Author Topic: Didcot  (Read 166692 times)

Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #800 on: 16 September, 2016, 10:44:20 am »
I like the new surreal floor.
It is simpler than it looks.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #801 on: 16 September, 2016, 12:22:48 pm »
Presumably that'll be the tunnel under the platforms. Might be ok at platform level. If you could get there.
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #802 on: 16 September, 2016, 12:27:16 pm »
The station appears to be flooded.

10 miles away we hardly had a drop
A bit further away, we had torrential downpours, flashes crashes & bangs about 6pm yesterday & for a couple of spells in the early hours, water running in the roads, & lots of rumbling in the distance that went on for hours  . . .
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PaulF

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #803 on: 16 September, 2016, 12:28:21 pm »
It is the tunnel Swindon bound trains were OK because I assume they accessed that platform using the gate at the west end.

slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #804 on: 16 September, 2016, 07:20:44 pm »
When I were a Didcot lad ('54-'70) the then severely height challenged, ceramic tiled like public toilets, tunnel to the platforms, dripped and puddled and stank vilely.

The steamy 'buffet', platform fag machines and chocolate dispensers between platform 2 and 3 made the effort to rise above ground worthwhile.

 :)

rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #805 on: 16 September, 2016, 08:10:51 pm »
Apparently changing from the up platform to the down platform this morning just involved a return trip to Swindon.
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PaulF

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #806 on: 16 September, 2016, 10:46:17 pm »
Whatever was on the down platform I don't think that it was worth it.

Torslanda

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #807 on: 17 September, 2016, 11:15:31 am »
How long before people pick up on the fact that if the grids are blocked with silt then the water can't drain?

Anyone else remember when trucks went round with a huge tank of water on the back and a bloody great vacuum cleaner? Not seen one for yonks...
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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

PaulF

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #808 on: 20 November, 2016, 04:28:34 pm »
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[/size][size=78%]"Promoting Didcot Positively": an empty office ???[/size]

Andrij

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #809 on: 20 November, 2016, 04:40:49 pm »
Is their motto "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"?
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #810 on: 20 November, 2016, 04:55:16 pm »
Stereo headless brass taps  :hand:

rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #811 on: 20 November, 2016, 07:31:54 pm »
Does "Promoting Didcot positively" mean they're no longer going to use slogans like "Not As Shit As Swindon", "Fewer Nutters Than Abingdon" and "Because You Can't Afford Oxford"?
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Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #812 on: 20 November, 2016, 11:50:43 pm »
"Luckily only 44 minutes to London"
It is simpler than it looks.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #813 on: 09 March, 2017, 03:33:35 pm »
I've just read that Didcot's population in the 1841 census was 181.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #814 on: 09 March, 2017, 06:57:10 pm »
But there's nothing else to do in Didcot, so they bred and bred.
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slope

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #815 on: 09 March, 2017, 07:15:53 pm »
But there's nothing else to do in Didcot, so they bred and bred.

They had cows and marshes down the original bottom end. Perhaps they wanted to rise above the land and themselves? My emigrant Welsh mam and Welsh dad started low, during the war, she down in the army camp and him in the railway hostel. By 1954 the higher level town was in full Council House swing - with lots of breeding - still in evidence today

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #816 on: 29 March, 2017, 12:45:45 pm »
Didcot is the acme of normality.
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The small town, situated 10 miles south of Oxford and known for its railway museums and power stations – one of which collapsed last year – was found to be the median across 11 key metrics, including age distribution, ethnicity, employment type and political engagement.
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caerau

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #817 on: 29 March, 2017, 04:39:31 pm »
Damned with faint praise.  :-D
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rogerzilla

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #818 on: 03 April, 2017, 08:28:26 pm »
Didcot is the acme of normality.
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The small town, situated 10 miles south of Oxford and known for its railway museums and power stations – one of which collapsed last year – was found to be the median across 11 key metrics, including age distribution, ethnicity, employment type and political engagement.
Swindon used to be the most average town in Britain but, with a bit of effort, we have managed to sink lower into scratterdom.  We still haven't quite got over winning the SW teenage pregnancy crown for a year, then losing it back to Bristol  >:(
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caerau

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #819 on: 03 April, 2017, 08:39:55 pm »
The trouble with being 'normal' is that you stand no chance of getting to be the next city of culture.  You've got to be down in the proper shit-hole domains for that.  :-D


Not that we're likely to get many more cities of culture in the near future I suppose.



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Re: Didcot
« Reply #820 on: 05 September, 2017, 12:03:38 pm »
Jolly OCC start charging for each item of 'DIY waste' from 1st Oct.  https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/charges-non-household-waste

Apparently this includes timber - fence/shed etc.

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #821 on: 05 September, 2017, 12:30:07 pm »
Jolly OCC start charging for each item of 'DIY waste' from 1st Oct.  https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/charges-non-household-waste

Apparently this includes timber - fence/shed etc, which they recycle...

Cue an increase in fly tipping  :-\
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Re: Didcot
« Reply #822 on: 05 September, 2017, 12:45:24 pm »
Time to get rid of the pile of rubble in t' garden.

I reckon that'll be... 10 trips...

Or maybe I should just turf it and have a small, unexplainable hillock in the middle of the lawn.

Re: Didcot
« Reply #823 on: 05 September, 2017, 01:56:16 pm »
Apparently under the existing "DIY 1,2,3 free", we're allowed 3 items of DIY waste a month free.  I notice that fence/shed panels are not on the current list, but are after 1 Oct.
Cycle and recycle.   SS Wilson

Jaded

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Re: Didcot
« Reply #824 on: 08 September, 2017, 07:09:49 pm »
I went through Didcot yesterday. I didn't notice until we reached Cholsey.

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