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First West of England

First Bristol have two depots Lawrence Hill and Hengrove First Somerset & Avon for four deports Marlborough Street, Bath, Weston and Wells

They are legally two different companies, they both operate different service with different buses.

Mark999 (talk) 22:08, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

September 2014

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August 2015

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Bradford-on-Avon railway station. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Charles (talk) 08:57, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

FGW/GWR image captions

Hi. Thanks for changing some FGW to GWRs, however please don't always change captions. If it's an FGW train in eg 2012, it's still an FGW train, not a GWR train, and it shouldn't be called GWR. -mattbuck (Talk) 22:21, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

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December 2015

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at User talk:Redrose64. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. VKZY^LUFan (talk) (Mind the Gap!) 14:03, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Don't take things personally, if someone reverts you it's probably because they simply thought the previous version was better. The way wikipedia works is WP:BRD - make a Bold edit, it gets Reverted, you go to the talk page and Discuss it. Your change to Avonmouth railway station wasn't an improvement to the article as it made the routebox harder to understand. It's exactly this sort of situtation templates like {{rail line one to three}} was designed for. That said, some people do prefer to use the vanilla template, but with the different options on different lines, eg:

Terminus
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Let me know if you need any help with editing station articles, I've been slowly working on improving Bristol area station articles and am always happy to help others apply the same logic. -mattbuck (Talk) 17:37, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

GWR carriage photo

Hi, in order for me to be able to upload your photo to Commons from Flickr could you change the licensing to allow for commercial use and modifications? This is the level we need in order for photos to be used on Commons for use on Wikipedia. Once that's done, if you can add a link to my talkpage I'll upload the photo for you. Thank you very much. Cloudbound (talk) 16:55, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

How do I do that? Merlinhst7 (talk) 17:13, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

You need to edit the sharing settings for the photo, and change from the current 'All Rights Reserved'. Cloudbound (talk) 17:26, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

What do I change it to? Merlinhst7 (talk) 19:41, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

It needs to change to one that allows commercial use and modifications. Cloudbound (talk) 19:48, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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Edits to referenced text - Nailsea and Backwell railway station

Re your edit here, you modified text which was referenced, but without modifying the reference. As it is, it seems it's the X8 not the X6 which goes via NLS. I've modified the text and references. -mattbuck (Talk) 21:28, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

I was looking on Google Maps and it says X6. (Merlinhst7 (talk) 21:34, 15 September 2016 (UTC))

I used Google Earth and that linked me to the traveline website, which shows the X8 and 88A/C. -mattbuck (Talk) 23:16, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

The TravelWest Buschecker app shows 88A towards Portishead/Clevedon and 88C towards Nailsea. (Merlinhst7 (talk) 20:45, 18 September 2016 (UTC))

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Summer rail services

Please stop adding summer rail services to the routeboxes: not only are they not presently running, the stopping pattern was the same and they were not frequent enough to justify a separate entry. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:04, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Yes, they are not running at present but not all the summer special services have the same stopping pattern as the regular services. For example: on summer Saturdays some of the InterCity services in Cornwall run to Newquay but do not stop at the stations between Par and Newquay. Services that run only in the summer generally only run on Saturdays with a few running on Sundays. But normal services run on weekdays. The summer timetable runs from mid-May to mid-September which is 4/5 months.

Also if you don't want the summer rail services in the routeboxes then I would suggest that you remove it the routeboxes of all the stations that I have added summer services to (if you haven't done that already). (Merlinhst7 (talk) 23:40, 8 December 2016 (UTC))

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