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« on: October 22, 2022, 09:53:56 »

From Mark Hopwood at yesterday's TravelWatch SouthWest:



Purple - GWR (Great Western Railway) (our TOC (Train Operating Company)) issues
Blue - Network Rail issues
Green - TOC on TOC (SWR» (South Western Railway - about), Cross Country, TfW, freight, and perhaps others holding up or blocking GWR trains)

I can't help wondering whether the diagram should show all failures to provide what's in the published May to December timetable - as I understand it, the cutoff is a few days ahead so that trains cancelled due to industrial action by GWR and Network Rail employees do not show, and the picture above is a false (massaged) statistic.   I think I am happy that trains replaced by alternative services of buses during engineering works planned months in advance don't show up in this chart.
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« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2022, 10:00:34 »

So you’d need another colour? Staff on TOC (Train Operating Company)….
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« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2022, 10:34:42 »

So you’d need another colour? Staff on TOC (Train Operating Company)….

Perhaps - or include staffing unavailability in Network Rail or TOC (problem when both lots are taking indusrial action

There are plenty more colours available ... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Colours/Alphabetical_listing

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pansy
paprika
Paris green
patina
peach
peacock blue
pea green
pear
pearl grey
pearly
periwinkle
perse
petrol blue
petunia
pewter
piceous
pillar-box red
pineapple
pine green
pink
pistachio green
platinum
platinum blond
plum
pomegranate
Pompeian red
poppy
powder blue
primrose
Prussian blue
puce
puke
purple
purpure
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