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I've noticed the following on journey check the last few days? Anyone know what the problem under investigation is?

19:48 London Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill due 22:22
19:48 London Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill due 22:22 will no longer call at Maidenhead.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

Is that the one where they're investigating how a 9 car train that's not had its software updated for selective door opening at Maidenhead has come to be rostered on that diagram?

You couldn't make it up  ::) :-\

GWR have decided to carry on calling the Oxford there instead until the 2nd December when SDO will be updated for Maidenhead.

…...more investigations!

23:01 Oxford to London Paddington due 00:22


23:01 Oxford to London Paddington due 00:22 will no longer call at Maidenhead.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

I'll be interested to see if the 19:48 cancellations continue this week. 
I flagged elsewhere about how the 7.06 Maidenhead-->Paddington (which starts from Worcester) was running as a 5 car IET last week rather than an HST.  That switch was attributed to the software problem mentioned above.
The HST resumed service this morning (thankfully!!) and so I can only assume that last week's change was due to the Hereford-Worcester engineering work rather than the software problem.
I mention this because I thought that the cars for the 19.48 service to Worcester became the morning service that reaches Maidenhead at 7.06 (??)

Update: looks like the 19:48 is back on the menu for this evening.

After a couple of good weeks with the regular HST we are back to the 'not calling at Maidenhead' problem again.

The SDO database on IET’s has now been updated, so 9-car one’s should now be able to stop there.

I was on the 19.48 Tuesday (18th) and it stopped at Maidenhead then. There was some announcement about moving forward for people at the back of the train to alight at Maidenhead though.

Looks like tonight its calling at maidenhead, it is sitting comfortably in plat 2 at Paddington waiting to go.

Interestingly, tonight it's an HST with 9 coaches.

(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/rps20181220_200151_zpsehdilpxg.jpg)

Not an IET?

Funny thing I,ve just noticed that as you were posting.

Also just noticed its going towards Swindon and not through Oxford like they usually do, If 9 coaches it wont fit in Gloucester station. Now finding out it was an IET Will fit just about in plat 2.

Complete brain fade. Of course 9 coaches is an IET.

And going via Kemble is its usual journey.

Wot I thought. I've also got used to seeing them as 10 cars with first class in 1,2 6 and 7, or A,B,I and J, or one from the top two from the middle please Carol.

ODD: I looked on opentraintimes, was listed as a HST.

And stopped at Maidenhead, must of been a converted one.

That would be the timing. All high speed services are currently timed as HSTs.

There was a 9 coach HST going around at some point, though.

Adding to that picture ... many current timings for


turn out to be class 165 or 166

and timings for


Are oft run by 158, 165 or 166 units.

I can't recall when a 155 or 156 last appeared at Westbury - from which I have taken those latest quotes