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Topic: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train (Read 4381 times)
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Graham Ellis
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First are looking for pictures for their 2007 calendar .... favourite journeys on their Network. http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=305Some of my favourites involve the Swindon to Southampton service, the cheerful staff and the ability to get home by public transport. When I was taken ill in Oxford and had to come back by train ... my goodness was I happy to see Melksham, and again there's Santa time. Perhaps I should put in a couple of pictures  |
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Lee
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Like them is this your new job?  Here is my favourite quote from Graham's calendar : "First Great Western now provides the lifeline to many towns and villages throughout the West of England. Here's a Westbury to Swindon train leaving Melksham station one day. It looks quiet, so you may be surprised to learn that there's an average of 32 people travelling on each single coach train on this line, and that traffic has grown 8 fold in the past 5 years." Somehow I think that Graham is happy with his current role.  |
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Nick Field
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A photo of mine will be winging its way to FGW..... PS Graham I notice on your website you have a lot of nice pictures of Wiltshire and the surrounding area - reminds me of what a beautiful area I live in.
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Nick Field
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Here is the picture I have entered into the competition:  This was taken from my front garden and shows our train passing on the line in the background. I found it very difficult to get the timing right with the moving train and as you can see it has almost disappeared behind the house opposite. I had several goes and got lots of odd looks from passers but when I was loitering around pointing a camera at the line and when I leaped out of the front door having nearly missed it. I sent it to FGW with a slightly sarcastic comment about how I would be hoping to use these trains or see more of them passing in the future! I am afraid it is not a patch on Grahams calender and somehow I dont think it will win the competition!! |
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Graham Ellis
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Shortlist of 24 goes up later today ....
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Graham Ellis
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Nope - none of our pictures nor anything anywhere nearby in the final 24. Mind you, there's some loevely pictures to see and choose from (link as in my original post), so I can't say that it was a political decision to choose 13 out of 24 pictures of Cornwall (none in Somerset, none in Wiltshire, none in Dorset, none in Hampshire ...)
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Nick Field
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(none in Somerset, none in Wiltshire, none in Dorset, none in Hampshire ...)
Perhaps first still aren't quite used to the fact that they now cover a wider area ! |
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Graham Ellis
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From a railway company's marketing viewpoint, it's natural for them to want to show pictures of their long distance holiday type destinations, in areas where they have the most of the market. There ARE Looe and St Ives pictures, both former Wessex Trains lines, and which still have a usable service from December, but nothing for Newquay which, like Melksham, is set for an off-peak only service as from December (Three trips in the middle of the day by a unit that provided peak services in the Plymouth area, then one mid-evening).
Having said that, the pictures are very fine ones; one or two I question, but that's purely my personal taste.
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Graham Ellis
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From the West ....
Cornwall 6
Devon 1
South Wales 2
Somerset 0
Bristol / BANES 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hereford and Worcester 0
Dorset 0
Wiltshire 0
Hampshire 0
Sussex
Oxon 2
Berkshire 1
London 0
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