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Post by Fisch on Sept 17, 2024 13:43:16 GMT
220 miles - Porlock Weir, Somerset Nice place to live as recall. |
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Post by porlockweiro on Sept 17, 2024 14:47:48 GMT
220 miles - Porlock Weir, Somerset Nice place to live as recall. Yeah got here January 2023, and no complaints so far. Some tremendous walks and unbelievable scenery, I work from home and the view from my office window is quite staggering. |
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Post by sammiiii on Sept 17, 2024 16:58:35 GMT
Just outside Sarfffenndddd
About 1hr20mins
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Post by captainhindsight on Sept 17, 2024 17:36:22 GMT
I get the 2:20pm train from Billericay and am in my seat just before 3pm
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Post by redshank on Sept 18, 2024 11:09:13 GMT
Nice place to live as recall. Yeah got here January 2023, and no complaints so far. Some tremendous walks and unbelievable scenery, I work from home and the view from my office window is quite staggering. We live in a beautiful country,know that from my golden age of walking.Often stunned in the beauty of how natural nature presents itself with the arrangements of its bounty. |
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Post by billericayo on Sept 19, 2024 12:26:48 GMT
I get the 2:20pm train from Billericay and am in my seat just before 3pm No time for a drink, wher'se the fun in that |
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Post by kbola on Sept 19, 2024 13:04:06 GMT
Yeah got here January 2023, and no complaints so far. Some tremendous walks and unbelievable scenery, I work from home and the view from my office window is quite staggering. We live in a beautiful country,know that from my golden age of walking.Often stunned in the beauty of how natural nature presents itself with the arrangements of its bounty. This is true. I've walked the length and breadth of England. Some absolutely magical spots you come across and walking there even better as you see more than whizzing past in a car |
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Post by aylesburyos on Sept 19, 2024 13:49:09 GMT
50 miles- Aylesbury, Bucks
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Post by redshank on Sept 19, 2024 14:30:04 GMT
Supporting the O's is one of the reasons I stayed put in beautiful Hainault.plus the fact I have always had fabulous neighbours in our area of the street.I feel I would be letting them down if I ever moved.We band of brothers, all decaying with age and piping trebles.
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Post by billk53 on Sept 19, 2024 17:16:12 GMT
110 miles, live a few miles West of Norwich. Prior to that lived in 'Ainault for nearly 35 years. Must admit I did not find it remotely beautiful except for the Forest!
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Post by redshank on Sept 20, 2024 10:48:37 GMT
110 miles, live a few miles West of Norwich. Prior to that lived in 'Ainault for nearly 35 years. Must admit I did not find it remotely beautiful except for the Forest! Someone has to praise it bilk53,it was a bit of sarcasm on my part but I have been very happy here.The one thing I dislike very much is that I use the ugly Hainault station for my journey to and from Brisbane Road.I often on the home journey get off at Buckhurst Hill station and get the 167 home to avoid Hainault station. As an aside,on the way home from Whipps Cross I noticed and thought of how many Hainault roads streets there are in the district.So many and quite a few Hainault courts or house for block of flats.A lot more to Hainault than meets the eye. |
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Post by Fisch on Sept 21, 2024 1:58:46 GMT
I liked Ainort, my first house purchase was there in Walden Way, right below the back of platform 1 of the station where l worked as a train driver, shortest commute ever. 1975-80.
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Post by Nick312 on Sept 21, 2024 7:58:21 GMT
Supporting the O's is one of the reasons I stayed put in beautiful Hainault.plus the fact I have always had fabulous neighbours in our area of the street.I feel I would be letting them down if I ever moved.We band of brothers, all decaying with age and piping trebles. I sometimes work in Hainault. The customers I have there are amongst my favourite people. We do more chatting than anything else. I hadn't realised that, with you there, it was London's literary outpost. |
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Post by redshank on Sept 21, 2024 11:23:59 GMT
I liked Ainort, my first house purchase was there in Walden Way, right below the back of platform 1 of the station where l worked as a train driver, shortest commute ever. 1975-80. Formerly the Parish of St Francis.Did you ever read the plaque on Hainault Station platform with its Art Deco style waiting room.Sometimes known as A0 |
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Post by Fisch on Sept 21, 2024 13:56:33 GMT
I liked Ainort, my first house purchase was there in Walden Way, right below the back of platform 1 of the station where l worked as a train driver, shortest commute ever. 1975-80. Formerly the Parish of St Francis.Did you ever read the plaque on Hainault Station platform with its Art Deco style waiting room. Sometimes known as A0 I don't recall a plaque but I was aware the old side (plat 1) was the original Great Eastern building from the 19th century and the other side (plats 2 & 3) was re-modelled later and thus was Art Deco in design. I was the train staff manager there in the 1990s when we had guards and returned around 2009 to take up residence in the new building behind platform 3. |
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Post by redshank on Sept 21, 2024 16:35:42 GMT
You might have seen me many times with my heavy toolbag running up and down the stairs when the train indicators were usually wrong,everyone effing and blinding, saying they do it on purpose.I even went into the office on platform 1 and complained,but the practise carried on for quite awhile.
Must admit I liked the trains before the new silver ones were used,the ones we have now are awful and recently had new motors finished.
The Piccadilly Line are getting new trains and they are luxury compared to the forgotten Central Line,the 2030s are proposed for the update.But I do think the whole of Londons transport system is fantastic and soon I will take a trip on the Elizabethan Line.
Did you know they might change the famous London Transport map of the underground with a hideous new design.
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Post by Fisch on Sept 21, 2024 16:55:54 GMT
Those describers could never win. When the signalman put the signal to green for a train to leave plat 1, the describers would then automatically show the next train from plat 3. Trouble is, the driver on plat 1 didn't move his train for a few minutes. All the passengers arriving would see the describer showing plat 3 as the next train so that's where they went - only to watch a train then leave from plat 1. The whole problem was about drivers not leaving on time.
It's always the people.
They won't change the Harry Beck style map, they have intellectual property rights for it.
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Post by captainhindsight on Sept 21, 2024 17:32:27 GMT
I get the 2:20pm train from Billericay and am in my seat just before 3pm No time for a drink, wher'se the fun in that Weekend games i take my 8 year old so it's a get in, get out job. Tuesday night games and occassional away games i go with my cousins and beer is consumed |
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