Comments on: Look! No Car!

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:08:54 +0000

Steve: Yes, it would have done. But my last visit to Cockwood I didn't see an entire set in the old livery; the best I could manage was this one, with just the leading power car in green and gold: http://kalyr.fotopic.net/p6357391.html

By: Martyn Read

Martyn Read — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:26:27 +0000

She should have been able to do Bovey Tracey to Cockwood with just one change, as the 85A runs from Newton Abbot all the way to Exeter, there was no real need to take the bus to Teignmouth, train to Starcross and then manage to not find a bus to take you onwards.

The 85A runs half-hourly Newton Abbot-Teignmouth-Dawlish-Exeter and the 85 runs half-hourly Torbay-Shaldon-Teignmouth-Dawlish-Exeter, giving Cockwood it’s 15min service Mon-Sat.

It does drop to half-hourly then hourly after 6pm, but there is an hourly service through till 10 or 11 at night.

While lots of places in Devon do have lousy services, Cockwood isn’t one of them.

By: Stephen Karlson

Stephen Karlson — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 03:42:45 +0000

Wouldn’t these look better in the old First Great Western green and gold?