Cancellations to services between Westbury and Weymouth

Due to a shortage of train crew between Westbury and Weymouth all lines are closed.
Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Customer Advice
Due to a ASLEF^» (Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen - about) strike action 1-9 December 2023, the line between Westbury to Weymouth is affected by numerous cancellations. Road transport will not be provided during strike action. Our sincere apologies, for the inconvenience this may cause you.
Southern Railway are conveying passengers via any reasonable route until further notice.

Cancellations to services between Exeter St Davids and Yeovil Junction

Due to a landslip between Exeter St Davids and Yeovil Junction all lines are blocked.

What's Going On:
Train services running through these stations will be cancelled. Disruption is expected until the end of the day on 06/12/23.

What We're Doing About It:
The recent heavy rain and flooding is causing earth to move above the Crewkerne Tunnel and the line is closed to all services on safety grounds.

Engineers will conduct a further daylight assessment of the site on Tuesday and the tunnel will definitely be closed until at least Thursday 7th December.

In addition to this, heavy flooding of local roads is affecting the replacement bus services running between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction.

With further rain forecast in the next 48 hours there is potential that no services will run until the weekend.

Please do not attempt to travel between Salisbury and Exeter on Tuesday 5 or Wednesday 6 December.

Not just the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway). The return leg of today's excursion from Newcastle to Bath Spa ran to time up the GWML^▸ (Great Western Main Line) up to London but hasn't fared so well on the East Coast Main Line and is currently north of York, but an hour and ten minutes down.

Mark

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66354/2023-12-04/detailed

Cancellations to services between Exeter St Davids and Yeovil Junction

Due to heavy rain flooding the railway between Exeter St Davids and Yeovil Junction all lines are blocked.

What's Going On:
Train services running through these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

What We're Doing About It:
Due to flooding in the Crewkerne area we are advising customers not to travel between Salisbury and Exeter St Davids. Disruption is expected to last until the end of the day.
The line through Crewkerne has been closed again. This is because of damage caused by flooding to a tunnel in the area.

Rail replacement bus services running between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction are running but are subject to delays and short notice changes owing to flooding on roads between these stations.

Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Plymouth via Taunton
 
Due to heavy rain flooding the railway between Exeter St Davids and Castle Cary all lines are blocked. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Train services between London Paddington and Plymouth via Taunton and Exeter St Davids may be cancelled, delayed or revised.

Customer Advice
We apologise for the disruption to your journey today.
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Due to heavy rain flooding the railway on this route, and on the alternative routes on the railway network, GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) is advising customers not to travel in this area.
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Network Rail has advised that the lines between Castle Cary and Taunton are flooded and therefore we are unable to run trains on that route.
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Some long distance GWR services between London Paddington and the West Country were diverted on an alternative route via Bristol Temple Meads and Taunton, however that route is now also flooded.
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We currently have no indication of when either of these lines will be able to be reopened and we're having great difficulty obtaining rail replacement road transport today.
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Passengers from London Paddington and Reading are advised to travel to Basingstoke and then change there for SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) services to Exeter St Davids via the West of England route.

South Western Railway are conveying passengers between Basingstoke and Exeter St Davids via Salisbury in both directions until further notice. Arrangements have been made for Great Western Railway rail tickets to be accepted for these journeys.

Cancellations to services between Bristol Temple Meads and Exeter St Davids
 
Due to heavy rain flooding the railway between Bristol Temple Meads and Exeter St Davids all lines are blocked.
Train services running through these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Customer Advice
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We apologise for the disruption to your journey today.

Due to flooding of the railway all lines between Bristol Temple Meads and Taunton are blocked. We currently have no indication of when the lines will be able to be reopened. Our customer advice is not to travel.

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As an alternative we do have the following local bus ticket acceptance agreements in place until further notice to help customers try and complete their journeys: With First buses Bristol, Bath and the West routes: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,19/19A,39/X39,42,43,44,45,Y1,Y6,48,48A,49,70,72,73,75,76,349,D1,D2,X1,X5 & X9 are accepting GWR rail customers until further notice.

Alterations to services between Bristol Parkway and Swindon

Due to heavy rain flooding the railway between Bristol Parkway and Swindon all lines are blocked.
Train services running through these stations will be delayed by up to 20 minutes or diverted. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Trains will not stop at Bath Spa on Thursday 7 December. Customers travelling for the Bath Christmas Market will need to use alternative transport.

Oh my. So anyone trying to use the SW mainline from GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) land to get around there being no long distance trains to London Paddington has been well and truly stumped.

Pnz to Bristol.
Bristol to Southampton.
Southampton to Waterloo.

Not sure of ticketing options!(that's where a person in an office would be useful).

Looking at RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website) for this coming Sunday 3rd of December, from what I can see, the only HSS^▸ (High Speed Services) services that will be operating to/from London is an hourly service Swindon to Paddington and an hourly service North Cotswolds line to Paddington.

There will also be an hourly HSS service between Bath and Bristol along with the usual local and inter regional services. These appear to be running as normal across the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) network. However, what’s shown today on RTT and what actually runs on the 3rd may be two completely different things.

Looking at RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website) for this coming Sunday 3rd of December, from what I can see, the only HSS^▸ (High Speed Services) services that will be operating to/from London is an hourly service Swindon to Paddington and an hourly service North Cotswolds line to Paddington.

There will also be an hourly HSS service between Bath and Bristol along with the usual local and inter regional services. These appear to be running as normal across the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) network. However, what’s shown today on RTT and what actually runs on the 3rd may be two completely different things.