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

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[grahame]

12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 13:01

12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 13:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

The change only happened last weekend!

So as of last night it was 50% of the days since the change that the peak evening train was declared cancelled then re-instated.  Unclever - very unclever.

Time flies - it's been two weeks not one, hasn't it, ChrisB?   And I fell for that without doing a fact check ... I have not looked back at the first week after the changes; that record commented on is for the second week as they should be bedding in.

[grahame]

... . I guess it works on paper. ...

I guess it does.  Problem is ... railways don't run on paper ... they run on people, and engineering, and trains and rails, all of which have less continuous availability than a sheet of paper which remains a miracle that can be written on and still read years later.

[grahame]

12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 13:01

12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 13:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

And six hours later ... the almost inevitable cancellation of the train in the return direction

13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55

13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Last Updated:31/05/2025 09:39

[grahame]

14:05 Frome to Swindon due 14:58
15:44 Swindon to Frome due 16:38 
16:43 Frome to Swindon due 17:34 
17:44 Swindon to Salisbury due 18:55

17:44 Swindon to Salisbury due 18:55 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault on this train.
Last Updated:01/06/2025 11:57

[grahame]

15:44 Swindon to Frome due 16:38

15:44 Swindon to Frome due 16:38 will be reinstated.
It will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a fault on this train.

1 cheer not 3. Not "reinstated" as far as passengers wishing to join at Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham or Trowbridge are concerned ...

Somewhat better news (2 cheers not 3) that the following return trip is no longer on the cancellation report, so id probably re-instated throughout.

[grahame]

06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47

06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault on this train.

[grahame]

06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47

06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault on this train.

Just noticed ...

06:50 Westbury to Weymouth due 08:25

06:50 Westbury to Weymouth due 08:25 will be reinstated.
It will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to a fault on this train.

So is that 2 trains with faults at Westbury this morning, or a fault on the train planned to run to Weymouth and then a decision to use the one planned for the TransWilts service for the Weymouth instead?