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« Reply #315 on: March 15, 2018, 11:10:54 »

The pain was merely delayed:

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11:22 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street due 13:44 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.

13:55 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington due 16:27 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.

Last Updated:15/03/2018 10:54

This is getting beyond a joke now. GWR (Great Western Railway) have either simply given up or don't give a **** for their Cotswold Line customers:

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14:21 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street due 16:44 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.

17:26 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington due 19:59 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.

Last Updated:15/03/2018 12:29

And the 15:22 PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains):GMV which is going to have to pick up those displaced from the cancelled 14:21 is a two car Turbo. Hearing from those who travelled on Tuesday in the same circumstances, it was crush loaded.

Further edit. Thoroughly predictable too:

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16:22 London Paddington to Great Malvern due 19:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.

19:42 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 22:31 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.
Last Updated:15/03/2018 12:49

and now the 15:52 Paddington to Moreton-in-Marsh is delayed at Paddington...
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« Reply #316 on: March 15, 2018, 21:07:00 »

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This is getting beyond a joke now. GWR (Great Western Railway) have either simply given up or don't give a **** for their Cotswold Line customers

I think both apply.  Nobody with half a chance of an alternative would use this "service" nowadays
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« Reply #317 on: March 16, 2018, 08:39:35 »

And here we go again:

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11:22 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street due 13:44 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.

13:55 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington due 16:27 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.
Last Updated:16/03/2018 08:30

[14:38 edit] and as sure as night follows day and bears doing what bears do in woods:

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16:22 London Paddington to Great Malvern due 19:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.

19:42 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 22:29 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train drivers.

Last Updated:16/03/2018 14:23

As someone posted on Twitter yesterday, "this is now deliberately provocative and indefensible behaviour by GWR (Great Western Railway)." Very hard to disagree with those sentiments.
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« Reply #318 on: March 17, 2018, 07:59:40 »

Saturday March 17:
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12:18 London Paddington to Moreton-in-Marsh due 14:00 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Last Updated:17/03/2018 03:27

13:18 London Paddington to Great Malvern due 16:04 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Last Updated:17/03/2018 03:27

14:50 Moreton-in-Marsh to London Paddington due 16:38 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Last Updated:17/03/2018 03:27

16:35 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 19:37 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Last Updated:17/03/2018 03:27

17:18 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street due 19:44 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Last Updated:17/03/2018 03:27

20:04 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington due 22:29 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Last Updated:17/03/2018 03:27

It is clearly beyond GWR (Great Western Railway) to operate the timetable as advertised at the moment.

Surely the time has come for some sort of emergency timetable, which they could run.
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« Reply #319 on: March 17, 2018, 12:24:19 »

Quote from Mark Hopwood in the latest CLPG» (Cotswold Line Promotion Group - about) newsletter:

""and I am happy to say that the 1622 service is now operating as an IET (Intercity Express Train) again"


Well if by operating they mean being regularly cancelled more often than running then this might be true!
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« Reply #320 on: March 17, 2018, 13:28:20 »

What is the cancellation rate for the 16:22 since the turn of the year?  At a guess I’d say it must be around 60% of the time.  Is there a worse train in the country currently?
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« Reply #321 on: March 17, 2018, 13:54:40 »

Don't forget that everything is supposed to be sorted by the end of March.

However, I expect to see the Easter Bunny to pop up saying April Fool.
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« Reply #322 on: March 17, 2018, 15:33:55 »

What is the cancellation rate for the 16:22 since the turn of the year?  At a guess I’d say it must be around 60% of the time.  Is there a worse train in the country currently?

It's not as bad as that even if it might seem like it. By my reckoning, it's been cancelled (or failed to get beyond Oxford) on 17 out of 54 days. Five of those in the last eight days.
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« Reply #323 on: March 17, 2018, 15:56:10 »

Quite a lot better than my initial perception then.  But still absolutely awful!
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« Reply #324 on: March 17, 2018, 16:28:03 »

And now a three-hour gap (from 16:18 to 19:18)
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This is due to a shortage of train crew.
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« Reply #325 on: March 17, 2018, 16:30:50 »

Also, 15:20 PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains)-GMV and return at 18:35 are a 2-car Turbo instead of a 3-car one.
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« Reply #326 on: March 19, 2018, 09:00:44 »

The weather has wiped out the entire London bound morning peak service:

04:47 HFD» (Hereford - next trains):PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains) cancelled
05:11 WOS» (Worcester Shrub Hill - next trains):PAD started from Oxford
05:28 HFD:PAD cancelled
06:42 HFD:PAD cancelled
07:10 MIM:PAD cancelled
08:25 WOF:PAD cancelled
09:50 MIM:PAD will be started from Reading

Seems a little dramatic given yesterday's service seemed to run without too much disruption.

(edit to add 09:50 to list)
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« Reply #327 on: March 19, 2018, 09:08:49 »

This morning only the two carriage turbo stopping service managed to run.....despite a GWR (Great Western Railway) staff member at Charlbury informing everyone who turned up for this train (as it was the only service running) that there were no trains before 10am....and that the screens and online app were wrong. Lots of people turned around and were halfway back up the hill when the train stopped at Charlbury.
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« Reply #328 on: March 19, 2018, 09:12:58 »

... the train stopped at Charlbury ...

So that's not a cancellation then  Grin Grin as far as the rail industry stats are concerned!
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« Reply #329 on: March 19, 2018, 09:48:34 »

The weather has wiped out the entire London bound morning peak service:

04:47 HFD» (Hereford - next trains):PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains) cancelled
05:11 WOS» (Worcester Shrub Hill - next trains):PAD started from Oxford
05:28 HFD:PAD cancelled
06:42 HFD:PAD cancelled
07:10 MIM:PAD cancelled
08:25 WOF:PAD cancelled
09:50 MIM:PAD will be started from Reading

Seems a little dramatic given yesterday's service seemed to run without too much disruption.

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Yesterday's service (Sunday March 18) had several trains cancelled between Paddington and Reading, but only one train cancelled between Oxford and Worcester (the 14:42 Paddington - Hereford, which started at Shrub Hill).

According to RTT» (Real Time Trains - website), several of this morning's cancellations are "due to high winds".
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