Reliability of an hourly TransWilts service

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[grahame]

How was the single line from Thingley Junction to Bradford Junction going to cope with hourly passenger trains each way, together with the usual mix of freight stuff?   I have to admit we wondered - but it's coping well.   I've used RecentTimeTrains to look at all services that have run (so far) this month, looking at whether they've been on time.    For the record (as this is useful evidence for the future ...

[grahame]

There are some very interesting learning points for the TransWilts at present

19:22 Swindon to Portsmouth Harbour due 21:59
This train will be delayed between Chippenham and Trowbridge and is expected to be 1 minute late.
This train will be diverted between Chippenham and Trowbridge.
This train will call additionally at Melksham.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system earlier today.

and

18:20 Swindon to Portsmouth Harbour due 20:54
This train will be started from Chippenham.
This train will no longer call at Swindon.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system earlier today.

[grahame]

And

Services on the Cardiff Central ^ Portsmouth route will only operate every two hours in each direction between Swindon and Salisbury.

Now there's an interesting service - Swindon to Salisbury every 2 hours.

[grahame]

With the hourly service each way now concluded, I've pulled up the data for the last 4 weeks (Monday to Fridays) from Recenttime trains and stored it in a .pdf at http://atrebatia.info/hourlyreview.pdf.

Basically - it worked well.