: £28.80

Didcot to Bath Spa, advance single: £4.

Saving: £24.70.
Watch the reaction of the ticket inspector. Absolutely none. It's become more or less standard procedure.

So why, might you reasonably ask, do the train companies persist in their ridiculous pricing structures? I'm not sure anyone knows.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #416 on: 10 January, 2013, 02:11:24 pm »
I think I know: it's so that the reasonable person can be entrapped into paying more for their ticket than they should.
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rower40

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #417 on: 10 January, 2013, 02:27:48 pm »
Be sure, be very sure, that the train stops at Didcot.  Not all Bath trains do.  Split tickets are only valid if the train stops at the splitting station.  If you are on a Paddington to Bath train that does not stop there, you will be charged for a Anytime Single from Paddington to Bath.
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #418 on: 10 January, 2013, 09:55:48 pm »
...during my Wednesday evening wank

Just a run of the mill Wednesday nine o'clock wank?
Those wonderful norks are never far from my thoughts, oh yeah!

slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #419 on: 10 January, 2013, 11:06:58 pm »
Just a run of the mill Wednesday nine o'clock wank?

Yeah, whilst Audrey was out

slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #420 on: 13 January, 2013, 06:47:18 pm »
How many towns can have boasted a dairy known locally as Number Twos and whose humming milk floats smelled of burnt rubber?


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Re: Didcot
« Reply #421 on: 13 January, 2013, 08:22:18 pm »
I think I know: it's so that the reasonable person can be entrapped into paying more for their ticket than they should.

That would be the cynical view. The actual reason is that certain regions have controlled ticket pricing. Around London being one, and the central belt in Scotland being another. Tickets to destinations outside the controlled area are calculated on the basis of miles run for the complete distance, and there are limits for day and period returns etc. This is why there are journey break issues. It is worthwhile looking up the legislation for where the boundaries for the regulated ticket zones are.

This leads to the anomalies as referred to previously. To travel from Dundee to Glasgow, always get tickets to Perth and Perth to Glasgow as it is cheaper.

When travelling for an overnight visit to Stonehaven from Dundee, get tickets from Leuchars as then you can get a return, wheras from Dundee you can only get two cheap day returns, not a period return.

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Feanor

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #422 on: 13 January, 2013, 08:35:47 pm »
<head spins>.

You'd need to get up very early in the morning having sharpened your pencils the night before to figure this out.

Last year, a few of us in ABZ were looking at options to travel to Chepstow for a cycling-related event, and the fares offered by the usual websites looked like we were bidding for the franchises, not a seat on the train.

Is there an opportunity here for a website with knowledge of all this nonsense to be able to do some kind if 'traveling salesman' best-price calculation, or is this NP-Hard?

Even if the calculations were to be NP-Hard, there's a finite number of rail stations in the UK.
Perhaps an effing great rainbow-table could be buit.

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #423 on: 16 January, 2013, 08:52:17 am »
I have discovered a use for Didcot.

Monthly return from Southend Victoria to Bath Spa: £61.50. No Network railcard discount allowed.

Monthly return from Southend Victoria to Didcot Parkway with Network Railcard discount: £28.80

Didcot to Bath Spa, advance single: £4.

Saving: £24.70.

The above is Plan B. Plan A is to purchase single tickets from Southend Victoria to Bath Spa for £12.50 but they haven't been issued yet for the date I want to travel.

This known to Bristolians as the "Didcot dodge". There is also a "Cheltenham spa dodge" and a "Birmingham dodge". I used to be working for a company in Bath who saved tens of thousands by instructing us to do the didcot dodge. Unfortunately, FGW have probably noticed us and now just on train in two stops in Didcot.
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mattc

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #424 on: 16 January, 2013, 01:51:16 pm »
The (so-called) "Didcot" power station is creating serious amounts of snow today.

But none of it is over Didcot  :smug:
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