Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption elsewhere - ongoing, since Oct 2014

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[Hal]

Newbury to Bedwyn isn't in the Thames Valley, which is the title of this thread.

[TaplowGreen]

Newbury to Bedwyn isn't in the Thames Valley, which is the title of this thread.

Thanks for the information. I've contacted the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police instructing him to withdraw his officers from Newbury and also advised West Berkshire Council that they should relocate...I'll drop a line to Oxford University too! 

https://www.ox.ac.uk/oxfordforSE/thames-valley#:~:text=The%20Thames%20Valley%20area%20covers,Council%20and%20Wokingham%20Borough%20Council.

[IndustryInsider]

Newbury to Bedwyn isn't in the Thames Valley, which is the title of this thread.

I think it would definitely be better suited in the London to Kennet Valley board:  http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=8.0

[Hal]

Agree

[grahame]

"Thames Valley" is an interesting one to define - to me it's synonymous with the "Thames Basin" - i.e. the land that drains out between Essex and Kent and it was probably that way to the early railway builders too - uphill from London to the watershed at - well, on the Berks and Hants line as far as Crofton / Savernake, and on the Bristol line to perhaps Royal Wooton Bassett, up to Cropredy or Claydon on the way to Birmingham, to Sapperton on the way to Gloucester.  They had to pull and push trains from London against gravity up to the summits.  "Thames and its tributaries", I suppose. And I note that this thread is posted in "Across the West" rather than "London to Reading", so Newbury / Bedwyn are in defines scope.

But

"Thames Valley" is a huge area, and there are other more specific boards such as the Kennet Valley / Berks and Hants line one where posts about that area will get more attention and not dilute the thread about the GW^▸ (Great Western) mainline with things about the line through Newbury which of course also features in the "London to the West of England" section.  Messy, isn't it?

No-one is wrong or right on this one; best post sensibly where you see fit, and for us all to accept that views of what is the best place will reasonably vary between different members.  Where something is very clearly out of place, I or other moderators can / could / do split, join, move, re-arramge things and on occasion that comes not from a thread's origin but rather how I has changed or digressed over time.  I am not minded to  make changes here / on this thread tonight (posting from far, far away from the Thames Valley) but if others on the moderator team think it would be a good idea (and brave it would be indeed to re-arrange this thread!) I'll go along with it.

[IndustryInsider]

Yes, I guess I would like to see things like that posted on a local board (where they exist).  There’s less chance it will be missed or quickly forgotten about amongst everything else that’s lumped in here, and it’s easier to follow disruption trends in a given area over time if they are on that specific areas board.

This is a thread I often don’t bother reading these days.  Quite ironic given I started it! 

[TaplowGreen]

Perhaps I should apologise.

Given its title I thought that this thread covered "infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption elsewhere"

The incident to which my post referred which has apparently (to my amazement) created so much brouhaha was a level crossing problem in Kintbury (in the Thames Valley) which affected services to and from Newbury (in the Thames Valley) and Bedwyn - incidents between these two stations have been posted previously under this heading by others without comment so didn't think it would be an issue.

The definition of the Thames Valley is as follows;

The Thames Valley area covers the 8 local authorities of Bracknell Forest Council, Buckinghamshire County Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Reading Borough Council, Slough Borough Council, The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, West Berkshire Council and Wokingham Borough Council.

(Newbury/Kintbury are covered by West Berkshire Council)

Anyway............I will now don sackcloth and ashes and contemplate the error of my ways! Have a good day all, hopefully uninterrupted by infrastructure problems, in whichever geographically distinct location they may be!

[IndustryInsider]

 

[GBM]

Along with others, I've posted about problems between Newbury and Westbury as these cause problems for West Country services to/from London.
More sackcloth and ashes please.......

[CyclingSid]

You could use the excuse it was in the Hungerford sanitary district (c. 1872) which extended over the county boundary to include Bedwyn!

[TaplowGreen]

You could use the excuse it was in the Hungerford sanitary district (c. 1872) which extended over the county boundary to include Bedwyn!

Goes without saying