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« Reply #3285 on: May 23, 2019, 19:43:14 »

20+ minute delays Paddington to Reading due to points failure
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« Reply #3286 on: May 24, 2019, 11:14:24 »

20+ minute delays Paddington to Reading due to points failure

Caught the 21:12 no delays.
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« Reply #3287 on: May 28, 2019, 06:27:38 »

Cancellations to services between Reading and London Paddington
Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between Reading and London Paddington fewer trains are able to run.
Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until 08:00 28/05.
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« Reply #3288 on: May 28, 2019, 07:46:10 »

Cancellations to services between Reading and London Paddington
Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between Reading and London Paddington fewer trains are able to run.
Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until 08:00 28/05.

Cancellations and disruption now expected until midday.
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« Reply #3289 on: May 28, 2019, 16:02:54 »

Cancellations to services between Reading and London Paddington
Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between Reading and London Paddington fewer trains are able to run.
Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until 08:00 28/05.

Cancellations and disruption now expected until midday.

Cancellations to services between Reading and London Paddington


Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between Reading and London Paddington fewer trains are able to run on some lines towards London Paddington.
Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed by up to 20 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until 19:00 28/05.
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« Reply #3290 on: May 28, 2019, 16:07:24 »

Strange, as it seems to be the Down Relief blocked (but only for electric services) between Twyford and Reading..... Huh
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« Reply #3291 on: May 28, 2019, 16:15:56 »

Delays to services between London Paddington and Slough


Due to trespassers on the railway between London Paddington and Slough all lines are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until 18:00 28/05.
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« Reply #3292 on: May 28, 2019, 18:00:29 »

Looking on Open train Times nothing is currently moving between Reading and Paddington...
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« Reply #3293 on: May 28, 2019, 18:02:38 »

Trespassers on the line at Hanwell - according to BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Wiltshire travel news
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« Reply #3294 on: May 28, 2019, 18:24:10 »

I'm travelling from Worcester to Paddington this afternoon.

Pulled out of Oxford on time, but then there's an immediate announcement about problems ahead of us (a trespass incident at Hanwell), with everything backed up to Didcot.  Having that announcement before leaving Oxford would've been useful - could have gone to Marylebone instead.

Anyway, we get to Reading 20 late. After sitting in the platform, there's an announcement that we're not going any further. Please transfer to the train on the other side of the platform.

So we do that. And after 10 minutes, that one is cancelled as well.

Question - do we (1) sit it out and wait, or (2) go home and try again first thing tomorrow, or (3) go (very slowly) to Waterloo.

(2) difficult, because nothing is coming through from Paddington. The two cancelled trains are still sitting there. I'd've thought that running them back where they came from might help with clearing the traffic from Reading.

So here I am on the (very slow) stopper to Waterloo...
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« Reply #3295 on: May 28, 2019, 18:38:36 »

Trains beginning to move again...there's going to be a lot of DelayRepay..
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« Reply #3296 on: May 28, 2019, 18:44:56 »

Very complicated rescue of a distressed person on Wharncliffe Viaduct.
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« Reply #3297 on: May 28, 2019, 18:53:38 »

Which one is Wharncliffe Viaduct?
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« Reply #3298 on: May 28, 2019, 19:29:02 »

ancellations to services between London Paddington and Slough
Following trespassers on the railway earlier today between London Paddington and Slough all lines have now reopened.
Train services running to and from these stations are returning to normal but some services will still be cancelled, delayed by up to 125 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
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« Reply #3299 on: May 28, 2019, 19:43:39 »

Which one is Wharncliffe Viaduct?

It’s the high viaduct just to the west of Hanwell station that bridges over a river and park area.  I personally witnessed somebody threatening to take their own life stood on that viaduct wall many years ago.  They were talked down by staff in the end before police had arrived.
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