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Author Topic: Person hit by train at Twford Station - 25 October 2016  (Read 11065 times)
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« on: October 25, 2016, 16:04:39 »


    Cancellations to services between Reading and Slough
    Due to a person being hit by a train between Reading and Slough all lines are blocked.
    Impact: Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed by up to 90 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until 18:30 25/10.
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2016, 16:34:55 »

Freight train involved.  All on stop currently with Twyford station shut.
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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2016, 16:40:59 »

Reporter Gemma Davidson of The Wokingham Paper is currently live tweeting from Twyford Station:

https://twitter.com/gemdavidson23

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Access to the station has been restricted by police and a cordon is in place on both platforms
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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2016, 16:43:25 »

too much info maybe. they're dead, ffs
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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2016, 16:58:14 »

Main lines through Twyford now reopened.
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« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2016, 17:02:26 »

too much info maybe. they're dead, ffs

Perhaps some tweets have been deleted, ChrisB ... with some trepidation I took a look and really the only extra info aside from pictures of the emergency services there was a confirmation that the person has passed away, and that as yet they're unidentified; that latter may be providing some sort of snippet for people who may have a link to the people potentially involved.
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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2016, 17:14:21 »

something must have been deleted.  The twitter feed is currently innocuous stuff.
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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2016, 17:23:37 »

I clicked on the twitter link before ChrisB commented and just looked again and nothing's been deleted in that time. However may have missed further updates from her?
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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2016, 17:32:09 »

something must have been deleted.  The twitter feed is currently innocuous stuff.

It may be innocuous, but it's still ambulance chasing.

GWR (Great Western Railway)/NR» (Network Rail - home page) & BTP (British Transport Police) presumably disseminated the information quite rapidly by the appropriate media, so why would some half baked journo need to hover about outside the station making a minor nuisance of herself? Unless she's after some gore, though I suspect she'd not be tweeting very much if she witnessed what BTP, ambulance and train/station staff saw today.
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2016, 17:39:01 »

something must have been deleted.  The twitter feed is currently innocuous stuff.

It may be innocuous, but it's still ambulance chasing.

GWR (Great Western Railway)/NR» (Network Rail - home page) & BTP (British Transport Police) presumably disseminated the information quite rapidly by the appropriate media, so why would some half baked journo need to hover about outside the station making a minor nuisance of herself? Unless she's after some gore, though I suspect she'd not be tweeting very much if she witnessed what BTP, ambulance and train/station staff saw today.
       It's her job, and I guess it's a quiet News day..........local newspapers are rarely the destination of Pulitzer prizes.
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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2016, 18:42:36 »

Let's hope there aren't 23 more with the same journalistic ability as this one !...
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2016, 19:08:31 »

This is some of the worst disruption I have experienced in a long time.  That is in terms of time since the original incident, services that are able to run and overcrowding at Paddington.
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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2016, 19:27:24 »

This is some of the worst disruption I have experienced in a long time.  That is in terms of time since the original incident, services that are able to run and overcrowding at Paddington.

It happened at just about the worst time of day in terms of number of people and services to be effected, and it's now nearly an hour after the original feed said that disruption would carry on until - and still some lines haven't been handed back. Could be several reasons for that - starting with something like it being a freight train involved, and no stand-in freight driver who knows that traction for miles around ...
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« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2016, 19:34:43 »

Loco involved required attendance of fitters to repair an air leak.

Replacement driver sourced from Westbury.
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« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2016, 22:02:58 »

Looking at the photos, was wondering if this is the same coal train that failed yesterday near Frome. If so, not a good couple of days.
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