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« Reply #210 on: December 19, 2015, 10:06:13 »

Cancellations of TW services this morning due to a Track Circuit Failure at Rushey Platt.

Yep, bang goes my journey to Frome!

As Jethro would say TransWilts don't call Frome Saturdays  Grin

For the record the two cancellations were the 08:36 Swindon to Westbury and 09:30 Westbury to Swindon.
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« Reply #211 on: December 19, 2015, 14:11:24 »

As Jethro would say TransWilts don't call Frome Saturdays  Grin

For the record the two cancellations were the 08:36 Swindon to Westbury and 09:30 Westbury to Swindon.

TransWilts is a connectional service - with around 80% of journeys invoking a transfer to and from another wheeled vehicle at one or more (i.e. two) end(s) of the journey.
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« Reply #212 on: December 20, 2015, 00:35:46 »

Including trams?  Shocked Roll Eyes Grin

Melksham pax from Swindon were advised to go to Chippenham to pick up onward road tramsport.
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« Reply #213 on: December 21, 2015, 05:54:32 »

Including trams?  Shocked Roll Eyes Grin

Melksham pax from Swindon were advised to go to Chippenham to pick up onward road tramsport.

...........probably should have read "tractor"  Wink
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« Reply #214 on: December 21, 2015, 06:48:32 »

Including trams?  Shocked Roll Eyes Grin

Melksham pax from Swindon were advised to go to Chippenham to pick up onward road tramsport.

Hoist by my own petard. (see signature below)  Embarrassed
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« Reply #215 on: December 23, 2015, 06:32:02 »

Swindon to Westbury a bus this morning due to signal failure between Chippenham and Swindon, also affecting Bath and Bristol passengers. Expected to last till late morning
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« Reply #216 on: December 23, 2015, 09:15:42 »

Swindon to Westbury a bus this morning due to signal failure between Chippenham and Swindon, also affecting Bath and Bristol passengers. Expected to last till late morning

Not a 'clever' morning ... with problems rather wider than the TransWilts ... I'm guessing there might be just one line open between Chippenham and Royal Wootton Bassett, judging by the number of Bristol to London (and vice versa) services cutting out Bath Spa and Chippenham.

List of buses accepting train tickets - notable by its absence from the list is the Faresaver x34, now the only Trowbridge - Melksham - Chippenham bus after First's ending of the commercial 234 at the start of August, and Wiltshire Council's removal (without public consultation) of the subsidised evening service.   That latter is a real issue still - I came home from London last night on the 20:45 ex Paddington and would have caught the final bus were it still running.   As it was, I paid 20 quid for a taxi - and the driver told me he gets "a couple of runs a week" from Chippenham Station to Melksham.   If you multiply that up by the number of taxis operating from Chippenham Station ...

Back to this morning, noted that the 07:04 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa did run. Small problem ... diverted via Bristol, so any traffic from Westbury or Trowbridge to Gloucester or Cheltenham was catered for.   Just a problem for users of Melksham, Chippenham, Swindon, Kemble, Stroud and Stonehouse ... who constitute the vast majority of passengers (I would be tempted to say the WHOLE passenger flow, but there may just be people going all the way!)

I may sound negative - however these things happen and in the wider picture it's not just TransWilts.   But - my goodness - it's frustrating ...
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« Reply #217 on: December 23, 2015, 09:16:19 »

More TCFs (Track Circuit Failure). This time in the Christian Malford area on both the Up and Down Mains between Wootton Bassett Junction and Chippenham.

Total Block Working was put in place. Some issues remain as at 0900 with one signal refusing to clear.
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« Reply #218 on: December 23, 2015, 09:32:39 »

More TCFs (Track Circuit Failure). This time in the Christian Malford area on both the Up and Down Mains between Wootton Bassett Junction and Chippenham.

Total Block Working was put in place. Some issues remain as at 0900 with one signal refusing to clear.
Hi BNM.  Think that should be Temporary Block Working Wink
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« Reply #219 on: December 23, 2015, 10:03:28 »

Swindon  Advertiser
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14163218.UPDATE__Signalling_problems_cut_trains_from_Swindon/

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FEWER trains were running from Swindon to Bristol Temple Meads this morning and services are still being delayed.

A signalling problem between Chippenham and Swindon is to blame, says Great Western Railway.


Services were running again by 9am but with delays of about half an hour.
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« Reply #220 on: December 23, 2015, 13:54:01 »

More TCFs (Track Circuit Failure). This time in the Christian Malford area on both the Up and Down Mains between Wootton Bassett Junction and Chippenham.

Total Block Working was put in place. Some issues remain as at 0900 with one signal refusing to clear.
Hi BNM.  Think that should be Temporary Block Working Wink

You are indeed correct. No idea where I got 'Total' from.  Embarrassed
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« Reply #221 on: December 24, 2015, 21:55:22 »

Blame it on autocorrect.  Grin
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« Reply #222 on: January 21, 2016, 21:59:31 »

Travelled by train from Melksham to Taunton and back ... had to stand from Melksham to Chippenham and back from Chippenham to Melksham ... 96 passengers, with 28 off and 3 on at Melksham.   Morning was about 20 on and 6 off, with 86 into Chippenham.

Oh - some of the regular folks I know were saying it was much quieter than usual this evening - "we're usually standing all the way up the carriage and not just at the ends ...". I'm ... quietly pleased  Wink
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« Reply #223 on: January 29, 2016, 16:23:16 »

14:30 to Swindon at Melksham today.  +12 -2 ... about 35 on when the train left.   Gobsmacked - this is supposed to be the quiet middle of the day!
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« Reply #224 on: January 30, 2016, 20:02:47 »

The surveys done in 2014 had around 16 on beyond Melksham in May, and 8 or 9 on for the two days in October.  Similarly, only 2 or 3 people joined at Melksham on those three days.

So I'd agree, it's a remarkable increase.  If this is indicative of loadings then it would reinforce the fact that an hourly service would not be underused. 
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