Interesting additional weekend Bristol-London Pad services (late April 2011)

[Mookiemoo]

Yes the 0447 doesn't stop at Bath.  And runs via Parkway.

Its done that for at least 9 months - since I moved down in fact!

[XPT]

Yes the 0447 doesn't stop at Bath.  And runs via Parkway.

Its done that for at least 9 months - since I moved down in fact!

That 0447 service via Parkway has been running for ages.  At least over a year. Not really that interesting a service anyway. Stopping at Parkway, Swindon, Didcot, Reading, and London.

[rogerpatenall]

Is anyone else having difficulty accessing table 135 in the Forthcoming Timetable section of the National Rail electronic table? I get a 'page not found' message, altho all other tables open correctly. Have sent an email query which was acknowledged, but no explanation as to whether it is a general or specific to me glitch.

[bignosemac]

Page 1 (of 4059!) of the forthcoming eNRT has the following message:

This download is provided as a draft of the Forthcoming Timetable.

Tables yet to be uploaded are:

11, 117, 130, 135, 135E, 218

Other tables may be subject to change.

The next update to this document will be Sunday 15 May 2011.

[XPT]

Am looking out every week for any upcoming services like these again.  So far still none on the horizon(up untill early June).  A shame that such services are so rare due to the rarity of major engineering works on the Taunton-Castle Cary line.  Last time was last year(2011), before that it was 2008.  So it looks like it won't be till 2014 till the next ones.  Only another 2 years wait!

Bring back the Bristol-London express services!