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« Reply #525 on: December 27, 2014, 12:54:22 »

Following along on Twitter things still look far from finished.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23PaddingtonTrains&src=hash&mode=photos
But that work isn't meant to be finished until the new year.

I see at least one train has been sent out prospecting for a way through the battlefield ...

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09:30 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington due 11:26 This train has been delayed at Slough and has been further delayed at Southall.
This train will be diverted from Reading.
This train will be terminated at Ealing Broadway.
This train will call additionally at Ealing Broadway.
This train will no longer call at London Paddington.
This is due to over-running engineering works. Last Updated :27/12/2014 12:45

(Currently -12:55 - it's at Hanwell.)
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« Reply #526 on: December 27, 2014, 12:59:00 »

Good to see plenty of staff by the 'information' screens in this photo.

https://twitter.com/HUTCHfilms/status/548808702783131648/photo/1
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« Reply #527 on: December 27, 2014, 13:30:03 »

I don't think they offer void days at weekdnds
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« Reply #528 on: December 27, 2014, 13:41:17 »

I've driven into London today but I've just popped into PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains) to see what's happening, and breaking news is that a train has just arrived into P8, an High Speed Train (HST (High Speed Train)) which has disgorged some weary travellers. And now one also arriving into P9. Departure indicators showing 'delayed' departures to PNZ at 1328 and BRI» (Bristol Temple Meads - next trains) at 1333.

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« Reply #529 on: December 27, 2014, 14:08:22 »

So after both Kings Cross and Paddington closed due to overrunning engineering work, we await to see on Monday if Network Rail can complete the hat trick and overrun the work at Watford keeping Euston closed.
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« Reply #530 on: December 27, 2014, 14:37:03 »

I got lucky with this today. I turned up at Southend Victoria station and boarded the train about 20 minutes before it was going to leave to head back to West Country. A member of platform staff spotted me and leaned in and asked if I was going back to the West Country. I said that was the plan and he asked me to come and take a look at something. That something was the Sky News Channel from the door of the Mess Room.

Needless to say I left Southend Victoria station pretty rapidly and not by means of a train Roll Eyes Cheesy Lips sealed
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« Reply #531 on: December 27, 2014, 14:39:29 »

Network Rail have tweeted that the lines outside of Paddington have been handed back.  

https://twitter.com/NetworkRailPAD/status/548838948790095872
https://twitter.com/NetworkRailPAD/status/548839209327661056

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« Reply #532 on: December 27, 2014, 14:41:01 »

Yes, they'll be ongoing delays for the rest of the day, but at least trains can now get through.
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« Reply #533 on: December 27, 2014, 15:33:05 »

I don't think they offer void days at weekdnds

Why not?
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« Reply #534 on: December 27, 2014, 16:33:20 »

I don't think they offer void days at weekdnds

Why not?

Because season tickets are priced / based on a five day [Monday through Friday] use. 
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« Reply #535 on: December 27, 2014, 16:56:14 »

So if we, as season ticket holders, can't travel at weekends due to collective network failure then we have no recompense?
I bet NR» (Network Rail - home page) still pays FGW (First Great Western) for today's delays. A nice little earner for FGW.
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« Reply #536 on: December 27, 2014, 17:02:01 »

Well, at about 13:10 we gave up waiting at Padd'n and went off to Marylebone. Where we caught the 13:36 to Birmingham. And got back to Foregate Street at 16:40.

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« Reply #537 on: December 27, 2014, 17:31:26 »

Its interesting that the "delay map" now quite closely resembles the same picture this time last year when we had extreme weather as an excuse - but all that is responsible this time around is good old fashioned incompetence.

I really hope that some of the FGW (First Great Western) devotees on here really understand what it is to try to get from London to Plymouth/Penzance during periods of massive disruption, which seems to be pretty much a weekly (at least) event these days.
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« Reply #538 on: December 27, 2014, 17:38:00 »

Its interesting that the "delay map" now quite closely resembles the same picture this time last year when we had extreme weather as an excuse - but all that is responsible this time around is good old fashioned incompetence.

In my opinion the extreme weather was a "reasonable cause" rather than "excuse". My in laws (who like us were flooded in 2007) were flooded 6 times in succession in February and March this year. That to me is extreme weather for this country.
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« Reply #539 on: December 27, 2014, 17:43:39 »

Its interesting that the "delay map" now quite closely resembles the same picture this time last year when we had extreme weather as an excuse - but all that is responsible this time around is good old fashioned incompetence.

In my opinion the extreme weather was a "reasonable cause" rather than "excuse". My in laws (who like us were flooded in 2007) were flooded 6 times in succession in February and March this year. That to me is extreme weather for this country.

Yes, I fully agree that nothing can be done about the whims of nature, that was my point....and your thoughts on today's (entirely man made) events, which have inconvenienced tens of thousands?
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