Apparently, Darling may also have re-announced the DMUP vehicles that have been cancelled...
http://railwayeye.blogspot.com/2009/12/darling-announces-200-earlier-vehicles.html

Despite the Chiltern Railway's Franchise Agreement requiring the process to be completed by 1st December 2009, as of today, there has been no financial sign-off or agreement between DfT^» (Department for Transport - about), Network Rail and Chiltern Railways in relation to any part of Evergreen 3.

None of the parties involved is willing to say when, or if, this will happen.

The Transport & Works Act Order for the Bicester-Oxford (Phase 2) upgrade is also running late and is not due to be submitted now until early January 2010.

...the Government will:
proceed with a ^1.1 billion rail electrification programme for the Great
Western Main Line and Liverpool to Manchester. A further announcement
on electrification will be made shortly, and the Government will also
continue to evaluate the case for electrification of the Midland Main Line
from London to Sheffield;

"Work is now underway on Crossrail, the Thameslink project, and from
this month, the upgrade of the M1. All this work will continue.  So
will the rail electrification programmes for the Great Western Main
Line and the North West announced in July.

"I can tell the House today that I have also given the go-ahead to
further plans for rail electrification between Liverpool, Manchester
and Preston. The SoS for Transport will announce further details
shortly."

Fareham 1054 to Woolston (about 1110 IIRC^▸ (if I recall/remember/read correctly)) on the SN service ex Brighton, which
carried on ECS^▸ (Empty Coaching Stock) down to St Denys to reverse. Waited for the following SWT stopper
at 1124, arrived at St Denys 1130 ish.

Then a leisurely walk over the footbridge to catch the 1134 onward to
Southampton Central failed miserably, because driver and guard of the 159 from
Romsey decided to head off on the normal timings, ie 1131. SWT management
present rustled up four taxis to Central pretty sharpish.
You'd assume the train crew had been advised of the temporary timings - the PIS^▸ (Passenger Information System)
had definitely been changed...

Train movements in up and down directions from Southampton, including a number
of freight services, were basically happening on time, although FGW^▸ (First Great Western) were having
one of their 'bad hair days', with arrivals in both directions around midday
being well off schedule. The 1207 ex Cardiff arriving about 1300, with pax
transferring to the following 1307. 1310 to Cardiff arrived about 17 down ex
Fratton, and the 1410 started at Southampton having laid over for about an hour
in the up goods loop.

You don't normally notice so much how the trains run in directional groups in
the normal timetable, but it is far more obvious with single line working. For
example around 1310 onwards the FGW Portsmouth, the SN Victoria, the XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) Man
Picc and an EWS^▸ (English Welsh & Scottish Railway Ltd, now known as DB Schenker Rail (UK^▸ (United Kingdom))) container train (waiting in platform 4) all left one after the
other as the signals cleared, it all looked pretty efficent to me. Got me
wondering if the normal timetable is already set up to allow for short periods
of SLW?

Returned on the 1412 Victoria service with no issues, and got a reasonable view
of the tunnel, despite the rain covered train windows. There has been a huge
change over the weekend. It is the up line that remains in normal use, but there
is now a big space where the down side ballast used to be, with men working in
it as trains passed. Surprised to see that much of the exposed floor appears to
be concrete slab already - I wonder if this dates from the previous work in
1981? Excavation proceeding at both portals, and a train of engineers trucks
between the east end of the site and Northam Junction appears to be a source of
materials such as precast slabs.

Passed another SN unit between Mount Pleasant crossing and St Denys, sitting on
the down slow, waiting to form the next departure form Woolston, I assume it
followed my train through St Denys, via the crossover to the down fast.

Interestingly enough... When Virgin were in charge... on a good day, you could do Bristol Temple Meads > Newcastle in 4hrs 55mins... Now with AXC^» (Arriva Cross Country - about) in charge... it now takes a minimum of 6 hours

"Because of overrunning engineering work, buses will replace trains between Yeovil Junction and Honiton all day on Monday 7 December.

It is hoped that the line will reopen on Tuesday 8 December, although this is not yet confirmed - please check back nearer to the time of travel."