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TaplowGreen
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« on: April 26, 2019, 14:57:57 »

Could be a very unpleasant Friday peak.......thoughts with all involved.....

Cancellations to services between Didcot Parkway and Swindon
Due to a person being hit by a train between Didcot Parkway and Swindon all lines are blocked.
Train services running through these stations may be cancelled or delayed by up to 60 minutes. Disruption is expected until 17:00 26/04.
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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2019, 16:09:06 »

All lines re-opened just before 4pm but likely to be some severe delays for a while. 

The 13:45 from Paddington to Swansea has just left Didcot Parkway after sitting there for 90 minutes as an example.
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2019, 17:42:15 »

Delays now expected until 1800
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« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2019, 10:29:29 »

The 13:45 from Paddington to Swansea has just left Didcot Parkway after sitting there for 90 minutes as an example.
That ended up nearly 2 hours down and was overtaken by the 1445, which was diverted via the Berks and Hants, called additionally at Bath (for Swindon), and reversed at Bristol Parkway.

Weird disparate treatment of stations there come to think of it. People from Swindon can be expected to cross over to the other side at Bath, but Bristol Parkway somehow merits a time-wasting reversal when they could be transferred to a local train from the same platform at either Stapleton Road or Filton Abbey Wood – in the latter case, probably a better station for walking or taking buses to where many of these South Gloucestershireites actually live.

But seeing as everything in Cardiff was already messed up by a bridge strike, I took the sensible decision of waiting things out in Wetherspoons until I could see that a convenient train (1615 from Pad) was leaving Newport, then going and excessing to First Class. So a reasonably pleasant Friday peak for me.
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« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2019, 11:09:30 »

From today's Swindon Advertiser:
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17612922.family-devastated-after-swindon-journalist-hit-by-train/
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