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Title: Cancellation this morning (12/11/12) Post by: adc82140 on November 12, 2012, 07:07:00 The 07:04 Reading to Redhill has been cancelled this morning- the reason given:
"This train has been cancelled because of congestion caused by earlier delays" As we're nearly at the beginning of service, how can this be? Nothing else has been cancelled. Not happy. I'm now driving to Guildford. Title: Re: Cancellation this morning (12/11/12) Post by: grahame on November 12, 2012, 07:44:52 Now JourneyCheck says
Quote This train has been delayed at Reading and is now 25 minutes late. This train will no longer call at Wokingham, Crowthorne, Sandhurst, Blackwater, Farnborough North, North Camp and Ash. This is due to congestion caused by earlier delays. Which is good-as cancelled for Wokingham, Crowthorne, Sandhurst, Blackwater, Farnborough North, North Camp and Ash. Isn't there another one half an hour later - or rather (this morning) 5 minutes later, though? Title: Re: Cancellation this morning (12/11/12) Post by: adc82140 on November 12, 2012, 09:21:11 The next one is a bit cosy at the best of times. With the extra loading today I'm sure people will have been left behind. Decided not to risk that.
Title: Re: Cancellation this morning (12/11/12) Post by: IndustryInsider on November 12, 2012, 09:28:18 The previous working of that train (05:31 GTW-RDG) arrived 27 mins late, so with a very tight turnround your train departed 25 mins late from Reading. It still ran, but didn't stop between Reading and Guildford where it recovered some time and left 15 minutes late.
Title: Re: Cancellation this morning (12/11/12) Post by: bobm on November 12, 2012, 10:02:48 ...and it was still playing catch-up on its next working too...
Quote 08:33 Redhill to Reading due 10:01 This train has been delayed at Redhill and is now 16 minutes late. This train will no longer call at Wanborough, Ash, North Camp, Farnborough North, Blackwater, Sandhurst, Crowthorne and Wokingham. This is due to congestion caused by earlier delays. Message Received :12/11/2012 09:07 Title: Re: Cancellation this morning (12/11/12) Post by: eightf48544 on November 12, 2012, 10:31:29 The interesting question is why was the (05:31 GTW-RDG) late arrivng at Reading?
Surely there weren't that many passengers crowding on to the train at Gatwick or any where else. Title: Re: Cancellation this morning (12/11/12) Post by: bobm on November 12, 2012, 10:37:25 There was engineering work all day on Sunday with buses between Guildford and Gatwick Aiport. Perhaps it was an unplanned knock on effect from that?
Title: Re: Cancellation this morning (12/11/12) Post by: IndustryInsider on November 12, 2012, 10:48:39 The interesting question is why was the (05:31 GTW-RDG) late arrivng at Reading? The ECS from Redhill was late so it left 7 minutes late from Gatwick and then lost another 15 minutes en-route to Guildford. Not sure why, but low rail adhesion is the usual reason this time of the year on that route? This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |