Apologies if I sounded agressive with my original response.
With 3 seperate power car failures this week to add to the fun and games, there are so many other elements to
FGW▸ stock control and it really isn't as simple as chartering another train or pulling stock out of the air.
I believe FGW want to make their customers as happy as possible, and everyone was well aware of how busy last weekend would be, so i'm sure anything that can be done to make things easier would have been.
On a side note, while I appreciate some are restricted to school holidays, last time I checked kids were off for 6 weeks, so I still don't understand why the massive rush to the South-West for weekend 1 of the holidays