The 08:45 from Swindon was five minutes late leaving to allow a late running service from Bristol to go in front.
I believe it was a late train from London to Bristol that went in front of the TransWilts service.
That being the case, any passengers off that delayed London train wishing to connect onto the TransWilts train would have been able to successfully make their connection at Chippenham.
Once you have late-running, surely it’s inevitable that some (but not necessarily all) connections will end up being broken?
Totally so - and there's a balance to be made - considerations being
* Incoming connections, especially
to infrequent services
* Delays to local passengers holding connections
* Delays to subsequent services where turn around are tight
* Delayed services getting in the way of other services in an unscheduled way
* Ongoing connections, especially
to infrequent services
The only real 'issue' the other day would have been for passengers for South Wales beyond Cardiff - and that would have been a very minor flow and "just one of those things". The much bigger problems are delay of other trains for people coming
onto the sporadic TransWilts service, and people connecting at Westbury for Weymouth, and for Taunton and stations beyond.
