Network Rail's list of 'Major Events'

On 26 Apr, 22:03, Mark Morton <m...@bustingmychops.com> wrote:
> Perusing the 'Rules of the Route 2007' last night, I came across Network
> Rail's list of major events - events which may result in changes to the
> times available for possession.
>
> Some seemed obvious, some seemed less obvious, and some events appear to
> be missing.  

Perhaps they don't show the ones that the TOC(s) prefer to ignore.
(Cue the return of long debate about the justification or otherwise of
tooling up to cope with one-day surges in demand).

--
gordon

Mark Morton wrote:
> 5-9 or 12-16 Sep 2007, Nr Colchester, Chappel Beer Festival
> 30 Nov – 2 Dec 2007, Nr Harwich, Dovercourt Beer Festival

Provincial beer festivals now count as 'major events' do they? Yet no
mention of the Great British Beer Festival, the biggest one in the country,
by far, at Earls Court in August. Every year it's mayhem on the Willesden -
Clapham service for much of the afternoon and evening. Moving it from
Olympia to Earls Court hasn't lessened the impact on the overground services
due to the numbers of people travelling from out of town, for whom LUL
services are not really a solution.

In message <QIadnbFuQ_Jd4K_bnZ2dnUVZ8sfinZ2d@bt.com>, Bruce
<ricardiandentures@> writes
>heavyhorses wrote:
>> Good to see they have missed out Cosford after ATW sold hundreds of
>>tickets for trains they knew they conldn't run.
>
>Cosford! Have not heard that name for many a long year. Spent 1959-61
>there as a Boy Entrant (38th entry, Teleg). Amazed the railway station
>still exists.
Exists and is quite well patronised by RAF trainees. The service pattern
is now either all stations to Shrewsbury, or Wellington and Shrewsbury
only, but until quite recently there was the odd train which did
Cosford, Wellington and Shrewsbury. In fact IIRC it's part of the WSM
proposal for their trains to serve Cosford. The Arriva farce to which
Derek referred was in connection with the annual Cosford air show last
year which is, I imagine, Shropshire's largest spectator event (I think
the V fest is just in Staffs but ICBW). Cosford also hosts the Aerospace
Museum, and now the Cold War Exhibition. Sadly it lost out to St Athans
recently as the new site for a national training defence centre.

So there you are. I'll give Ian Jelf his hat back now :-)

Dave
--
Dave Spencer

On 28 Apr, 08:43, Dave Spencer <nos...@message-id.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <QIadnbFuQ_Jd4K_bnZ2dnUVZ8sfin...@bt.com>, Bruce
> <ricardiandentu...@> writes
[...]
> >Cosford! Have not heard that name for many a long year. Spent 1959-61
> >there as a Boy Entrant (38th entry, Teleg). Amazed the railway station
> >still exists.
>
> Exists and is quite well patronised by RAF trainees.

I wonder if the unofficial whistle code for "Assistance by Military
Police Required" still exists there?

R.