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Title: SLEEPER VIA MELKSHAM TONIGHT Post by: want2workrail on August 19, 2018, 20:03:50 Is it usual for the Sunday night sleeper to be routed via MELKSHAM?
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C41400/2018/08/19/advanced (http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C41400/2018/08/19/advanced) Title: Re: SLEEPER VIA MELKSHAM TONIGHT Post by: grahame on August 19, 2018, 20:14:21 Is it usual for the Sunday night sleeper to be routed via MELKSHAM? http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C41400/2018/08/19/advanced (http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C41400/2018/08/19/advanced) Not uncommon for it to go via Melksham - we had a thread a long time ago that looked at all the ways it has been. Next station down - Trowbridge - is an interesting one. Sleeper may pass though in either direction. Tonight it's southbound but if the routing is Newbury and Bristol, it would be northbound - both parts of its London to Penzance run. Title: Re: SLEEPER VIA MELKSHAM TONIGHT Post by: martyjon on August 19, 2018, 20:17:23 Is it usual for the Sunday night sleeper to be routed via MELKSHAM? http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C41400/2018/08/19/advanced (http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C41400/2018/08/19/advanced) .... and tonights is also routed via Yeovil too. Title: Re: SLEEPER VIA MELKSHAM TONIGHT Post by: grahame on August 19, 2018, 20:23:47 From this list ... route no. 7 tonight!
Normal routing to avoid overnight engineering work: 1. Exeter, Taunton, Bristol TM, Bath, Swindon, Reading 2. Exeter, Taunton, Bristol TM, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading 3. Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Bath, Newbury, Reading 4. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury / Westbury avoider, Newbury, Reading 5. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Melksham, Swindon, Reading 6. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury / Westbury avoider, Newbury, Reading 7. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury, Melksham, Swindon, Reading Houston, we have a problem 8. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Bath, Bristol TM (loco onto other end of stock), Bath, Chippenham, Swindon, Reading 9. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury , Bath, Bristol TM (loco onto other end of stock), Bath, Chippenham, Swindon, Reading 10. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Bath, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading 11. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury , Bath, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading 12. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Melksham, Chippenham, Bristol TM (loco onto other end of stock), Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading 13. Exeter, Taunton, Westbury, Melksham, Chippenham, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading 14. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury , Melksham, Chippenham, Bristol TM (loco onto other end of stock), Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading 15. Exeter, Yeovil, Castle Cary, Westbury , Melksham, Chippenham, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading All the above should be possible without having to provide additional Traincrew for route knowledge. At one stage it would also have been possible to send the train into London Waterloo rather than Paddington via either Acton or from Reading. Title: Re: SLEEPER VIA MELKSHAM TONIGHT Post by: bobm on August 19, 2018, 20:27:34 I’ll be on it tonight but I don’t propose to stay awake to see which way it goes!
Title: Re: SLEEPER VIA MELKSHAM TONIGHT Post by: grahame on August 19, 2018, 20:37:09 To think ... you could have twice that number of routes if you had "via Totnes" and "via Okehampton" ;D
Title: Re: SLEEPER VIA MELKSHAM TONIGHT Post by: bobm on August 19, 2018, 20:45:09 No wonder it takes an extra hour on Sunday nights!
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