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« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2019, 17:51:24 »

According to twitter responses, SWR» (South Western Railway - about) not passing GWR (Great Western Railway) tickets to London owing to strike timetable ie fewer trains
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« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2019, 19:17:21 »

According to twitter responses, SWR» (South Western Railway - about) not passing GWR (Great Western Railway) tickets to London owing to strike timetable ie fewer trains

There is no strike today, just chaos because "the trains are in the wrong places".

You genuinely couldn't make it up.
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« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2019, 20:25:37 »

Presumably this is just GWR (Great Western Railway) Advanced tickets. Because every other ticket is valid from either Waterloo or Paddington to Reading. One has to buy one's Underground fare normally.
I assume that SWR» (South Western Railway - about) get a small percentage of every ticket LON-RDG(resolve) because of this.

Was caught up in this today on the way home. If I had known before arriving on the platform at PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains) I would have gone to Chiltern at Marylebone and argued my case.
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« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2019, 00:23:45 »

It was still causing problems past 21-00. Eventually I caught a train that got me back home in time to be the last person to vote at my polling station - 21-59:30!
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« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2019, 07:11:44 »

It will be interesting to see what TfL» (Transport for London - about) Rail has to offer in any way different to current policy on reducing accidents at Taplow etc.
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« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2019, 11:09:01 »

It will be interesting to see what TfL» (Transport for London - about) Rail has to offer in any way different to current policy on reducing accidents at Taplow etc.

TFL (Transport for London) have been manning the station from first to last in advance of Sunday. There was certainly somone there Wednesday at 16:15.

The waitng room on platform 3 was open. Warm Bright and Clean.
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« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2019, 11:42:59 »

It will be interesting to see what TfL» (Transport for London - about) Rail has to offer in any way different to current policy on reducing accidents at Taplow etc.

TFL (Transport for London) have been manning the station from first to last in advance of Sunday. There was certainly somone there Wednesday at 16:15.

The waitng room on platform 3 was open. Warm Bright and Clean.

Taplow station has changed beyond recognition (for the better) since TfL took over, and that's no disrespect to Ted whom we all admired!
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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2019, 13:40:05 »

There is no strike today, just chaos because "the trains are in the wrong places".

You genuinely couldn't make it up.

SWR» (South Western Railway - about) made no attempt at running a normal timetable - trhey continued with the strike timetable and paid all their staff too
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2019, 13:45:27 »

SWR» (South Western Railway - about) made no attempt at running a normal timetable - trhey continued with the strike timetable and paid all their staff too
Would have been difficult to have done so for just one day and the RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) would have known that.
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2019, 22:50:59 »

Well they published a ‘running timetable’ for a month in advance so if they failed to get out of bed that day it makes them look even worse than they actually are. Which is pretty awful to start.
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