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Title: Thurs only FRGT Westbury to Weymouth Post by: bradshaw on February 01, 2018, 09:46:51 Have just noticed this on RTT. It is a ‘Q’ path to run Dec 2017 to May 2018
The route is Westbury to Weymouth direct then return and on to Melksham and Thingley jct before returning to Wesybury. Timed for a diesel loco. Can anyone give more information? Title: Re: Thurs only FRGT Westbury to Weymouth Post by: grahame on February 01, 2018, 16:26:39 Have just noticed this on RTT. It is a ‘Q’ path to run Dec 2017 to May 2018 The route is Westbury to Weymouth direct then return and on to Melksham and Thingley jct before returning to Wesybury. Timed for a diesel loco. Can anyone give more information? That's the Network Rail monitoring train - on a 6 week cycle, so runs once ever 30 (Monday to Friday) days. It takes priority over passenger trains - so this path is why GWR cannot use the unit that's parked in the bay at Swindon fro 16:24 to 17:54 to provide a 16:36 Swindon to Melksham and a 17:19 Melksham to Swindon (and Cheltenham Spa). For reader information - the monitoring train, when it runs, passed Melksham at 17:07 northbound and returns at 17:38 southbound. That's in the gap in services between the 16:37 passenger service to Swindon and the 18:03 passenger service to Trowbridge. Can't imagine anyone would want to joint or leave trains at Melksham between 17:00 and 18:00 though ;) ... can you? 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 |