2025 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury

grahame

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Re: 2025 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury

« Reply #240 on: May 18, 2025, 07:12:33 »

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18:10 Castle Cary to Swindon due 19:34

18:10 Castle Cary to Swindon due 19:34 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Castle Cary, Bruton and Frome.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

With crew shortages all over the place, so far the Westbury to Swindon service is doing far better than most today, having said which even a single cancellation on that line leaves a huge gap. I have to personally wonder at why, after so many years, crew shortages seem to be almost routine and look to the management and direction (from inside and outside the TOC^▸ ) for having failed to avoid such issues being so frequent, or to cynically have passed them off as an acceptable lack-of-service level.


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Re: 2025 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury

« Reply #241 on: May 18, 2025, 09:44:33 »

Quote from: grahame on May 18, 2025, 07:12:33

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Succinctly, because those at the upper reaches of GWR^▸ tend to be Managers rather than Leaders, and there are few better examples than this long running issue.


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Re: 2025 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury

« Reply #242 on: May 20, 2025, 06:41:54 »

06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47
06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Salisbury and Warminster.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system.
Will be formed of 3 coaches instead of 2.


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