Signalling problems at Gloucester, 12th March 2010

Deltic

Full Member

Posts: 95

Signalling problems at Gloucester, 12th March 2010

« on: March 12, 2010, 18:05:34 »

It seems that they had problems at Gloucester this afternoon with both the 16.31 Cheltenham to Paddington and the 14.51 Great Malvern to Weymouth being delayed by 20 to 30 minutes. As a result of this both are missing stops, with the former running fast from Swindon to Paddington and the latter ran non-stop from Temple Meads to Westbury. Is this a sensible decision to minimise disruption to other services or a cynical ploy to reach the destination within 10 minutes of booked time and thereby avoid financial penalties?


	Logged

devon_metro

Hero Member

Posts: 5175

Re: Signalling problems at Gloucester, 12th March 2010

« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2010, 18:11:37 »

Sensible considering there is a Paddington train from Swindon at 1759 calling Didcot & Reading.


	Logged

Oxman

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 423

Re: Signalling problems at Gloucester, 12th March 2010

« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2010, 18:42:17 »

And don't forget that the set will turn round at Paddington to form a Friday evening down service - which I imagine would be very busy. Turnround times at Paddington are tight in the evening peak, so much better to get the set into Paddington in good time to turn round, without serious disruption to the Friday evening peak service and without delaying the down service.


	Logged

Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

Pages: [1]

« previous next »