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« on: May 30, 2011, 21:23:39 »
Saw this on the FGW▸ (First Great Western) site
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00:09 Wokingham to Gatwick Airport due 01:38
This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Gatwick Airport.This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable.
Road replacement transport arranged from Redhill to Gatwick Airport
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and, perhaps cos I'm stuck in bed and bored, it got me thinking.

How are the crews worked for the last services to Gatwick at night?  Do the crews hang around the airport and then work the first services back in the morning. Looking at the timetable there seem to be two trains which run to the airport at night which have no immediate return working and similarly in the morning there are two to Reading in the morning which have no immediate incoming one.
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« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2011, 21:35:03 »
There is a small depot of guards based at redhill.  For the drivers they are contracted from Southern.  2 units stable overnight at Redhill to form the first two trains out in the morning.
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« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2011, 21:52:04 »
Interesting arrangement. 

So I assume two evening services from Gatwick are driven by Southern drivers so they can work the last two back and prevent FGW▸ (First Great Western) drivers being stuck at the wrong end.
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« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2011, 22:15:33 »
I was wondering a while back why I'd seen an SN driver in an FGW▸ (First Great Western) unit at Reading - and that was in the middle of the morning.  Perhaps a few SN drivers are allocated to the route for their entire shifts?

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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2011, 22:43:52 »
That, or it was TWOC?  Grin
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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2011, 18:54:16 »
I understood that Southern operate 5 diagrams on this route - TBC.
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« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2011, 03:53:31 »
Quote from: chris from nailsea on May 30, 2011, 22:43:52
That, or it was TWOC?  Grin


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