Skipping Dilton Marsh

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[grahame]

15:28 Warminster to Great Malvern due 18:35 will no longer call at Dilton Marsh and Avoncliff.
This is due to a fault on this train.

That will be 'fun' ... around 30 people usually get off that train at Dilton Marsh ... it's the busiest one of the day carrying school traffic (I have checked - term ends tomorrow!) from Warminster ... almost always people joining too.

[grahame]

17:11 Westbury to Warminster due 17:20
17:11 Westbury to Warminster due 17:20 will no longer call at Dilton Marsh.
This is due to a fault on this train.
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Which renders the 17:11 Westbury to Warminster POINTLESS!.

There's a train that runs from Westbury to Warminster at 17:02 carrying lots of though passengers, and the 17:11 is never - err - [understatement mode=British]the busiest of trains[/understatement] ...

I do appreciate that as well as meeting the franchise requirement for stops at Dilton Marsh (if it can actually stop there!), this train does turn round at Warminster and form a better used train (17:28) coming back.  But that return train really should be an extension of the service from Romsey to Southampton that terminates at Salisbury at 17:15 and should really carry on, calling at Warminster at 17:35 ...

[froome]

How does a 'fault on the train' stop it from stopping at an intermediate station?

Presumably it can move along, and stop, otherwise it wouldn't be running at all, so what is actually preventing it from stopping at Dilton Marsh?

[paul7575]

How does a 'fault on the train' stop it from stopping at an intermediate station?

Presumably it can move along, and stop, otherwise it wouldn't be running at all, so what is actually preventing it from stopping at Dilton Marsh?

Incomplete door control modifications on the Turbo fleet isn’t it?  Been going on for a while.

Paul

[grahame]

How does a 'fault on the train' stop it from stopping at an intermediate station?

Presumably it can move along, and stop, otherwise it wouldn't be running at all, so what is actually preventing it from stopping at Dilton Marsh?

Incomplete door control modifications on the Turbo fleet isn’t it?  Been going on for a while.

Paul

You're correct Paul ... Incomplete door control + Short platform + Lack of a stop board forward of the platform to tell the driver where to stop correctly for the door on the left of the rear coach and the rear drive door to be on the platform.   That latter should be possible at the southbound platform; northbound the distance between the doors is greater and so it may not be possible.