Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 21:15 28 Mar 2024
* Bus plunges off South Africa bridge, killing 45
- Easter getaways hit by travel disruption
- Where Baltimore bridge investigation goes now
- How do I renew my UK passport and what is the 10-year rule?
- Family anger at sentence on fatal crash driver, 19
- Easter travel warning as millions set to hit roads
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]
 02/06/24 - Summer Timetable starts
17/08/24 - Bus to Imber
27/09/25 - 200 years of passenger trains

On this day
28th Mar (1988)
Formal end to carrying coffins by BR (link)

Train RunningCancelled
18:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
18:36 London Paddington to Plymouth
19:33 London Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill
19:35 Exeter St Davids to London Paddington
19:59 Gatwick Airport to Reading
20:20 Reading to Shalford
20:49 Newbury to Bedwyn
20:54 Reading to Gatwick Airport
20:56 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington
21:16 Bedwyn to Newbury
21:30 Shalford to Reading
21:53 Newbury to Bedwyn
22:25 Bedwyn to Newbury
22:30 Gatwick Airport to Reading
22:47 Newbury to Bedwyn
Short Run
16:03 London Paddington to Penzance
17:03 London Paddington to Penzance
17:30 London Paddington to Taunton
17:36 London Paddington to Plymouth
18:03 London Paddington to Penzance
19:04 Paignton to London Paddington
20:03 London Paddington to Plymouth
20:11 Salisbury to Bristol Temple Meads
20:42 Bedwyn to London Paddington
21:04 London Paddington to Plymouth
23:04 Reading to Bedwyn
23:17 Bedwyn to Reading
Delayed
16:15 Penzance to London Paddington
Additional 17:26 Castle Cary to Penzance
19:04 London Paddington to Plymouth
23:45 London Paddington to Penzance
PollsOpen and recent polls
Closed 2024-03-25 Easter Escape - to where?
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple MeadsBath SpaChippenhamSwindonDidcot ParkwayReadingLondon PaddingtonMelksham
Exeter St DavidsTauntonWestburyTrowbridgeBristol ParkwayCardiff CentralOxfordCheltenham SpaBirmingham New Street
March 28, 2024, 21:18:37 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[118] West Wiltshire Bus Changes April 2024
[116] would you like your own LIVE train station departure board?
[89] Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption el...
[46] Return of the BRUTE?
[38] If not HS2 to Manchester, how will traffic be carried?
[28] Reversing Beeching - bring heritage and freight lines into the...
 
News: the Great Western Coffee Shop ... keeping you up to date with travel around the South West
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Pages: 1 ... 20 21 [22] 23 24 ... 26
  Print  
Author Topic: Daytime Traffic on the TransWilts  (Read 232599 times)
TaplowGreen
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 7746



View Profile
« Reply #315 on: November 04, 2017, 09:07:32 »

......deep breaths Graham......count to 10!  Smiley


11:32 Westbury to Swindon due 12:20 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train guards.

12:41 Swindon to Westbury due 13:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train guards.

16:33 Westbury to Swindon due 17:22 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train guards.
Logged
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #316 on: November 04, 2017, 09:37:53 »

......deep breaths Graham......count to 10!  Smiley


11:32 Westbury to Swindon due 12:20 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train guards.

12:41 Swindon to Westbury due 13:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train guards.

16:33 Westbury to Swindon due 17:22 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train guards.

The first two "went" a couple of hours back and are the easiest to loose in an occasional emergency where things need thinning out due to extraordinary crew sickness issues.  Bit unhappy about the 16:33 ... will be more than a bit unhappy if the 17:36 return goes too.

Five events in Wiltshire this month - all on the diary here and summarised at https://www.facebook.com/TransWilts/posts/1211116785655028 ... where I can and will be talking much more through the future, but also addressing current problems and prognosis.   All welcome!
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
bobm
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 9809



View Profile
« Reply #317 on: November 04, 2017, 14:40:10 »

In the end the 11:32 and 12:41 would have been cancelled anyway due to a points failure at Bradford Junction.  The 10:39 from Swindon was stuck on the single line for over an hour and was officially terminated at Melksham.

The failure also affected the Avon Valley line with services to and from Portsmouth Harbour also delayed in excess of 60 minutes.
Logged
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #318 on: November 04, 2017, 18:21:51 »

17:41 ex Swindon also cancelled.

That makes four cancelled and one terminated short out of 16 today. Not clever.

I'm headed home from the Midlands ... hope the last train runs ...
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #319 on: November 04, 2017, 18:26:21 »

Current mood from Twitter ...

Quote
@GWRHelp please sort out ur mgmnt issues. Rostering coverage surely pretty fundamental to rail service? Why are you pushing passengers away?

Quote
Service was almost down to nothing after the 90s and I have the impression that GWR (Great Western Railway) still treating it as an annoyance compared to Bris-Padd.




Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
TaplowGreen
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 7746



View Profile
« Reply #320 on: November 11, 2017, 07:55:51 »

Two cancellations already....

07:32 Westbury to Swindon due 08:24
08:36 Swindon to Westbury due 09:20
Logged
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #321 on: November 11, 2017, 08:08:53 »

Two cancellations already....

07:32 Westbury to Swindon due 08:24
08:36 Swindon to Westbury due 09:20

Yep, nobody at Westbury to crew the thing.   First southbound train of the day (Melksham time) now 11:02 ...
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
TaplowGreen
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 7746



View Profile
« Reply #322 on: November 12, 2017, 09:07:11 »

Two cancellations already....

07:32 Westbury to Swindon due 08:24
08:36 Swindon to Westbury due 09:20

Yep, nobody at Westbury to crew the thing.   First southbound train of the day (Melksham time) now 11:02 ...


.....and today - same reason it would seem?

15:28 Swindon to Westbury due 16:10
16:20 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
18:39 Westbury to Swindon due 19:22
20:02 Swindon to Westbury due 20:48
Logged
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #323 on: November 12, 2017, 09:16:42 »

Two cancellations already....

07:32 Westbury to Swindon due 08:24
08:36 Swindon to Westbury due 09:20

Yep, nobody at Westbury to crew the thing.   First southbound train of the day (Melksham time) now 11:02 ...


.....and today - same reason it would seem?

15:28 Swindon to Westbury due 16:10
16:20 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
18:39 Westbury to Swindon due 19:22
20:02 Swindon to Westbury due 20:48


Also
17:18 Swindon to Westbury due 18:05
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
bobm
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 9809



View Profile
« Reply #324 on: November 12, 2017, 10:20:38 »

15:28 Swindon to Westbury now re-instated.
Logged
bobm
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 9809



View Profile
« Reply #325 on: November 12, 2017, 11:23:50 »

15:28 now cancelled again along with the preceding 14:16 Westbury to Swindon.
Logged
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #326 on: November 12, 2017, 12:35:42 »

15:28 now cancelled again along with the preceding 14:16 Westbury to Swindon.

... and all re-instated !?

Think I'm happy ... just wonder how many people have been put off their day's plans ...
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
bobm
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 9809



View Profile
« Reply #327 on: November 12, 2017, 12:45:47 »

Bit of a merry go round today.

I have said it before, but I do wish the GWR (Great Western Railway) website would make more of re-instatements.  Simply removing them from the cancellation list isn't enough to my mind.   It is, after all, good news - you'd think they would like to draw attention to it!
Logged
phile
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1382

Language spoken Welsh as well as English


View Profile Email
« Reply #328 on: November 12, 2017, 20:27:16 »

They all ran today after all.
Logged
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #329 on: November 15, 2017, 08:31:03 »

07:49 at Melksham ... 7 off and 37 on.   Left with an estimated 115 on board - 122/42

Ticket machine out of order at Melksham, Train Manager failed to come through before Chippenham (probably couldn't have physically got through), Chippenham unbarriered ... so I expect ticket sales (and income to GWR (Great Western Railway)) won't accurately reflect the number of passengers carried.

Chippenham - lots of people off; estimate 20 joined and left with around 85 on board - so "lots" means about 50 people off.   These days, a counter is needed at each door for accuracy, and on-train counts aren't going to be accurate until we get our second carriage on 2nd January 2018  Grin.
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: 1 ... 20 21 [22] 23 24 ... 26
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules (email link to report). Forum hosted by Well House Consultants

Jump to top of pageJump to Forum Home Page