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Title: 08:45 Bournemouth - Manchester (Mon Oct 20) Post by: Worcester_Passenger on October 20, 2008, 11:21:18 This train is shown on the CrossCountry website as
Quote This train has been delayed between Bournemouth and Southampton Central and is now 74 minutes late from Winchester.This train will be terminated at Birmingham New Street.It will no longer call at: Reading, Stafford, Stoke-On-Trent, Macclesfield, Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly.This is due to a problem currently under investigation. Did it really omit Reading and run direct from Basingstoke to Oxford via the avoiding line? Title: Re: 08:45 Bournemouth - Manchester (Mon Oct 20) Post by: John R on October 20, 2008, 12:44:27 Apparently so. It saved a massive 8 minutes by doing so, which in the context of a train 1 hr 20 late is not much.
Title: Re: 08:45 Bournemouth - Manchester (Mon Oct 20) Post by: devon_metro on October 20, 2008, 16:40:31 Apparently so. It saved a massive 8 minutes by doing so, which in the context of a train 1 hr 20 late is not much. 10 ;D Title: Re: 08:45 Bournemouth - Manchester (Mon Oct 20) Post by: smokey on October 20, 2008, 17:08:32 It might have saved 8 or 10 minutes but if No platform was available it might have been held for a lot longer.
Title: Re: 08:45 Bournemouth - Manchester (Mon Oct 20) Post by: RdgwestAndy on October 20, 2008, 20:30:35 I've seen a late running earlier service (sometime last week) take the west chord (I think that's its name) from Reading West platform 2 and out onto the GWML, so I know that it has been done before too.
Title: Re: 08:45 Bournemouth - Manchester (Mon Oct 20) Post by: Btline on October 21, 2008, 18:02:20 Trains running that route shouldn't really call at Reading, that's why they built Reading West.
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