Thanks, TonyN.  [Image from here is not available to guests]

Having added those, we are now up to 44 of 40 - so clearly a few of them are just 'red herrings'.  [Image from here is not available to guests]

Can we identify them?

 
I'm posting here my own personal opinion - not as an administrator, and not representing any official view from the Coffee Shop forum:

As Mark Hehir has been so well supported by members of the public and politicians of all parties, it would be good to see him return to his skilled role as a qualified bus driver - but not with Metroline. 'Other bus company operators are available'.

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I Think there are some in Reply 23 by plymothian that you have missed.

 
You must mean HS2: the reopening of the Portishead Line to passengers has only ever been 'just three years away' ... for about the past 30 years.




On that basis, actually, you may be right.  [Image from here is not available to guests]

 
With my thanks for your post, eightonedee, I rather think you have hit the whatsit on the proverbial there. [Image from here is not available to guests]

There are possibly three clues combined into one there: there is a railway station at Barking (which is what the dog is doing); there is one at Riverside (which is where the dog is standing); and there is one at Barking Riverside (combining those two clues).

Derby and Poole I will also add, as they are both absolutely plausible.

 
Unless I have missed them, or haven't worked out the connection with answers listed, there's still the football game and swimming pool on the hill in the upper right.

Are they Poole (no explanation needed) and Derby (the footballers are in red and blue, so could be Man U v Man City or Liverpool v Everton)?

And the barking dog is I think Barking Riverside (a Plymothian/Oxonhutch joint effort!).

I'll stare at the picture a little longer.....

 
I have very fond memories of times around there when my kids (now in their 40s) were little, including walking up to the foot of Start Point lighthouse at the very moment the foghorn was tested, and dinner at the pub. It is going to cost a lot more to fix than the local council has. As yet, no word on how it will be achieved, but Slapton Ley ticks every conservation box there is. If that is breached, then - well, I don't know what will happen for sure, but it would be extremely sad.

 

I remember the days when it would only cost £20 billion and take 30 years.

 
172002 had brakes locked on at Liskeard. This fault a couple days after it had door interlock issues, also at Liskeard

Today the rescue unit sent wrong road from Plymouth was coupled up to 175002 and the brake problem transferred to the new unit. [Image from here is not available to guests]

Subsequent major disruption in Cornwall.

 

Dumped in the Yard at Liskeard

 
Failed 175 only recently disappeared from Traksy - not sure where the unit has gone. The 17.50 Penzance - Paddington is formed of 150238 (2 car). Lost 30 minutes or so en-route to Plymouth but still going on! Lost no more time to Totnes. How far will it reach before being relieved of its long distance outing? Or maybe there was a swap of trains at Plymouth?
Presumably off the Falmouth branch shuttle but good bit of initiative!

 
Network Rail in this post on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15YBCJtScht/ have stated that the bridge works at Oxford are on schedule and the new bridge is now in place. There is a video taken from a drone at that link.

The new bridge that will hopefully lead to a Platform 5 is not yet in place.

 
The absolute *joy* of waiting at Kemble in the 80s, when the single track section to Swindon would tend to provoke fun and games.

But also the *joy* after walking four miles to the station in the '82 snow and within a day or five of the thermometer hitting minus 18C up there, when it was necessary to leave the lane as that was choked to hedgerow-depth with snow, and make ones way through the fields alongside - to Kemble Station, and in swept the London-bound HST from the Sapperton direction, with a decent collection of sticky snow on the front end and also between the carriages, passengers... ok, me...  once aboard, rocking up to the buffet for something to thaw them out.

Mark

 
With my renewed thanks to all Coffee Shop members who have contributed here, I've at least tried to update my previous post with a full list of all those railway stations.

If I have missed any, please do post here, and I'll complete the 40. [Image from here is not available to guests]

 
From the BBC:


Second only to HS2 - or possibly the Portishead Line reopening to passengers ?  [Image from here is not available to guests]

 
There are too elements to this, TfL has a policy of electric buses, and built to non-standard TfL bus standard (the standard in EU rest of UK is apparently not acceptable to TfL).   The cost of the charging infrastructure, and more expensive buses has pushed bus costs up.

They were aiming for 100% electric fleet by 2030 (mayor aspiration) or   2032-34 (dates seem to vary over time).  However the latest Business plan (which was draft until ratified by today's TfL Board meeting) refers to target of 6000 electric buses by 2030 with no final cutover date.

The second element is fares revenue (which TfL Finance reports show is about 8% below budget for buses.  Usage figures have fallen drastically (especially in central London where roads have been blocked for low traffic neighbourhoods, forcing cars and vans onto bus routes), causing congestion and slower buses.  TfL have inadvertently made bus travel diabolically slow.

Of course in last few years, have seen extended East London line, extended DLR, Elizabeth line, improved signalling on Victoria, District, Circle, Met and H&C lines allowing higher frequencies.  These alternatives are going to attract former bus passengers.

Pre-pandemic buses were losing around £1 - 1.5m per day, (and could be covered by a surplus on the tube), but in recent months bus losses has jumped to nearer £3.5m per day.   Clearly London buses losing over £1bn a year (and rapidly rising) is not sustainable so cuts are inevitable.

 

9 minutes late off Swindon (17:44), maintaining connection from the 16:33 Paddington to Cheltenham Spa train.   Had it set off on time at 17:35, it would have got in the way of the Bristol and Taunton train due to leave Swindon at 17:22, but didn't leave today until 17:36.   The delay looks like a sensible call.

 
After our - fury - at the breaking of the 205, another batch of routes may be in for re-organisation

from The Standard


I was - many years ago - a user of the 19 and 38;  don't know the other routes.  If developments like the Elizabeth Line and the turning of the Overground lines into metro-frequent routes have abstracted traffic from the buses, so reviewed might make sense.   The lack of an appropriate decision on the 205, and the lack of any comment about passenger needs in the comment above, mean I am concerned.  It could be that only a snippet of what Ms Mann said has been quoted - I certainly hope so.