Journeycheck:
Alterations to services at Westbury
Due to severe weather earlier at Westbury:
Train services running through this station may be revised. Westbury will not be served. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer Advice
It is unsafe to call high speed trains at Westbury station due to structural damage to the station roof following the recent storms. Customers who wish to alight at Westbury who are travelling on services between London, Reading and the South West- in both directions- are required to alight at Castle Cary. Alternative transport has been arranged to convey customers between Castle Cary and Westbury.
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21:04 London Paddington to Plymouth due 00:43 will no longer call at Westbury.
This is due to severe weather earlier.
My italics.
Several observations:
Westbury
will not be served... except that
some Portsmouth or Weymouth trains were calling (as was the 21:06 Exeter-Bristol via Westbury which made an additional call at Castle Cary).
There is no advice for passengers from the Bath, Salisbury or Weymouth directions should their train be missing Westbury.
It appears that the 21:04 Paddington
did call at Westbury platform 1. This was the only 5 car
IET▸ service following the closure of platforms 2 and 3.
Platform 1 was not lengthened to accommodate full-length IETs. Do the IETs not have a manual
SDO▸ option?