This morning that 09.04 Maidenhead to Paddington was 16 minutes late arriving at Paddington.. We crawled from West Drayton all the way to just past old oak common and then speeded up again.. No announcements were made to help us know what was going on. I suspected congestion, but then why did we speed up again!

Does anyone know the reason for this morning's delay?

And then, tonight the 17.44 Paddington to Maidenhead arrived in Maidenhead 14 minutes late.. Again, no announcements! I suspect we were following a stopper, but does anyone know the reason for this delay? Also the train was supposed to go on to Bourne End at 18.15ish but was delayed at Maidenhead and became the 18.47 to Bourne End instead. That must have been nice for the people who had to sit on it for 20 minutes or so... Assuming they didn't work out it would have been faster in a taxi that is...

So FGW had 30 minutes of my time today! It had all been going so well up until today! And the lack of announcements didn't help...

At about 07:40 as we crawled along the up main past Ealing Broadway I noticed that a 2-car Turbo (presumably the Greenford shuttle?) was coming to a stand at a red signal on the up relief while ahead of that some orange-suited track staff were examining the points which allow access into Acton Yard. I don't know if that was the main cause of problems or just something else on a bad morning?
 

Probably a a loo flushing.