Darby's Corner Shell - Poole

[crapper]

It's been closed for ages and was my localist local fill-up station for the V-Power juice! Anyone know when it will be open again?

[nick1275]

I can't see it being to long now, at least it's not gone bp or shell like most in the area. I know how you feel it's a PITA filling up else were

[ecain63]

I dont think it will be for a long time mate. BP went on a buying spree apparently, snapping up many of the franchise Shell stations and then closed them down so the motorist is forced to go to the next nearest non-supermarket provider, normally BP. I used to go to Darby's all the time but now i have to go to Pickets Post in Ringwood. Darbys was also one of the busiest stations around.

Eddie

[ecain63]

Just found some info on the station:

Darbys corner, station number 730, closed for refit, due to reopen Nov 2011.

FAIL!!

[nick1275]

There's been some serious building work going on, no excuse tho look how quickly they knocked down and totally rebuilt the bp at at leonards

[Ki3r]

Its either tomorrow at around 10, or Friday at 10. Can't remember off the top of my head. Fleets Corner is better anyway :P (not bias in anyway xD).

[crapper]

Ki3r said:

Its either tomorrow at around 10, or Friday at 10. Can't remember off the top of my head. Fleets Corner is better anyway :P (not bias in anyway xD).

Blimey, that is precise, blooming hope you're right! Cheers all for your input, it was always a very busy station and surprised me it's take sooooo long to open again.

[Ki3r]

crapper said:

Blimey, that is precise, blooming hope you're right! Cheers all for your input, it was always a very busy station and surprised me it's take sooooo long to open again.

Haha inside knowledge xD. The manager popped in to say a few days ago.

Drove past today doing the fuel survey and it was closed still, so guessing it is Friday. It was meant to be November time, but there was a problem with one of the tanks, got contaminated or something, so got pushed back to December, guessing something else went wrong though. Does look rather nice. Christ that is sad that I said that lol.

[Ki3r]

Its open...was dead as I drove past today.

[Burgmeister]

nick1275 said:

There's been some serious building work going on, no excuse tho look how quickly they knocked down and totally rebuilt the bp at at leonards

I actually thought that this was pretty slow. Shopfitting, which this pretty much is, is normally exceptionally swift. Time = Money.

[TheDoggingFather]

Ki3r said:

Its open...was dead as I drove past today.

Business as usual then. No surprises really with Tesco offering 10p off per litre at the moment, when you spend £60, which is worryingly easy to do.

[davey sprocket]

And today they have no Vpower super unleaded at any of the pumps, which was my only reason for going there in the first place!

[Ki3r]

davey sprocket said:

And today they have no Vpower super unleaded at any of the pumps, which was my only reason for going there in the first place!

Think it was in General Gassing, but a few people have said something similar about Vpower at other places.