Good to see named trains making a return.

And not a huge difference in price either. Wonder if they sell many of these via Southampton fares? After all the service via Andover is very good.

150s, 155s, 156s and 158s?

Even the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) are reporting the line between Westbury and Swindon is closed:

Westbury to Swindon railway line closed due to flooding
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-68693214

Which station, Euston or Waterloo, would make for the best temporary London terminus for GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) IC^▸ (Inter City) services when the route into Paddington is closed for HS2^▸ (The next High Speed line(s)) related work?

Could they end up using both?

I know which one I’d prefer and it certainly isn’t Euston.

A month?!?! That’s ridiculous, why? They’ve only recently replaced track and switches at Westbury.

I’m not surprised it generated great interest and questions. To me, that seems a long time to have Westbury closed with all the implications for both those who travel from/connect at Westbury as well as those who are on trains that travel through Westbury from the south and Frome/Weymouth.

What benefit are passengers going to see from this major inconvenience? Not much I’d say without this massive opportunity being taken to reinstate a fourth platform.

Too right they ‘may vary’. There’s no way you could operate the current 3 trains an hour to Bath and services to Swindon at the same frequency without trains continuing towards Westbury and reversing there.

I’m not impressed, this seems to have come from nowhere. I understand closing a line for a week or two maximum, but a month? This isn’t going to be very popular.

Not been a good week on the Berks and Hants.

Sigh, so so disappointing both this and the WSR connection at Taunton are not used but totally understandable as running train services is so darned expensive. Heritage railways are having a job keeping going as it is. Couple this with councils struggling financially too it’s a case of oooooz gonna pay for it? No one 

With SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) down as running a pretty normal Sunday service, journey planners are showing Cardiff-Bristol-Bath to London via Salisbury for Waterloo and South West to London changing onto SWR services at Exeter for Waterloo.

I wonder what, if anything SWR will do, particularly at Exeter to manage this? Am I right in saying they cannot running anything longer than x2 159s between Exeter and Salisbury?

Or that it even ran at all. Next Sunday it won’t be.

Journey check has now been updated to include the 1635:

I can assure the person writing this that the train was full and standing when it left Paddington.

Another poor customer experience for those aboard the 1635 Paddington to Plymouth 5 vice 10 and absolutely rammed according to my wife who’s on the train. First declassified. Not listed on JC as being short formed.

I do too.

I would imagine London bound passengers were encouraged to change at Bath Spa for the half hourly Paddington services.

This!

The only App I have that I have to login every time I want to access my rail tickets. Very annoying.