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Author Topic: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway since September 2017 - ongoing discussion  (Read 424565 times)
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« Reply #915 on: September 09, 2018, 08:39:43 »

Summer holidays and the BBQ season are over, but...…………it's Sunday so these are all cancelled because there aren't any crew available.

08:27 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa due 10:43
09:24 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 12:08
10:27 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa due 12:45
10:57 London Paddington to Penzance due 16:11
11:00 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington due 12:50
11:18 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington due 13:30
11:27 London Paddington to Paignton due 15:03
13:33 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington due 15:45
15:24 Swansea to London Paddington due 18:40
15:42 Plymouth to London Paddington due 19:29
15:45 Paignton to London Paddington due 19:50
16:13 Penzance to London Paddington due 21:42
16:22 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa due 18:45
16:51 Swansea to London Paddington due 20:10
19:32 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington due 21:45
20:57 London Paddington to Exeter St Davids due 23:35
21:30 London Paddington to Swansea due 00:53
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« Reply #916 on: September 09, 2018, 08:49:08 »

Think you should add this one to your list too Taplow Green:

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09:30 London Paddington to Carmarthen due 13:37 will be started from Swansea.
It will no longer call at London Paddington, Reading, Swindon, Bristol Parkway, Newport (South Wales), Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Port Talbot Parkway and Neath.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

A next to useless service unless you are travelling between Swansea and Carmarthen where all the passengers could probably all fit into a 153!
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« Reply #917 on: September 09, 2018, 10:27:57 »

Think you should add this one to your list too Taplow Green:

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09:30 London Paddington to Carmarthen due 13:37 will be started from Swansea.
It will no longer call at London Paddington, Reading, Swindon, Bristol Parkway, Newport (South Wales), Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Port Talbot Parkway and Neath.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

A next to useless service unless you are travelling between Swansea and Carmarthen where all the passengers could probably all fit into a 153!
Not exactly the worse one of the day, I think all Cheltenham ones are cancelled.


This is unacceptable, GWR (Great Western Railway) with there poor delivery of services. Cancel every Cheltenham, leaving Stroud Stonehouse and Kemble with a 3/4 hourly service. Gloucester has a 5 minute connection at Parkway, so no use for slow people and those with heavy luggage. Beyond a joke.
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« Reply #918 on: September 09, 2018, 11:01:29 »

There were 20 when I looked, all HSSs (High Speed Services) apart from the first 2 StIves Trips.    The Regional ones, especially on the Cardiff to Portsmouth route, tend to show up as the day goes on.
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« Reply #919 on: September 09, 2018, 15:44:01 »

Early September is always popular for the crews who don’t have children to take holidays as the weather is still generally good.  GWR (Great Western Railway) have also generally gotten on with training over the past couple of months when they may have been guilty in the past of delaying training but then exasperating the problem later on.

That’s not to say all these cancellations are acceptable mind you, but I would guess the situation at weekends will improve by the end of the month.  Note the word ‘improved’ and not ‘resolved’!
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« Reply #920 on: September 09, 2018, 15:55:45 »

In their response via Twitter to somebody with a Cheltenham cancellation query, GWR (Great Western Railway) said that all timetabled trains have a full crew rostered in.   Is this a "wind up"
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« Reply #921 on: September 09, 2018, 16:21:31 »

Looks like the majority could be Paddington drivers.  I wonder if the proposed new driver depot at Swindon might be seen by GWR (Great Western Railway) management as a solution to staffing Paddington on Sunday’s??
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« Reply #922 on: September 09, 2018, 16:24:12 »

They roster staff in though you can pull out with seven days notice, and this is what all the staff are doing.
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« Reply #923 on: September 09, 2018, 16:26:44 »

They roster staff in though you can pull out with seven days notice, and this is what all the staff are doing.

Basically then they pencil them in and hope for the best?


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« Reply #924 on: September 09, 2018, 16:40:22 »

They roster staff in though you can pull out with seven days notice, and this is what all the staff are doing.

Basically then they pencil them in and hope for the best?


The roster is done around 5 days in advance.  Up until that point you can make yourself unavailable to work.
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« Reply #925 on: September 09, 2018, 21:30:38 »

I found all the unavailable staff today.... riding the (rumour has it) last ever HST (High Speed Train) to Newquay.
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« Reply #926 on: September 10, 2018, 08:50:50 »

I found all the unavailable staff today.... riding the (rumour has it) last ever HST (High Speed Train) to Newquay.


.......rather fortunate that they could find a driver for that one!  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #927 on: September 10, 2018, 08:55:09 »

Looks like the majority could be Paddington drivers.  I wonder if the proposed new driver depot at Swindon might be seen by GWR (Great Western Railway) management as a solution to staffing Paddington on Sunday’s??
Proposed? Surely it will take a few years to build a depot, then staff it.
A long way off for now.
Maybe the next franchisee would benefit more from this.
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« Reply #928 on: September 10, 2018, 09:07:44 »

Looks like the majority could be Paddington drivers.  I wonder if the proposed new driver depot at Swindon might be seen by GWR (Great Western Railway) management as a solution to staffing Paddington on Sunday’s??
Proposed? Surely it will take a few years to build a depot, then staff it.
A long way off for now.
Maybe the next franchisee would benefit more from this.

I would suspect that a "driver depot" isn't quite such a big build as a train depot.

A signing on and off point for a late train (turbo?) from Bristol via Chippenham - for which there is an 800 signature petition floating around. Return train in the morning at around 05:30 to provide the first Bath to Bristol service, assuming that Cross Country pull theirs. Also for the first Southampton departure / last Southampton arrival when Swindon - Westbury, Westbury - Salisbury and Salisbury - Solent - Romsey get joined up.
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« Reply #929 on: September 10, 2018, 10:28:47 »

There has been mention elsewhere of work having started at COCKELBURY SIDINGS.  Not been that way for a long time, so not sure how accurate that is.  Its going to be, together with READING, a sub-depot of ST.PHILIPS MARSH.

Edit to Add: ....and its going to be a LIGHT MAINTENANCE FACILITY
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