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« on: February 12, 2015, 12:18:51 »
 

  13:03 Penzance to London Paddington due 18:21 This train will be terminated at Exeter St Davids.
This train will no longer call at Tiverton Parkway, Taunton, Reading and London Paddington.
Will be formed of 2 coaches instead of 8 from Penzance.
This is due to an earlier train fault.

......that'll be cosy!  Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2015, 12:27:00 »
The down HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) diagram 0706 PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains)-PNZ failed at Slough this morning and terminated at Reading.  I suppose that is all they had.
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« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2015, 12:42:31 »
Yes, this was started from Exeter at 09:33
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O73160/2015/02/12/advanced
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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2015, 12:43:31 »
Must be a shortage of HSTs▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) - in the past when the old 07:30 London Paddington to Penzance service was affected another set was usually found to take up the outward journey at either Bristol Temple Meads or Plymouth.

I note the morning HST from Frome terminated at Newbury this morning as well.
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« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2015, 15:55:26 »
Down train terminated at Reading due train fault.
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« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2015, 18:14:01 »
Hopefully anyone travelling decided to check the update on the FGW▸ (First Great Western) website at 13:07.

2x153s from PZ to Exeter.  A HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) was sent down to Exeter, departed 9L, just passed through Slough.
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