First Great Western - current and recent issues

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This diagram shows late notice cancellations and other changes to First Great Western train services, as notified within the last two hours.
Trains are shown from start to end point "as the crow flies" ...

Events that may stop you travelling as you intended ...
Red - Cancelled Completely (0)
Blue - Short working (0)
Green - Skipping Stops (0)

Events that may othewise degrade your journey
Orange - Short train (0)
Yellow - Catering Change (0)
Grey - Other change (e.g. extra stops, reinstated)

The thicker the line, the more services affected. Trains shown with a coloured dot at their endpoints have already completed their journeys (or were scheduled to have done so!). Trains shown with a black dot are still timetabled to be running, or may not yet have started their journey.

The numbers of services indicated by the totals above may be in excess of the number show to the right. This is because a train that (say) has no buffet and is only running part of its route will just be coloured to the right for "partial route" only.

Links on the right marked "more" provide links for services that are not running their full route only

Road Delays are shown by coloured spots ...

* Accident (0 at present)
* Obstruction or other short term incident (0 at present)
* Heavy Traffic (0 at present)
* Resurfacing
* Roadworks and other reported matters

The size of the marker shown gives an indication of how severe the congestion may be - our data feed describes the delays as "moderate" and "severe" and we increase the marker sizes to emphasise these as appropriate.
Data timed at Tuesday 16th March 2010 00:51 - Please log in for more recent data

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Affected trains:
20:59 Worcester Foregate Street to 23:37 London Paddington
20:20 London Paddington to 22:57 Great Malvern
18:03 London Paddington to 23:12 Penzance
A total of 3 trains

To see the full official report of each train currently being reported, see here on the official First Great Western site. To see a report (text only) for the last 48 hours, see here on the Save the Train site.

This page is provided by a customer of First Great Western using freely available information. We also host the First Great Western Coffeeshop - a forum where customers of First Great Western can discuss issues relating to trains and travel in the Thames Valley, South West of England, Cotswolds and South Wales. Whilst every attempt has been made to ensure that this page is accurate, we cannot take any responsibility for any shortfall on data or errors that creep in.

Note - I wrote this page as a demonstration to show some features in use on our PHP courses that we run in Melksham, in Wiltshire - a town of 24,000 from which First have withdrawn most trains, leaving us with just 2 each way daily. Some 40% of our customers used to arrive in the town by train ... but now it's the car, the bus or the taxi. What a shame - and what a shortsighted decision by someone (not necessarily First)!
Road reports from The Highways Agency ... These are reports on the area shown on the map in England; they include data for areas shown in the rectangle even if they are not served by First Great Western trains, and we do not have data for Wales. [EXPANDED list]

Heavy Congestion
None at present

Moderate Congestion
      M3 Surrey | Eastbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M3 Surrey | Westbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M5 South Gloucestershire | Northbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M40 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M6 West Midlands | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M6 West Midlands | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M42 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M6 West Midlands | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M42 West Midlands | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M42 Worcestershire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M42 Worcestershire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M40 Warwickshire | Southbound | Resurfacing, road closed
      M42 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M1 Northamptonshire | Southbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed

Others
      A3 Surrey | Northbound | Roadworks
      M3 Hampshire | Eastbound | Roadworks
      M3 Hampshire | Westbound | Roadworks
      M3 Hampshire | Eastbound | Roadworks
      M27 Hampshire | Westbound | Roadworks
      M27 Hampshire | Eastbound | Roadworks
      M3 Surrey | Westbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M3 Surrey | Westbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M27 Hampshire | Westbound | Barrier repairs, 2 lanes closed
      M27 Hampshire | Eastbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M3 Hampshire | Westbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M3 Surrey | Westbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M27 Hampshire | Westbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M3 Surrey | Westbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M3 Hampshire | Westbound | Roadworks
      M3 Hampshire | Eastbound | Roadworks
      A3 Surrey | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A27 Hampshire | Eastbound | Roadworks
      A27 Hampshire | Westbound | Roadworks
      M5 South Gloucestershire | Southbound | Roadworks
      M5 South Gloucestershire | Southbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M5 South Gloucestershire | Northbound | Roadworks
      M5 South Gloucestershire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M5 South Gloucestershire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M4 Wiltshire | Eastbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M4 South Gloucestershire | Westbound | Roadworks
      M4 South Gloucestershire | Eastbound | Roadworks
      M5 Gloucestershire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M5 Devon | Southbound | Roadworks
      A417 Gloucestershire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M5 Somerset | Southbound | Roadworks
      M5 South Gloucestershire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M5 South Gloucestershire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M5 Gloucestershire | Southbound | Roadworks
      M4 Wiltshire | Eastbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M5 South Gloucestershire | Southbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      A35 Dorset | Westbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A38 Devon | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A46 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks, 1 lane closed
      M42 West Midlands | Northbound | Roadworks
      M6 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks
      M5 West Midlands | Northbound | Roadworks
      M5 West Midlands | Southbound | Roadworks
      M6 West Midlands | Northbound | Roadworks
      M40 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A46 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks
      A46 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks
      M42 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M6 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A49 Herefordshire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A49 Herefordshire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M5 Worcestershire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M5 Worcestershire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M42 West Midlands | Southbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M40 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M6 West Midlands | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M6 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      A46 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks
      A46 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A46 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M42 West Midlands | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M42 West Midlands | Southbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M6 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M45 Northamptonshire | Eastbound | Resurfacing, road closed
      M45 Northamptonshire | Westbound | Resurfacing, road closed
      M42 West Midlands | Northbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M6 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks
      M6 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks
      M6 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A46 Warwickshire | Southbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A46 Warwickshire | Northbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A14 Northamptonshire | Westbound | Roadworks
      M1 Northamptonshire | Southbound | Roadworks
      M1 Northamptonshire | Southbound | Roadworks, 2 lanes closed
      M1 Northamptonshire | Northbound | Roadworks
      M1 Northamptonshire | Southbound | Roadworks
      A14 Northamptonshire | Eastbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A14 Northamptonshire | Westbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A14 Northamptonshire | Westbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A14 Northamptonshire | Westbound | Roadworks, road closed
      A14 Northamptonshire | Westbound | Roadworks, road closed
      M45 Northamptonshire | Westbound | Resurfacing, road closed
      M45 Northamptonshire | Eastbound | Resurfacing, road closed
      A14 Northamptonshire | Eastbound | Roadworks, road closed