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Title: Crystal Ball Post by: grahame on December 13, 2019, 06:01:31 Posted 10 hours before the train starts ...
Quote 15:28 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 16:52 Facilities on the 15:28 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 16:52. This is due to a fault on this train. Will be formed of 2 coaches instead of 3. Service full and standing. Last Updated:13/12/2019 05:28 Not sure I've seen "full and standing" half a day ahead before ... though I'm sure it will be a correct forecast for (??) some or all of the route. Title: Re: Crystal Ball Post by: bobm on December 13, 2019, 06:21:25 That’s the GWR service which calls at Winnersh to pick up schoolchildren so from experience I expect it will be busy!
Title: Re: Crystal Ball Post by: Adrian on December 13, 2019, 22:22:33 A good idea to give people a heads-up when it's known in advance a service will be ram packed.
A train you can't get on might as well be a cancelled train - in fact it's worse because it may be too late to change plans. When is this going to be added to the valid reasons for claiming delay repay? Title: Re: Crystal Ball Post by: Surrey 455 on December 13, 2019, 23:58:42 A good idea to give people a heads-up when it's known in advance a service will be ram packed. A train you can't get on might as well be a cancelled train - in fact it's worse because it may be too late to change plans. When is this going to be added to the valid reasons for claiming delay repay? GWR's sister company SWR has this on their Delay Repay claim form Quote Please note, in order for an overcrowding claim to be processed, when prompted to choose a delay reason you must select "Decline to give a reason". I've not noticed it before and I wonder if it's just for the duration of the RMT strike. ??? Title: Re: Crystal Ball Post by: PhilWakely on December 14, 2019, 06:57:29 A good idea to give people a heads-up when it's known in advance a service will be ram packed. That'll be 80% of the Sunday services from PLY-PAD then ;) Title: Re: Crystal Ball Post by: eightonedee on December 14, 2019, 22:08:47 Quote Posted 10 hours before the train starts ... Quote 15:28 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 16:52 Facilities on the 15:28 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 16:52. This is due to a fault on this train. Will be formed of 2 coaches instead of 3. Service full and standing. Last Updated:13/12/2019 05:28 Not sure I've seen "full and standing" half a day ahead before ... though I'm sure it will be a correct forecast for (??) some or all of the route. Naive query from passenger on this line for 18+years, and who traveled back from his office party on an almost empty 3 car turbo late that evening - how come someone could not have ensured that a 3 car unit was not rostered for this service, especially bearing in mind that it was going to be even more busy with the SWR strike? 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 |