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« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2024, 17:44:41 »
Quote from: ChrisB on January 08, 2024, 16:35:21
Only one of those it seems will call at Didcot - the one that states that it does - otherwise the others would too.

So on its own, it won't release a turbo.

Regardless, it would need to operate several more trips a day to release a Turbo anyway.
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« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2024, 19:22:58 »
Hi all,

Found an interesting article stating that GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) are planning to run direct IET▸ (Intercity Express Train) services from Bristol Temple Meads to Oxford via Didcot Parkway. I have attached the article below. What does everyone think about these plans? I think it would be very beneficial for passengers travelling down from Bristol and stations in between and it would be an effective way to get more people using the rail network.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24035352.new-direct-swindon-oxford-trains-planned-great-western-railway/?ref=fbshr&fbclid=IwAR3DWWG1r_EqrqsTeDZZ_LZPwC9zfPCtj1kZ0JM-eWcXYxGsFakbBaXq9CU

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« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2024, 19:39:29 »
Quote from: GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) 158 on January 08, 2024, 19:22:58
Hi all,

Found an interesting article stating that GWR are planning to run direct IET▸ (Intercity Express Train) services from Bristol Temple Meads to Oxford via Didcot Parkway. I have attached the article below. What does everyone think about these plans? I think it would be very beneficial for passengers travelling down from Bristol and stations in between and it would be an effective way to get more people using the rail network.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24035352.new-direct-swindon-oxford-trains-planned-great-western-railway/?ref=fbshr&fbclid=IwAR3DWWG1r_EqrqsTeDZZ_LZPwC9zfPCtj1kZ0JM-eWcXYxGsFakbBaXq9CU

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Yep, I have moved a couple of things around and merged that with a topic that started a couple of days ago "Across the  West" to keep all the discussions together.  This board is probably the right one for it - it's so long since we had this much-wanted service that it had go into the  more general place!
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« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2024, 06:56:18 »
Will it be flood proof?
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« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2024, 10:32:51 »
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Will it be flood proof?

Kennington (south of Oxford) hasn’t shut for flooding since alleviation works were carried out some years ago.  The route to Bristol via Box does close for flooding occasionally but is nowhere near as vulnerable as the route via Chipping Sodbury.
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« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2024, 22:05:47 »
Interesting to see Swindon, Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads all in the top 15 ticketed passenger flows from Oxford http://www.passenger.chat/flows.html?stn=3115 . Chippenham is in the top 50 too.  Really a good flow considering the Didcot Dance that has to be done to make these journeys.
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« Reply #21 on: February 05, 2024, 07:13:59 »
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Really a good flow considering the Didcot Dance that has to be done to make these journeys.

Certainly busy on Saturday with Reading playing at Oxford, almost got trampled as the herd migrated between platforms.
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« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2024, 16:50:33 »
GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) confirm that the services to which this thread refers are *not* stopping at Didcot & are all using the west curve. In both directions.

Being run with a 5car IET▸ (Intercity Express Train) GWR said yesterday.
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« Reply #23 on: March 07, 2024, 21:21:04 »
Quote from: ChrisB on March 07, 2024, 16:50:33
GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) confirm that the services to which this thread refers are *not* stopping at Didcot & are all using the west curve. In both directions.

Being run with a 5car IET▸ (Intercity Express Train) GWR said yesterday.

That is helpful, and very interesting.
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