As the late Eric Morecambe would have said "it's the way you tell them"
This must take a prize for failing to communicate clearly. It starts by saying that they are trying to serve two popular events and then seems to largely be a list of cancellations!
How many would get no further than
All trains between Par and Newquay from 0818 to 1914 are replaced by buses
, assuming that the line has been closed, and you cannot get to Newquay by train?
Then there's
4 extra trains will run from Plymouth and Par to Newquay
. Extra above what? You have just told the confused punters that there are no trains between Par and Newquay. Presumably what they mean to say is that trains will be running all the way from Plymouth to Newquay instead of just starting at Par. For heaven's sake say so, and why not give the departure times as well. It looks like a classic case of railway industry mentality "ooh, no Newquay branch trains today" was clearly at the front of the mind of the person who put this together without giving a moment's thought to how what they had just written looks to the uninitiated in the context of a revised service.
And presumably those trains will go back from Newquay to Plymouth? It's not clear, and not something either the infrequent or experienced traveller could be confident about.
Then there's the confusing list of alterations between Penzance and Plymouth. Surely a simple statement that a number of through services to and from Penzance will be replaced by services between London and Plymouth and between Plymouth and Penzance might give some re-assurance to passengers that this is not a butchery of the time table.
And why are random announcements about a Paignton train and buses replacing trains to Gunnislake buried in the middle of these Boardmaster and Falmouth related changes?
That was my thought as well and I checked the wording on the
GWR▸ site in case the wording was a spoof.