{"id":5017,"date":"2023-06-26T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2023-12-20T09:41:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:41:26","slug":"83-clevedon-and-portishead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/83-clevedon-and-portishead\/","title":{"rendered":"83 Clevedon and Portishead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The scout rolled up to St. David’s in good time for the 0852 to Cardiff, only to find, after carrying his bike over the footbridge, that the train was cancelled.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Announcements put it down to too few trains available but Realtime Trains <\/em>was unclear: “This service was cancelled due to unknown cause (ZX).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the previous week, the departure screen on platform one was out of order. Having no pocket timetable to consult (these, by DfT <\/em>decree, are not printed), he carried his bike across to the middle platform, where two chaps lurked at an enquiry desk. One was able to advise that there would be no advantage in going to Bristol and returning to Yatton. The scout had decided for several reasons not to ride from <\/em>Bristol<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cubicle in the gents was taped “out of order,” which could almost have been expected. The scout finds the station where he once worked an utterly depressing sight.<\/p>\n\n\n

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While waiting, the scout gazed at the scene of general neglect, which did nothing to undermine his claim that the railway is by far the worst managed of all the large estates. +<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

It was deathly quiet until passengers started arriving for the London. The scout let this go and caught the Edinburgh as far as Taunton, preferring to wait for the next Cardiff stopper further up the line. Here, a member of staff was announcing from a handheld radio. He told the scout that the automated system had been out of order for six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An engineer’s train came from Fairwater and waited on the old Down Relief for a London to arrive on the old Down Main. Two locos were seen in Bridgwater yard on a nuclear flask train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, the scout got to Yatton over an hour later than he had planned, time he could have spent usefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yatton<\/p>\n\n\n\n