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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2017, 10:06:21 » |
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Oh whoopee, I'm booked on the 0907 ex-Cardiff.....
Thanks for this info - I wouldn't have checked this far out, having already booked an Advance, one assumes that the train is running.
Great - sharing trains to Wembley with England supporters. Wish they'd ban alcohol on these morning trains when football is on.
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2017, 10:12:02 » |
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The complication on Sunday is that there are no trains from Reading via Wokingham to anywhere - not Waterloo, nor Guildford. Hence the unusual advice to take a bus to Heathrow for a train to London, if you can't go via Oxford.
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2017, 10:14:33 » |
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Oh, can go via Oxford (although NRE‡ suggest going via Basingstoke with a bus to Woking & onwards to Waterloo), but I rather object to travelling with leery football supporters on a Sunday morning, when you want (& usually do get) peace & quiet to read the Sunday papers....
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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2017, 10:22:53 » |
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I heard a rumour about this over a week ago, why on earth have they left it so late in the day to announce it?
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2017, 10:31:55 » |
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An improvement I am going to suggest to GWR▸ is that they know who have booked affected trains, so why not email them & let them know? Quite easily done, I would have thought.
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2017, 10:47:14 » |
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I heard a rumour about this over a week ago, why on earth have they left it so late in the day to announce it?
My guess is that they (and that might be GWR▸ or NR» or the two of them playing planning ping-pong) looked at the lack of alternative routes and thought they should try to do it another weekend if at all possible. So they thought very hard, and for so long that they simultaneously ran out of (1) ideas and (2) time and had to do it anyway, but by now with almost no notice. |
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2017, 11:10:39 » |
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Let's hope it doesn't overrun* before the Sunday afternoon/evening rush back to London as I don't think Chiltern's Oxford-Marylebone service would cope with the volume of passengers coming from Bristol/South Wales. *Sadly Network Rail have form on overrunning  |
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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2017, 11:12:30 » |
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Thanks for this info - I wouldn't have checked this far out, having already booked an Advance, one assumes that the train is running.
No probs. First I heard about it was when it appeared on my Twitter feed this morning. |
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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2017, 11:49:39 » |
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Let's hope it doesn't overrun* before the Sunday afternoon/evening rush back to London as I don't think Chiltern's Oxford-Marylebone service would cope with the volume of passengers coming from Bristol/South Wales. *Sadly Network Rail have form on overrunning It's for the electrification switch on and testing, isn't it? |
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To view my GWML▸ Electrification cab video 'before and after' video comparison, as well as other videos of the new layout at Reading and 'before and after' comparisons of the Cotswold Line Redoubling scheme, see: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/IndustryInsider/ |
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2017, 12:10:09 » |
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It's for the electrification switch on and testing, isn't it?
If that's the case then surely notification of a change to services on Sunday morning would have been communicated much sooner? |
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« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2017, 12:27:52 » |
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It was postponed from early this month, so I'm guessing this alternative date was rather hastily decided upon. Needs to happen in next couple of weeks so testing and training of 387s can commence before passenger services start in May.
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To view my GWML▸ Electrification cab video 'before and after' video comparison, as well as other videos of the new layout at Reading and 'before and after' comparisons of the Cotswold Line Redoubling scheme, see: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/IndustryInsider/ |
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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2017, 15:27:07 » |
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Damn, blast and curse. I have a advance ticket for what was the 08:00 from Paddington to Taunton on Sunday which is now the 07:30 bus from Paddington according to the timetable. Think I might catch a later bus/train making sure I have a screen-shot of the web-page that says tickets will be valid for trains later in the day in case I get grief.
More worryingly, I only found out about the Sunday fun because I came on here after I heard about the derailment at East Somerset Junction.
Presumably (I hope!) there will be announcements made and big signs at Taunton and Paddington about the Sunday Paddington - Reading closure on the way up to Paddington on Friday.
More cursing, muttering and grumbling.
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« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2017, 16:09:46 » |
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Slightly tongue in cheek - but for those who enjoy such things - as a result of this there are through trains between Swindon and Oxford via the West Curve at Didcot on Sunday.
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« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2017, 16:49:05 » |
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Suggestion elsewhere is that the closure is to address the ongoing reliability problems with the infrastructure in the area.
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I like to travel. It lets me feel I'm getting somewhere.
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