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Post by 25 quid on Feb 24, 2022 15:49:35 GMT
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Post by struttg on Feb 24, 2022 19:23:32 GMT
Good stuff
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Antski
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Winter is coming...
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Post by Antski on Apr 17, 2022 10:15:14 GMT
Like this a lot, I’ve used similar ones for family tree research. I can just about remember steam trains running along the Somerset & Dorset railway that was at the end of my grandparents garden at Cynthia Road, Oldfield Park near an old brick works shown on that layer. For decades afterwards the disused branch line was pretty much just ignored, until it became the “Linear Park” as far up as Bloomfield, and eventually the cycle path that runs through the Dorsetshire and Combe Down tunnels to Midford.
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Post by gerryhatrick on Apr 18, 2022 13:25:23 GMT
Not only do I remember steam trains I used to collect their names and numbers as a youngster. We would run from one side of a bridge to the other as the train went under to get the smoke and fumes in our faces! Much to the annoyance of parents when blackened children reappeared. The railway embankments used to catch fire with sparks from the trains. On a Sunday the main line was often diverted to the local line near to where I lived and many passenger trains trundled by, All the famous steam engine names were to be seen. Now the line has been taken up (before the metal tracks were nicked!) but they have put large chips of granite or limestone down to grade it, similar to the chipping used on the original line, which are near impossible to walk on never mind cycle along. Miles and miles off track that could be put to good uses as cycleways and paths. Even if there are suggestions to reopen the lines.
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Post by 25 quid on Apr 21, 2022 7:20:35 GMT
Very odd that gerryhatrick, what is their strategy do you think?
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Post by gerryhatrick on Apr 21, 2022 8:37:52 GMT
No strategy but I suspect lack of thought. The thinking is better now and many disused lines are graded to be used for walking and cycling. These are mainly old colliery lines. The one I referred to though was used for freight mainly but also passenger trains. Whether it will be reopened remains to be seen. The cost will be high but there may be sufficient will to do it as it further removes the need for cars. Suspect the cost will outweigh the advantages and at present the country already has a lot to pay for. Although some think money grows on trees!
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Post by 25 quid on Apr 25, 2022 14:54:53 GMT
...a magic money tree 🤣
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Post by struttg on Apr 28, 2022 10:25:14 GMT
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Post by 25 quid on Apr 28, 2022 14:40:11 GMT
Sky seem the good-cops overall! I'd never have guessed... Never been a customer of them.
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Post by struttg on Apr 28, 2022 15:55:38 GMT
I'm with Virgin but thinking about disengaging so all good fuel for my conversation in advance of renewal. Have never been with Sky.
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Post by 25 quid on Apr 28, 2022 18:25:52 GMT
I've been with Virgin, wan't impressed with their bad congestion at peak hours. I only got 1/10th of what I paid for. After I left, I was bombarded with offers; I've done a deal for a friend and got a much better price and higher speed for her. So haggle hard if you fancy staying.
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Post by struttg on Apr 28, 2022 19:56:24 GMT
Yep agree...... I've always haggled with Virgin and some times what your agree turn out wrong, so you have to go back and advise them what was agreed as you can go from pillar to post...hence always do your own audit trail..time person and all that. I never accept any of their annual increases after a contract is agreed, its all a game...its the world we live in....
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Post by Duppy on Apr 29, 2022 5:30:50 GMT
Sometimes haggling with virgin and even threatening to leave doesn't work. On my last renewal the discount they offered still didn't achieve the competitions prices. In the fortunate position that openreach had installed FTTP to the poles in my section of road, I signed up with a supplier offering a cheaper monthly cost and free installation. The next day I received a phone call from virgin asking why they had received a request to transfer the phone number, explaining that their "discounted" price was still too expensive they then came up with a price less than I was already paying. Sometimes just threatening to leave doesn't have the required effect, you actually have to do it to get their attention
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Post by gerryhatrick on Apr 29, 2022 9:05:46 GMT
I have full fibre to my home using You Fibre. Cost is £20 per month. Installed last November and not a single issue. Unlike past experience with BT and EE. No land line now. My mobile cost is £6.49 per month to give unlimited calls, texts and data. That is with Lebara. Again no complaints. Having over the years tried many suppliers, what I have now is the best I have come across. You Fibre even paid my cost of ending my EE contract early. Originally it was BT in the very early 1980s using a dial up modem and download speeds of 75 baud in black and white text!
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Post by 25 quid on Apr 29, 2022 10:34:30 GMT
Absolutely. But that was 75 up and 1200 down! Was that V.21 or V.23? I think V.23... Anyway, gerryhatrick, what is the roaming cost with Lebara? Which network do they use? Do they do WiFi calling (for Apple folk)? You are the Lebara helpline right? 😉 I'm with 3 and pay £6/month for 4GB which is enough for me, but always interested in options...
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