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« on: February 24, 2008, 22:19:59 »
From the FGW▸ (First Great Western) website :

19:08 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 22:46
This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Trowbridge and Bradford-On-Avon.

Perhaps they have been reading the forum today.....
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2008, 22:27:30 »
The train departed Portsmouth Harbour 33 minutes late.

Lost 18 minutes between Fareham and Southampton Central so ran 48 minutes from there.

Waited at Westbury for 8 minutes for some odd reason, so 53 minutes late from there. 47 minutes at Bath Spa so gained 6 minutes...
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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2008, 23:12:53 »
I was going to get that back home to Bath today.

Thank god I didn't!

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As a slight point, National Rail dropped a clanger with the journey planner for this service today - it was being diverted via Eastleigh due to engineering works around St Denys. In my dozy state this morning I tapped in Christchurch -> Bath Spa and it told me to change at Eastleigh. Fine I thought, it must be diverting via Chandler's Ford as has been done before. But oh no, after Eastleigh it went via Airport Parkway to Soton Central where it carried on the normal route. So I went to Eastleigh and back rather pointlessly..... Sad

And, why oh why oh why on a Sunday does the slow SWT▸ (South West Trains) Poole train arrive at Soton 1 minute before the FGW▸ (First Great Western) Cardiff train departs thus you having to wait an hour to connect, that is 10mins on Mon-Sat!
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2008, 23:26:20 »
Because it happens to have a few more minutes between London and Woking, calls additionally at Woking, Micheldever, Shawford (every other hour), Eastleigh for 3 minutes to detach trains... Wink
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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2008, 23:45:11 »
And another one today (26/02/2008) :

20:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 23:55

This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Trowbridge and Bradford-On-Avon.This is due to a delay on a previous journey.
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2008, 01:04:56 »
Caught up 6 minutes or so on that one.

Was 40 mins late at Westbury, 33 at Bath Spa, 20 at Cardiff!
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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2008, 07:22:00 »
Quote from: Lee Fletcher on February 26, 2008, 23:45:11
And another one today (26/02/2008) :

20:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 23:55

This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Trowbridge and Bradford-On-Avon.This is due to a delay on a previous journey.

I hate the service behind, 21.20 Soton-Bristol, sits Westbury for 13mins!
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2008, 13:46:19 »
Quote from: Jim on February 27, 2008, 07:22:00
Quote from: Lee Fletcher on February 26, 2008, 23:45:11
And another one today (26/02/2008) :

20:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 23:55

This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Trowbridge and Bradford-On-Avon.This is due to a delay on a previous journey.

I hate the service behind, 21.20 Soton-Bristol, sits Westbury for 13mins!

Think I've had to catch that one in the past due to 'missing' Trowbridge.  Embarrassed Embarrassed

The longest 13 mins in the world.
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