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    Bristol Airport open "multi faith area" in car park - looks like a bus shelter

    That would more likely get used as a toilet whilst people are waiting.
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    Bristol Airport Expansion

    The fares on the A3 Airport Flyer from Weston are reasonable at £7 return. This isn’t much more expensive than what Bristol Airport charge to park for 10 minutes and this is a service contracted to First by Bristol Airport. The A1 Airport Flyer is more expensive at £15 return, but still far...
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    GWR Cornish Night Riviera Sleeper and GWR Class 57 updates from Long Rock

    The seats wouldn’t really make much difference as they don’t have the First Class seats
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    Paying for Fast Track Security

    If you want to go Fast Track at Bristol, register for their newsletter and you regularly receive emails with discounts for that as well as parking and the lounges
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    Bristol Airport Expansion

    They should have developed Filton as Bristol Airport, it is in a much better location. It wasn’t as high up to avoid the weather problems, had a much longer runway and if it was open now is a few minutes off of the motorway on a dual carriageway and has a train line running alongside.
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    Airports where you can take a shortcut to avoid duty free shops

    At Bristol you can avoid Duty Free by going through a door off of security, though it takes you to a corridor where you either have to go up the stairs or take the lift to the mezzanine floor. TBH there, it is quicker to go through the Duty Free as it comes out where most of the inadequate...
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    Tui or Jet2

    I’ve been on both a TUI 737-800 & a 737-MAX8 and noticed hardly any difference. The only differences I noticed were the seats were chunkier on the 737-800 and the screens folded out of the ceiling and showed the map and on the 737-MAX8 there were USB ports in the seats.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    They have had that on the destination for some time, it happened before 03/09/23. I think it appeared a similar time to the X1 started displaying ‘X1 Weston-super-Mare/Bristol Direct via A370’. The X1 now shows that until it reaches Sainsbury’s in Worle before changing to ‘Searle Crescent via...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    With the changes to the X1 in Weston going to The Bournville and the X5 presumably going though Congresbury, Yatton & Kenn again will more deckers be required? Some will be saved when the 20 decreases for the winter, but will there be enough? Weston already has the E400MMC from Cymru and the...
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    Tui or Jet2

    When I went on a TUI 737-800 it had drop down screens which showed a safety video and then a map. However, their 737-MAX8’s don’t, they do have USBs in the seats though. I like having the map to see your progress, though the entertainment isn’t relevant when you have your phone. I think they...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    I counted it, am not the best at maths lol They would need them for the 3, 51 and A3. Also the X8 unless that transfers back to Bristol. The 3 can run with deckers as it did through COVID, though the loadings probably wouldn’t warrant them. Not sure if the 51 could take deckers, doubt the...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Weston has a visitor in E400MMC 33482 from First Cymru which had been out and about today on the X1 and X5. In other news I heard from a reputable source 3 electric busses have been ordered to replace the 2 E200MMCs 67107/8 on the A3, however it looks like more electric busses may be coming to...
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    Class 43 disposals

    I just seen a heavily stripped GWR powercar on the M5 heading north between Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon. Couldn’t see a number, but all the doors seemed to be missing.
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    SWR Repaints and Refurbishments

    If not plugs USB sockets, GWR have fitted USBs to 158s so it should be possible on 159s
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    Bristol airport bus services

    They were originally sent down to the Coach Park during Covid when a marquee was erected across the forecourt and have never gone back up. They are supposed to be going back up on the forecourt alongside the A3, but no date has been set. At one point pre-covid the A1 was every 10 minutes, I...
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    Are those seats pictured the seats on GWR HSTs? The First Class seat looks like it, the Standard Class looks similar just with different cushions and head rest like on the TFW 158s.
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    Class 37 Heart of Wessex 2000s

    Didn’t FGW use HSTs for a summer Saturday service between 2014 & 2017?
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    Train movements in through stations with bi directional platforms

    There is usually 1 train an hour from Weston-super-Mare which does this
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    Tui or Jet2

    I have flown with TUI twice in the last few years to Turkey and haven’t had a problem. Both on the 737/8 and the 737 MAX 8 the seats were fine and the flights were on time. Only problem was last year it was originally scheduled for a Dreamliner and they then changed it beforehand to a MAX 8. As...
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    Why not just sit in the back cab where the corridor connection isn’t needed? That would allow anyone, including them to pass through the train. That’s what GWR guards do.

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