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« on: November 12, 2012, 07:07:00 »

The 07:04 Reading to Redhill has been cancelled this morning- the reason given:

"This train has been cancelled because of congestion caused by earlier delays"

As we're nearly at the beginning of service, how can this be? Nothing else has been cancelled.


Not happy. I'm now driving to Guildford.
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« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2012, 07:44:52 »

Now JourneyCheck says

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This train has been delayed at Reading and is now 25 minutes late.
This train will no longer call at Wokingham, Crowthorne, Sandhurst, Blackwater, Farnborough North, North Camp and Ash.
This is due to congestion caused by earlier delays.

Which is good-as cancelled for Wokingham, Crowthorne, Sandhurst, Blackwater, Farnborough North, North Camp and Ash.  Isn't there another one half an hour later - or rather (this morning) 5 minutes later, though? 
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« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2012, 09:21:11 »

The next one is a bit cosy at the best of times. With the extra loading today I'm sure people will have been left behind. Decided not to risk that.
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« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2012, 09:28:18 »

The previous working of that train (05:31 GTW-RDG(resolve)) arrived 27 mins late, so with a very tight turnround your train departed 25 mins late from Reading.  It still ran, but didn't stop between Reading and Guildford where it recovered some time and left 15 minutes late.
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« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2012, 10:02:48 »

...and it was still playing catch-up on its next working too...

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08:33 Redhill to Reading due 10:01
This train has been delayed at Redhill and is now 16 minutes late.
This train will no longer call at Wanborough, Ash, North Camp, Farnborough North, Blackwater, Sandhurst, Crowthorne and Wokingham.
This is due to congestion caused by earlier delays.
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« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2012, 10:31:29 »

The interesting question is why was the (05:31 GTW-RDG(resolve)) late arrivng at Reading?

Surely there weren't that many passengers crowding on to the train at Gatwick or any where else.
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« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2012, 10:37:25 »

There was engineering work all day on Sunday with buses between Guildford and Gatwick Aiport.  Perhaps it was an unplanned knock on effect from that?
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« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2012, 10:48:39 »

The interesting question is why was the (05:31 GTW-RDG(resolve)) late arrivng at Reading?

The ECS (Empty Coaching Stock) from Redhill was late so it left 7 minutes late from Gatwick and then lost another 15 minutes en-route to Guildford.  Not sure why, but low rail adhesion is the usual reason this time of the year on that route?
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