Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 13:35 28 Mar 2024
* Man held over stabbing in front of train passengers
- How do I renew my UK passport and what is the 10-year rule?
- Easter travel warning as millions set to hit roads
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]
 02/06/24 - Summer Timetable starts
17/08/24 - Bus to Imber
27/09/25 - 200 years of passenger trains

On this day
28th Mar (1988)
Woman found murdered on Orpington to London train (*)

Train RunningCancelled
11:23 Weston-Super-Mare to London Paddington
11:50 Cardiff Central to London Paddington
12:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central
12:30 London Paddington to Weston-Super-Mare
13:00 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington
13:15 Swindon to Westbury
13:26 Weston-Super-Mare to London Paddington
13:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads
14:19 Westbury to Swindon
15:14 Swindon to Westbury
Short Run
08:03 London Paddington to Penzance
10:55 Paignton to London Paddington
11:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
11:29 Weymouth to Gloucester
11:48 London Paddington to Carmarthen
12:03 London Paddington to Penzance
12:12 Salisbury to Bristol Temple Meads
12:42 Bristol Temple Meads to Salisbury
12:46 Avonmouth to Weston-Super-Mare
13:03 London Paddington to Plymouth
13:07 Salisbury to Bristol Temple Meads
13:10 Gloucester to Weymouth
13:26 Okehampton to Exeter Central
14:05 Salisbury to Bristol Temple Meads
16:19 Carmarthen to London Paddington
Delayed
10:04 London Paddington to Penzance
10:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
11:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
12:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
14:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
PollsOpen and recent polls
Closed 2024-03-25 Easter Escape - to where?
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple MeadsBath SpaChippenhamSwindonDidcot ParkwayReadingLondon PaddingtonMelksham
Exeter St DavidsTauntonWestburyTrowbridgeBristol ParkwayCardiff CentralOxfordCheltenham SpaBirmingham New Street
March 28, 2024, 13:41:48 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[142] West Wiltshire Bus Changes April 2024
[80] would you like your own LIVE train station departure board?
[56] Return of the BRUTE?
[46] If not HS2 to Manchester, how will traffic be carried?
[43] Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption el...
[34] Reversing Beeching - bring heritage and freight lines into the...
 
News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Pages: 1 [2] 3
  Print  
Author Topic: Another Bristol Parkway Closure - for three weeks  (Read 8976 times)
CMRail
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 400


View Profile
« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2018, 17:18:57 »

Four Track Swindon to Didcot, Now!
Logged
TonyK
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 6435


The artist formerly known as Four Track, Now!


View Profile
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2018, 19:59:03 »

What user name are you going to have in January 2019, FTN?..... Smiley

You know, that's been keeping me awake some afternoons already - it took me long enough to come up with the moniker in the first place. I have already amended it, by the addition of the comma, so it's a bit tricky. I was going to involve a branding consultant I found in Yellow Pages, until he showed me the irons.
Logged

Now, please!
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2018, 20:23:44 »

... by the addition of the comma ...

And gosh did that put a roadblock in the way of my "most liked" software as I can't simply count commas and add one!
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
martyjon
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 1941


View Profile
« Reply #18 on: September 06, 2018, 20:42:48 »

What user name are you going to have in January 2019, FTN?..... Smiley
You know, that's been keeping me awake some afternoons already - it took me long enough to come up with the moniker in the first place. I have already amended it, by the addition of the comma, so it's a bit tricky. I was going to involve a branding consultant I found in Yellow Pages, until he showed me the irons.


Solved, Four Tracked, Now !!!!
Logged
TonyK
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 6435


The artist formerly known as Four Track, Now!


View Profile
« Reply #19 on: September 06, 2018, 20:49:44 »

Solved, Four Tracked, Now !!!!

Four exclamation marks now seems a little racy for a man of my tender years, but I'll think about it!
Logged

Now, please!
ReWind
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 341


View Profile
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2018, 20:58:05 »

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here, but I was wondering how the IET (Intercity Express Train)'s are accessing Stoke Gifford depot during the BPW» (Bristol Parkway - next trains) blockade?

I was under the impression the whole of the BPW station area was closed today and for the foreseeable for electrification works, but I still see the empty IET's are still able to exit and enter Stoke Gifford depot, like this one;

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/V20152/2018/09/15/advanced
Logged

Here, there and Everywhere!!
martyjon
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 1941


View Profile
« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2018, 21:34:35 »

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here, but I was wondering how the IET (Intercity Express Train)'s are accessing Stoke Gifford depot during the BPW» (Bristol Parkway - next trains) blockade?

I was under the impression the whole of the BPW station area was closed today and for the foreseeable for electrification works, but I still see the empty IET's are still able to exit and enter Stoke Gifford depot, like this one;

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/V20152/2018/09/15/advanced


An IEP (Intercity Express Program / Project.) can exit Stoke Gifford Depot onto any 1 of 6 lines, the down loop, No1, 2, 3 and 4 platform lines and the up loop and when all track alterations are complete be able to access all of the six lines from the Bristol direction too.
I expect special arrangements are in force to allow for at least two of the aforementioned lines to be available for ECS (Empty Coaching Stock) movements at all times.
Logged
simonw
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 589


View Profile Email
« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2018, 18:55:32 »

Well, it has taken two days for me to confirm that me choice of local buses over Network Rails|GWR (Great Western Railway) bus replacement programme was the correct one.

Colleagues at work that have struggled with bus replacemernts from Yate to Filton Abbeywood/Patchway and journeys onto Bristol Temple Meads report delays and severe overcrowding.

Why couldn't they arrange with First Bus to run direct buses from Bristol Parkway to Bristol Temple Meads for the three weeks. Say every 15 minutes?
« Last Edit: September 19, 2018, 21:48:17 by simonw » Logged
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2018, 19:19:54 »

Sadly, cost often seems to take precedence over giving customers a service that's as close as can be reasonably achieved to their normal commute.  And it really feels that all the warning literature ahead of time is a convenient double edged sword - it both alerts people so they're not taken by surprise (good) and is perhaps intended to put them off their journeys so that replacement transport can still cope even if there's not very much of it.

I'm analysing ahead to Christmas - what could be done and what is planned to be done.  I have a journey that normally takes 28 minutes and could stay at that, but is going up to 40. A journey that normally takes 41 going up to 73 when it only need go up to 52, and so on.  Oh - my figures are being kind and optimistic to GWR (Great Western Railway) - I'm assuming that bus to train and train to bus connections really are connections.  I've allowed 8 minutes, even though I know that it's been up to 40 in the past; so far I only have routings, not timetables.
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
WelshBluebird
Transport Scholar
Sr. Member
******
Posts: 158


View Profile Email
« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2018, 16:05:53 »

I was already planning on changing to the local buses when the Severn Beach line gets replacement buses when travelling to and from my girlfriends. simonw, your assessment of the current situation when the current blockade is less disruptive than what the Filton Bank blockade will be is a further push for me to go in that direction!
Logged
johnneyw
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 2257


From station to station, back to Bristol city....


View Profile
« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2018, 18:22:08 »

I was already planning on changing to the local buses when the Severn Beach line gets replacement buses when travelling to and from my girlfriends. simonw, your assessment of the current situation when the current blockade is less disruptive than what the Filton Bank blockade will be is a further push for me to go in that direction!

I say! How many girlfriends do you have on the Severn Beach Line? 😀
Logged
TonyK
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 6435


The artist formerly known as Four Track, Now!


View Profile
« Reply #26 on: September 20, 2018, 18:44:38 »

Well, it has taken two days for me to confirm that me choice of local buses over Network Rails|GWR (Great Western Railway) bus replacement programme was the correct one.

Colleagues at work that have struggled with bus replacemernts from Yate to Filton Abbeywood/Patchway and journeys onto Bristol Temple Meads report delays and severe overcrowding.

Why couldn't they arrange with First Bus to run direct buses from Bristol Parkway to Bristol Temple Meads for the three weeks. Say every 15 minutes?


What, and prove that MetroBust could operate from Parkway without another major round of road-building? That government funding isn't easy to come by, you know.
Logged

Now, please!
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40690



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2018, 21:31:44 »

Why couldn't they arrange with First Bus to run direct buses from Bristol Parkway to Bristol Temple Meads for the three weeks. Say every 15 minutes?

Suggestion from an informed source suggests that they fear them getting stuck in traffic around Temple Meads.  Still road works going on around Temple Gate?
Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
metalrail
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 189


View Profile
« Reply #28 on: September 20, 2018, 22:57:56 »

Quote
Suggestion from an informed source suggests that they fear them getting stuck in traffic around Temple Meads.  Still road works going on around Temple Gate?

Yep the never ending roadworks around Temple Gate / Temple Circus...  or whatever they call it this time when the latest road scheme is finished

Another backwards step having removed the 'temporary' flyover to Redcliffe that did such an amazing job for so many more years than it was designed for!
Logged

Oh for the day when I can catch a train from Mangotsfield to the Centre, Bath and Yate!  ;-)
Phantom
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 484



View Profile
« Reply #29 on: September 21, 2018, 10:47:49 »

I was already planning on changing to the local buses when the Severn Beach line gets replacement buses when travelling to and from my girlfriends. simonw, your assessment of the current situation when the current blockade is less disruptive than what the Filton Bank blockade will be is a further push for me to go in that direction!

I say! How many girlfriends do you have on the Severn Beach Line? 😀

One in every port..... Sorry - station  Shocked Shocked
Logged
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: 1 [2] 3
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules (email link to report). Forum hosted by Well House Consultants

Jump to top of pageJump to Forum Home Page