Good news! The Railway has again broken through the 200000 passenger barrier. This news came to me via the blog of The Crier (a local freebie newspaper). It seems the General Manager greeted a chap from Windsor who was taking his family for a trip on the New Year trains and presented them with free tickets in celebration of passing the milestone again. Given it was clearly a pre-planned event it is odd that I can find no mention elsewhere. So what has the Crier got that the rest of the world hasn't? Presumably a man (or woman) in the right place at the right time. Interesting. Going back to the passenger numbers, I am not sure if the 200000+ includes the 700 carried on the Taunton Shuttles (see pic above) operated by First Great Western during the Autumn Steam Gala but, with or without, the Railway is to be congratulated on another good year.
2 comments:
Mystery of the Crier scoop solved. It was not a scoop! I was missed off the circulation list for the WSR's press release :)
How can they have missed you off, Wizard? It's great news for the WSR, especially as 2006 was not generally a great year for tourism in the west country.
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