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Cancellations to services between Reading and Gatwick Airport

Due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time between Reading and Gatwick Airport fewer trains are able to run.
Train services running through these stations may be cancelled. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer Advice
We are sorry for cancellations throughout the day on the line between Reading - Redhill - Gatwick Airport.

Cancelled;

05:31 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 06:58
06:50 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 08:53
07:02 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 08:34
07:20 Reading to Redhill due 08:46
08:51 Redhill to Reading due 10:45
09:01 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 10:25
09:02 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 10:18
10:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 11:51
11:01 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 12:25
12:01 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 13:25
12:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 13:51
13:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 14:51
14:01 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 15:25
15:01 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 16:25
15:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 17:03
16:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 18:02
17:20 Reading to Redhill due 18:55
18:20 Reading to Redhill due 19:53
18:59 Redhill to Reading due 20:35
19:58 Redhill to Reading due 21:29
21:34 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 23:15
23:20 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 00:44
23:33 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 01:07

Loads of them now reinstated - hopefully before too many people noticed!  Next departure currently showing cancelled is now the 18:59 off of Redhill.

Yes I believe they've opened a few more check in counters at Reading Station!

I think it's at t'other end of journey where that particular flavour of unease and panic starts to set in!

Yes - the list now reads:

Now you might ask yourself how those two units fail to get to Redhill so as to not come back - the relevant outward services were in this morning's list as cancelled but now aren't.

I expect further changes to the list!

Perhaps they are practising for the day when the 769s take over the service.......

A day when I am glad I have retired from my commute.

And it did later become a bit less impossible, at least:

But someone's having a bit of fun filling in the explanations (delay attribution codes). The last train back from Redhill shows as:
This service was cancelled due to late arrival of an inbound service (YI)

Which is odd, as that "inbound service", arriving at 18:55, was cancelled:
This service was cancelled due to a problem at the depot (MU).

The earlier ones are all listed as:
This service was cancelled due to the planned train being replaced with a slower train (MS).

The DAPR puts that differently, without really explaining how it could make any sense here:
MS:  Planned underpowered or shortformed service and or vehicle, incl. exam set swaps (abbreviation: ALOC STOCK)