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« on: May 08, 2014, 20:51:39 »
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Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading
Owing to a person hit by a train between London Paddington and Reading all lines are blocked.

Understand the incident happened at/near West Ealing and sadly is a fatality.

As always, thoughts with the train crew/railway staff involved and those who knew the person involved.
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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2014, 21:21:25 »
Mod note: Topic title amended to add the date

Train involved was the 17:28 from Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington.

Relief Lines have now re-opened, but likely to be long delays as nothing has left Paddington for over an hour.

Trains are not calling at Ealing Broadway.
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« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2014, 21:51:20 »
I understand from Tweets that the incident may have been at Ealing Broadway rather than West Ealing as originally thought.
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« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2014, 23:18:01 »
Without wishing to detract from how bad it was for all the people involved.. which I hopefully won't do.. This did leave me stuck at Paddington.. Information wise it seemed to be ok in my opinion.. trains were a a bit slow when they did finally get going and maybe a few changes to where trains stopped to help people trying to get home might have helped out (I got to Paddington at ten to 8 and just got home not long ago (shortly after 11) and Maidenhead isn't even that long a distance but we did have to spend quite a while at Slough as a couple of trains that stopped there then Reading did just that...

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« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2014, 06:23:46 »
Quote from: johoare on May 08, 2014, 23:18:01
Without wishing to detract from how bad it was for all the people involved.. which I hopefully won't do.. This did leave me stuck at Paddington.. Information wise it seemed to be ok in my opinion.. trains were a a bit slow when they did finally get going and maybe a few changes to where trains stopped to help people trying to get home might have helped out (I got to Paddington at ten to 8 and just got home not long ago (shortly after 11) and Maidenhead isn't even that long a distance but we did have to spend quite a while at Slough as a couple of trains that stopped there then Reading did just that...



......In my days of commuting home via Paddington if this sort of thing happened I used to nip down to Waterloo and take the scenic route to Slough/Maidenhead via Windsor.
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« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2014, 10:34:09 »
What was really annoying was that the last train to Marlow left Maidenhead just 1 minute before the slightly delayed 2300 from Paddington arrived. The ATOC» (Association of Train Operating Companies see - here) help desk (when I found a help point that worked) was completely unable to grasp the situation and authorise a taxi for the stranded passengers.
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