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With the line between Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare being closed for these 9 days, Cross Country will once again be diverting their Bristol to the south-west services, presumably onto the line through Bath Spa and Westbury to Taunton.

IIRC on previous occasions, it hasn't always been clear if these services will stop at either of those two intermediate stations, though I think they usually haven't. Does anyone here know? I will probably be travelling from Bath to the south-west during that week and it would obviously be easier to use a direct service from here rather than having to change en route or going via Temple Meads and then bus replacement.

If you look at Realtime Trains it will show there are no planned passenger calls, although it could change later I suspect that’s unlikely. 
Westbury (WSB) all day on 22 Jan  for XC trains

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:WSB/2024-01-22/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt&toc=XC

Bath (BTH) all day on 22 Jan

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:BTH/2024-01-22/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt&toc=XC

I wouldn’t expect calls on this type of diversion unless the diverted service reduced the normal service through the area?

Paul

Please note, the forum is adding extra preamble so my links as copied don’t work…

Edit - grahame - to make the links work  :D

Westbury link not working for me (Chrome)

Indeed - and really odd.  The XC on the end seems to be being changed to lower case somewhere. Forum software issue . Try the following as a work-around to get you there.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:WSB/2024-01-22/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt&toc=XC

Ideal. Thank you, work-around link working.

Slightly unusual sight at Westbury.  The paintwork on the train is in somewhat better condition than that on the overbridge, I have to wonder how long it will be before there is a weight limit for stuff going under that bridge as well !

(https://i.postimg.cc/hP6VmF1T/JWN05291-ARW-Dx-O-Deep-PRIME.png) (https://postimg.cc/hf8JF5wt)

and at Castle Cary (https://flickr.com/photos/pwakely/53497591946) or as a Spanish (I presume) lady on my train to Cary called it, 'Kastelle Carig'

Kept meaning to post this last week and never got round to it.

A Cross Country HST diverted via Freshford in 2014.   There were two in the cab so not sure if they used a pilot with route knowledge on that occasion.

(https://mbob.co.uk/rforum/xcmar14.jpg)