OK, what I hadn't spotted on that was the use of a 5-car set on 1W05 1953 London Paddington to Hereford. Deduct two points.

Which meant that this morning's 1P02 0523 Hereford to London Paddington was a 5-car.

And the same set will work
    1W02 1152 London Paddington to Hereford
    1P05 1518 Hereford to London Paddington (very busy from Oxford)
    1W36 1857 London Paddington to Great Malvern (very busy)

Thursday April 24

... was a very good day. Here's the screenshot of the trains at Evesham, with no red whatsoever.

Final score from yesterday:

1P04 13:18 Hereford to London Paddington (16:24) : held Hayes & Harlington (+30), arrived +55. Stock forms 1W33.
1P34 15:18 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington (17:29) : held Reading (+55), arrived +54.
1P05 15:18 Hereford to Paddington (18:29) : held Oxford (+40), arrived Reading +41 and cancelled thereafter. Stock ran empty to Paddington.

1P44 19:45 Great Malvern to London Paddington (22:24) : started from Shrub Hill.
1P46 20:56 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington (23:34) : cancelled throughout.

2E14 17:04 Didcot Parkway to Evesham (18:23) : held Oxford (+26), arrived +28.
1W33 16:58 London Paddington to Great Malvern (19:25) : departed +34 (stock from 1P04) , arrived Shrub Hill +34 and cancelled thereafter.
1W03 17:34 London Paddington to Hereford (20:25) : started from Reading (stock ran empty from Paddington) +41, arrived +30.
1W34 17:57 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street (20:11) : cancelled throughout.

In the afternoon, problems with the halts train:

So the halts train will run, but won't call at the halts and will be non-stop from Oxford to Moreton.

17:50

In consequence,
1P04 13:18 Hereford to London Paddington (16:24) was held at Hayes & Harlington and arrived +55.
The stock from this forms 1W33 16:58 London Paddington to Great Malvern. This departed Paddington +34.
And JourneyCheck has removed the message about stopping at the halts.

Meanwhile, 2E14 17:04 Didcot Parkway to Evesham (18:23) was held outside Oxford, but has now departed +26.
And JourneyCheck has removed the 'not stopping' message.

1P34 15:18 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington was held at Reading (+55), arrived +54.
1P05 15:18 Hereford to London Paddington was held at Oxford (+40), arrived Reading +41 and was cancelled thereafter. Stock is running empty to Paddington.

Stock has run empty from Paddington to Reading.

Final score from yesterday:

1P04 13:18 Hereford to Paddington (16:30) : cancelled after Didcot Parkway.
1P34 15:18 Worcester Foregate Street to Paddington (17:26) : held Charlbury. Arrived Oxford +16 and cancelled thereafter.
1P05 15:18 Hereford to Paddington (18:29) : held Charlbury (+24), arrived Oxford +33 and cancelled thereafter. Stock used for 1W03 below.
1P38 16:32 Great Malvern to London Paddington : held Charlbury (+40), Oxford (+69) and Didcot (+99), arrived +112.
1P40 18:02 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington : held Charlbury (+48), arrived +70.
2E16 18:51 Evesham to Oxford : cancelled throughout.
1P42 19:04 Great Malvern to London Paddington (21:30) : cancelled throughout.
1P44 19:45 Great Malvern to London Paddington (22:26) : started from Worcester Shrub Hill (+22), held Reading (+29), arrived +38.
1P46 20:56 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington (23:30) : cancelled throughout.
1P06 22:00 Hereford to London Paddington (01:15) : started from Worcester Shrub Hill (+28), arrived +12.

1W31 15:45 London Paddington to Great Malvern (18:26) : held Slough (+61). Arrived Reading +136 and cancelled thereafter.
2E14 17:09 Didcot Parkway to Evesham (18:27) : cancelled after Oxford.
1W33 16:45 London Paddington to Great Malvern (19:25) : started from Didcot using 802 010. Arrived Worcester Shrub Hill +23 and cancelled thereafter.
1W03 17:55 Reading (short-notice change?) to Hereford (20:25) : started from Oxford using stock from 1P05. Arrived Worcester Shrub Hill +6 and cancelled thereafter.
1W34 17:45 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street (20:11) : cancelled throughout.
1W36 18:45 London Paddington to Great Malvern (21:18) : cancelled throughout.
1W05 19:45 London Paddington to Hereford (22:57) : departed +27, benefits from 14-minute stand at  Great Malvern, arrived +14.
1W41 20:45 London Paddington to Great Malvern (23:13) : cancelled throughout.
1W43 21:45 London Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill (00:01) : departed +25, arrived +30.
1W45 22:58 London Paddington to Worcestershire Parkway (01:26) : cancelled throughout. Stock ran empty to Shrub Hill.

Tuesday April 22

Some stock out of place:

Unreported on JourneyCheck, the halts train, 2E80 07:00 Worcester Shrub Hill to Didcot Parkway, is behind 1P18 07:13 Great Malvern to London Paddington, possibly to avoid overcrowding as a result of the cancellation of the 06:43. 2E80 departed +37 and was held at Norton (+45) and Charlbury (+60). Arrived Oxford +60 and was cancelled thereafter.

19:00:
(my highlighting in red)

Monday April 21


At 14:35 this train, a 5-car unit, was at Evesham.

16:30:

17:15:

Still in platform at Slough at 17:15.

Friday April 18

More points failures today:


Though it's most likely that the problem was at Oxford.
2E77 05:10 Oxford to Worcester Shrub Hill, the positioning journey for the 07:00, departed Oxford +60 and arrived Shrub Hill +79.
The 07:00 departed +39, running after 1P18 07:13 Great Malvern to London Paddington. It arrived Oxford +38 and was cancelled thereafter.

Wednesday April 16

Problems with level crossing barriers at Newlands (between Foregate St and Malvern Link).

1P28 11:57 Great Malvern to London Paddington (14:23) departed +20, arrived +18.

1W21 1053 London Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill (13:01) : held at Evesham for 1P28 (+17), arrived +21.

Thursday April 17

If you do it that way, then there's one night-time duty for Worcester, taking the 5G36 from Shrub Hill (21:58) to Stoke Gifford (23:40) and  coming back with 3G18 04:42 from Stoke Gifford to Shrub Hill (06:31)

At present, there's only one empty stock movement from Stoke Gifford to the North Cotswold line in the morning, 3G18 04:42 Stoke Gifford to Great Malvern, which forms 1P18 07:13 Great Malvern to London Paddington. The empty stock is at Shrub Hill at 06:31.

There's two return workings in the evening.

5G36 21:23 Great Malvern to Stoke Gifford (at Shrub Hill at 21:58) is the empty stock from 1W36 18:57 London Paddington to Great Malvern (21:18).
5G29 22:21 Worcester Shrub Hill to Stoke Gifford (23:45) is the empty stock from 1G29 19:36 London Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill via Stroud.

The two Great Malvern movements would have to be done with the driver doing the 'other' half of the working (back to Stoke Gifford in the morning and out from there in the evening) either 'on the cushions' or in a taxi.

If you're going to expand the establishment of drivers at Worcester, then it makes more sense for this stock to be parked overnight at Shrub Hill.

What would improve it would be if short workings had their starting or finishing stations shown in red.
Are you listening, RTT?

Monday April 14

A good day. Attached is the RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website) listing for GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) at Evesham.  Only three red departures, and the worst of those was +7. No short workings.

Though 1W05 19:53 London Paddington to Hereford was a 5-car unit - which means that Tuesday's 1P02 05:23 Hereford to London Paddington (08:23) is a 5-car.

Saturday April 12

A good day

Sunday April 13


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