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Author Topic: Four track for Filton Bank - ongoing discussion  (Read 335841 times)
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« Reply #1020 on: November 29, 2018, 13:43:33 »

Are trains actually moving between Filton Abbey Wood to|from Bristol Parkway at the moment?

I have heard several people say the line is not fixed, and GWR (Great Western Railway) web site reports there are still faults with points and buses are available.

How long does it take to repair ponts?

Is this the same issue as yesterday?
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« Reply #1021 on: November 29, 2018, 14:04:47 »

The service I was on this morning, the 8.50 Oldfield Park to Bristol Parkway, terminated at Filton I know that much.

But other than that, based on what NRE(resolve) and RTT» (Real Time Trains - website) are saying, services that terminate at Parkway normally are actually terminating at Filton, but services up to Gloucester and Great Malvern are running through as normal. So probably just thinning out the services slightly to make up for the issue!

NRE does also say tickets being accepted on the 18, 72 and 73 buses, though no idea what bus the 18 is (First certainly don't run an 18 in Bristol), the 72 doesn't even go that near Filton or Parkway, so the 73 is the only really relevant one there.
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« Reply #1022 on: November 29, 2018, 14:33:08 »

The faulty points have taken platforms 2 & 4 out of action

Luckily with the new platform 1 they can still run all westbound thru services using P1, and all eastbound thru services using P3

It's the terminating services (mostly BPW» (Bristol Parkway - next trains)-WSM but also some peak direct BTH» (Bath Spa - next trains)-BPW) they can't run as they involve a layover in P4 which would then block the thru services
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« Reply #1023 on: November 29, 2018, 14:43:25 »

...First certainly don't run an 18 in Bristol...

No. They did, but not any more. Think it went from Lyde Green to Avonmouth, others may know better...
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« Reply #1024 on: November 30, 2018, 18:38:39 »

The faulty points have taken platforms 2 & 4 out of action

Luckily with the new platform 1 they can still run all westbound thru services using P1, and all eastbound thru services using P3

It's the terminating services (mostly BPW» (Bristol Parkway - next trains)-WSM but also some peak direct BTH» (Bath Spa - next trains)-BPW) they can't run as they involve a layover in P4 which would then block the thru services

Is Bristol Parkway back to normal now?
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« Reply #1025 on: December 01, 2018, 10:23:17 »

Hard to say as there's another planned weekend closure at the minute to finish the filton bank works

P4 was back in use yesterday for terminating trains tho
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« Reply #1026 on: December 01, 2018, 10:55:30 »

... there's another planned weekend closure at the minute to finish the filton bank works

Utter chaos at Swindon today ... Add in a Cross Country Train mix, a failed train in the area (from Melksham we arrived in the Swindon area on the down line, then a 5+5 IET (Intercity Express Train) arrived and terminated!), and overcrowding of the Bath service due - I suspect - to the Christmas market. 
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« Reply #1027 on: December 01, 2018, 11:48:08 »

... there's another planned weekend closure at the minute to finish the filton bank works

Utter chaos at Swindon today ... Add in a Cross Country Train mix, a failed train in the area (from Melksham we arrived in the Swindon area on the down line, then a 5+5 IET (Intercity Express Train) arrived and terminated!), and overcrowding of the Bath service due - I suspect - to the Christmas market. 

Looking at Opentraintimes now looks like it has cleared, But there is a 1V48 coming out of plat 1 over points towards Bath.

Now looks like an unusual train now gone into plat 1, 1T12 that has terminated.
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« Reply #1028 on: December 01, 2018, 11:54:58 »

Filton Bank closed again this weekend.

Also what a pathetic bit of signalling that is?, A train from Cheltenham was held on the Kemble line, for the terminated train to leave platform 1. The signalman should of put it in plat 3, then it would of been on time, now their incompetence has delayed it by 10 minutes, No wonder people are fed up with delays, Crikey! if my father had done that in Gloucester panel years ago he would have been told off.
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« Reply #1029 on: December 02, 2018, 12:26:16 »

Filton Bank closed again this weekend.

Also what a pathetic bit of signalling that is?, A train from Cheltenham was held on the Kemble line, for the terminated train to leave platform 1. The signalman should of put it in plat 3, then it would of been on time, now their incompetence has delayed it by 10 minutes, No wonder people are fed up with delays, Crikey! if my father had done that in Gloucester panel years ago he would have been told off.

It’s a bit off topic but if you were held at the signal outside Swindon on the up line there is no route from there into Platform 3, only into Platform 1 or 2 (bay). That’s why you would’ve had to wait for the other one to move first.
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« Reply #1030 on: December 02, 2018, 12:43:33 »

Filton Bank closed again this weekend.

Also what a pathetic bit of signalling that is?, A train from Cheltenham was held on the Kemble line, for the terminated train to leave platform 1. The signalman should of put it in plat 3, then it would of been on time, now their incompetence has delayed it by 10 minutes, No wonder people are fed up with delays, Crikey! if my father had done that in Gloucester panel years ago he would have been told off.

It’s a bit off topic but if you were held at the signal outside Swindon on the up line there is no route from there into Platform 3, only into Platform 1 or 2 (bay). That’s why you would’ve had to wait for the other one to move first.

The train was on the line coming from Kemble, but they let it pass Signal SW1316, If held there it can cross over at Rodbourne then into plat 3 via Signal SW1312. They have the layout, but cease to use it, Same as somebody said about the extra routes on the Filton Bank.
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« Reply #1031 on: December 02, 2018, 21:44:40 »

The train was on the line coming from Kemble, but they let it pass Signal SW1316, If held there it can cross over at Rodbourne then into plat 3 via Signal SW1312. They have the layout, but cease to use it, Same as somebody said about the extra routes on the Filton Bank.

If they're just leaving it running on ARS (Automatic Route Setting) then it will just run into the scheduled platform
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« Reply #1032 on: December 03, 2018, 12:04:43 »

...First certainly don't run an 18 in Bristol...

No. They did, but not any more. Think it went from Lyde Green to Avonmouth, others may know better...

i think Wessex ran it at one time, then First when they gave it up. They suspended it for the Bromley Heath bridge works, but seem to have forgotten to reinstate it. It doesn't help that nobody really wants to go to either place it served.
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« Reply #1033 on: December 03, 2018, 12:08:34 »

The train was on the line coming from Kemble, but they let it pass Signal SW1316, If held there it can cross over at Rodbourne then into plat 3 via Signal SW1312. They have the layout, but cease to use it, Same as somebody said about the extra routes on the Filton Bank.

If they're just leaving it running on ARS (Automatic Route Setting) then it will just run into the scheduled platform

They have the means to turn it off, I suppose, I watched a freight crawl at a snails pace down from Wootton Basset Junction to Thingley and there were four trains backed up behind it, Just came out of Swindon, Anyway they cancelled the up signals and ran two down the up main.
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« Reply #1034 on: December 03, 2018, 12:11:19 »

...First certainly don't run an 18 in Bristol...

No. They did, but not any more. Think it went from Lyde Green to Avonmouth, others may know better...

i think Wessex ran it at one time, then First when they gave it up. They suspended it for the Bromley Heath bridge works, but seem to have forgotten to reinstate it. It doesn't help that nobody really wants to go to either place it served.

Here's a picture of a Number 18 bus at Porkway, captured by a low-flying google satellite (probly) in 2016: https://goo.gl/maps/72bCRfkZ98D2
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