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« Reply #105 on: August 17, 2015, 17:23:16 »

Due to a change in our data feed, information is at present not being provided.

No e.t.a. to fix - just be aware that I'm aware!
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« Reply #106 on: August 17, 2015, 17:56:13 »

Due to a change in our data feed, information is at present not being provided.

No e.t.a. to fix - just be aware that I'm aware!

Oh fun ... quite a bit of work for me to fix that, including installing some extra software on the server!
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« Reply #107 on: August 25, 2015, 22:24:47 »

Due to a change in our data feed, information is at present not being provided.

No e.t.a. to fix - just be aware that I'm aware!

Oh fun ... quite a bit of work for me to fix that, including installing some extra software on the server!

OK ... there's something back - haven't (yet?) split amends from cancels, but at least gives a quick idea.   May be buggy - I am watching it ...
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« Reply #108 on: August 28, 2015, 01:04:41 »

Very many thanks for your 'behind the scenes' work on producing that upgrade, grahame!  Wink
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« Reply #109 on: June 07, 2016, 22:50:32 »

And I have just pulled Radley in from somewhere near the Fastnet Rock to somewhere between Didcot and Oxford.  Certainly a new place for a service to start ... I wonder how many more possibles are still missing ...
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« Reply #110 on: June 07, 2016, 22:58:50 »

I maybe imagining it, but did cancellations used to be a different colour line? Now all the same colour, blue.
Would be better if cancellations were a different colour.
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« Reply #111 on: June 07, 2016, 23:16:38 »

I maybe imagining it, but did cancellations used to be a different colour line? Now all the same colour, blue.
Would be better if cancellations were a different colour.

About 95% of the time cancellations were read and changes were blue (and at one time formation changes were a lighter blue). However, getting up from 95% to 99.9% proved illusive, and it was felt better to supply a little less but accurate information rather than more information but sometimes wrong.
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« Reply #112 on: January 13, 2018, 11:00:28 »

What's happening in Cornwall at the moment? Are there a lot of short workings or cancellations?
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« Reply #113 on: January 13, 2018, 11:15:25 »

What's happening in Cornwall at the moment? Are there a lot of short workings or cancellations?

The Sterth to Stives line has a single 153 on it rather than a 2 car, and as it runs every half hour each way it's giving us a blue-out.

For January (but NOT beyond and into half term) a single carriage on some of the Cornish branches will in all honesty cope with traffic offered;   I'm not sure what was running there this time last year, but I have noted that our cancellation map is sensitive to 2 car trains becoming 1 - even where one car was the norm as recently as this time last month.
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« Reply #114 on: January 13, 2018, 13:53:17 »

Ah, I was intrigued by that large blue blob as well, and the thick line between Cardiff and Portsmouth. I checked that on NR» (Network Rail - home page) and GWR (Great Western Railway)'s websites and all was shown as running normally, so I assume those are also reduced formation trains rather than cancellations?
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« Reply #115 on: January 15, 2018, 05:33:20 »

Ah, I was intrigued by that large blue blob as well, and the thick line between Cardiff and Portsmouth. I checked that on NR» (Network Rail - home page) and GWR (Great Western Railway)'s websites and all was shown as running normally, so I assume those are also reduced formation trains rather than cancellations?

Big blue-outs again in Cornwall today - no cancellations; they indicate 1 car rather than 2 on the St Ives and Newquay branches

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Facilities on the 09:17 Par to Newquay due 10:09.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
Will be formed of 1 coach instead of 2.

If you click on the "Train Running" link blow the map, you'll get a new tab with full details from Journey Check which shows the details, even if other sources don't

I would be surprised if the use of a 153 on these lines today (or indeed this week) is going to cause severe overcrowding.   We remain in a tight stock flux situation, with a trickle of 150/1s and HSTs (High Speed Train) out of the franchise, with more turbos than usual undergoing service and mods to make them suitable for use in The West, with IETs (Intercity Express Train) trickling in, and with 2+4 castles somewhat later than had been planned.

I took a look yesterday at colour coding the map (as we used to do), but the current data feed format means that would require significant time / work on my past;  too much else going on I'm afraid to do something that would be nice but isn't vital, and a great danger of ending up with something broken.   If it ain't bust, don't fix it - HOWEVER our data feed is an old technology one, and one of these years the disruption map may break.
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« Reply #116 on: January 15, 2018, 09:34:25 »

Ah, I was intrigued by that large blue blob as well, and the thick line between Cardiff and Portsmouth. I checked that on NR» (Network Rail - home page) and GWR (Great Western Railway)'s websites and all was shown as running normally, so I assume those are also reduced formation trains rather than cancellations?

Big blue-outs again in Cornwall today - no cancellations; they indicate 1 car rather than 2 on the St Ives and Newquay branches

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09:17 Par to Newquay due 10:09
Facilities on the 09:17 Par to Newquay due 10:09.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
Will be formed of 1 coach instead of 2.

If you click on the "Train Running" link blow the map, you'll get a new tab with full details from Journey Check which shows the details, even if other sources don't

I would be surprised if the use of a 153 on these lines today (or indeed this week) is going to cause severe overcrowding.   We remain in a tight stock flux situation, with a trickle of 150/1s and HSTs (High Speed Train) out of the franchise, with more turbos than usual undergoing service and mods to make them suitable for use in The West, with IETs (Intercity Express Train) trickling in, and with 2+4 castles somewhat later than had been planned.

I took a look yesterday at colour coding the map (as we used to do), but the current data feed format means that would require significant time / work on my past;  too much else going on I'm afraid to do something that would be nice but isn't vital, and a great danger of ending up with something broken.   If it ain't bust, don't fix it - HOWEVER our data feed is an old technology one, and one of these years the disruption map may break.

More cancellation maps than usual needing repair?  Wink
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« Reply #117 on: June 18, 2018, 05:46:13 »

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07:18 London Paddington to Oxford Down Carriage Sdg due 08:38
07:18 London Paddington to Oxford Down Carriage Sdg due 08:38 will be terminated at Oxford.
It will no longer call at Oxford Down Carriage Sdg.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

Noting that our cancellation map at the head of these pages thinks that Oxford Down Carriage Sdg is somewhere near Fastnet rock.

I'm seeing this as a data feed error (I don't recall a passenger station at "Oxford Down Carriage Sdg") and I will leave the data in error until the problem goes away after the train has run (or not run).   Should this be a repeated glitch that spoils the map again at a later date, I will look at adding a fix.
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« Reply #118 on: June 18, 2018, 09:09:36 »

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07:18 London Paddington to Oxford Down Carriage Sdg due 08:38
07:18 London Paddington to Oxford Down Carriage Sdg due 08:38 will be terminated at Oxford.
It will no longer call at Oxford Down Carriage Sdg.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

Noting that our cancellation map at the head of these pages thinks that Oxford Down Carriage Sdg is somewhere near Fastnet rock.

I'm seeing this as a data feed error (I don't recall a passenger station at "Oxford Down Carriage Sdg") and I will leave the data in error until the problem goes away after the train has run (or not run).   Should this be a repeated glitch that spoils the map again at a later date, I will look at adding a fix.
I was on that train and I don't think it went to the Down Carriage Sidings because it appears to have returned to London as 1Z41 from Platform 3 (it arrived in platform 4) 8 minutes later. I am assuming it can head back towards London without having entered the sidings.
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« Reply #119 on: June 18, 2018, 12:45:46 »

Didcot West End as well

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It will no longer call at Didcot West End.
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