Someone on the WNXX^▸ (Stored Unserviceable, Mainline Locos HQ All Classes) forum has said that dragging brakes caused wheelflats on one or more wagons.

It now appears to have moved off as 6Z16 back to Westbury.

Did they manage to stop in time?

Whereabouts did it happen?

I very much doubt it - At some point in the proceedings this morning, the usual sleeper set was swapped out for an IET^▸ (Intercity Express Train). 

The line between Westbury and Theale will be completely closed between Sat 18 Feb - Thu 2 Mar which means no trains will be calling at intermediate stations: Pewsey, Bedwyn, Hungerford, Kintbury, Newbury, Newbury Racecourse, Thatcham, Midgham and Aldermaston. A rail replacement bus service will be in operation.

More details on the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) website:
https://www.gwr.com/travel-information/travel-updates/planned-engineering/newbury

Apparently, this work is essential to protect the ongoing safety of the route and involves relaying life-expired track, replacing lineside equipment and renewing structures. I do realise this sort of work is essential, but I think it is rather excessive to close such a long section of line for such a long time. 

What is the rationale behind this decision? Seems bonkers to me.

In June I went for a trip on one of the Castle sets and thought it was brilliant. They have been refurbished really well and it will be a retrograde step to retire (and presumably scrap) them.

I still think you need to add a separate option for train strikes.

Cracked brackets, lack of crew, floods, leaves on the line, disruptive passengers, scheduling errors, axle counter failure or a cow moo-ving around on the track are all unplanned one-off events which cause disruption that results in an unreliable train service.

That is rather different to having NO TRAINS ALL DAY on strike days because of train strikes which are deliberately planned to cause disruption.

You need to add an option to this poll: Train Strikes

Train Strikes are massively suppressing my train use. My local station (Pewsey) has no trains on strike days and the day after a strike there are hardly any services calling at Pewsey.

I am fed up with these selfish rail unions holding the travelling public to ransom.

It seems the 11:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads today (Sun 14/8/2022) was cancelled "due to overcrowding"

1) Surely this would mean subsequent services would be even more crowded?
2) I wonder whether it was a 5-carriage, 9-carriage or 10-carriage train?

Does anyone know where I can find PDFs of the strike day timetables?

Or perhaps an insufficient number of RHTT^▸ (Rail Head Treatment Train) workings over that stretch of line in the days leading up to the collision?

On Saturday (11th Sep) I travelled by train from Pewsey to Bristol Temple Meads via Westbury.

As my train from Pewsey was delayed by 30 minutes, I missed by intended connection (12:12) at Westbury but there was a train from Weymouth to Bristol (which then went onto Gloucester) at 12:40

However, when this turned up (a few minutes late) it was only 2 carriages and was full and standing. In this day and age, I no longer feel comfortable travelling on crowded trains so I refused to board it. The next train to Bristol was the one from Salisbury at 13:12 This turned up with 5 carriages and had plenty of seating, so I was happy to board that.

It is completely unacceptable to run 2 carriage trains for such a busy route on summer Saturdays. GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) should bring back the "Weymouth Wizard" HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train) or else trains that have an adequate number of carriages for the expected passenger flows.

I agree. It is a crying shame that over 300 High Speed Train (HST) Mk3 carriages have now been scrapped.

These trains were very popular with the travelling public with many years of life left in them. Following refurbishment, some are still in service with Scotrail, Cross Country and GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) as "Castle" sets.

Edit: VickiS - Clarifying Acronym

Building a new station at Lydeway (Devizes Parkway) is a stupid idea.

A far better solution would be to reinstate the branch line into Devizes town centre and extend the Bedwyn trains to terminate there.

Saw this on FB and thought it was quite good (See attached image)

Not really.

According to GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway), Pewsey was granted an exception in 2004 to allow off peak fares on the peak time train to London Paddington after 8am because there was a very limited off-peak service. In the current timetable (pre 15th December) the next train after the 0810 to London Paddington is the 1018 which doesn't arrive into London Paddington until 1121