North Cotswold line delays and cancellations - 2026

[whole diary]

[Mark A]

This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.

Always thought that that reason is one that's not fit to air in public: railway management needs to think about what it's saying and how revealing it is. I've not travelled very much but it's given me a flashback to an afternoon in East Berlin long long ago, a couple of cool days and then a stinker of a cold rainstorm, at which about one in five little cars in sight broke down and gridlocked the leaden-sky-soaked roads.

Mark

[charles_uk]

And also - and for the same reason...

17:57 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street due 20:11 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.

20:56 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington due 23:34 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.

[John D]

15:52 London Paddington to Great Malvern due 18:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
Last Updated:01/06/2026 15:13

"More trains than usual blah blah" Why don't they just admit that they have, for some time now, proposed a timetable to the public for which they have neither sufficient rolling stock nor traincrew?

The "unusual" number of trains needing repair seems to have become quite a regular number of trains needing repair, with nothing "unusual" about it at all

I tend to think this excuse should be just a few days per year, but seems to have become multiple times per month on a regular basis.   

Which rather suggests they are over-scheduling their stock, if cannot repair stock fast enough for number of trains in timetable

[Witham Bobby]

07:13 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 09:43 will be cancelled.
This is due to a problem in the depot.
Last Updated:02/06/2026 04:27

Real Time Trains shows the empty stock for this working, 3G14 0428 from Stoke Gifford, did not run "at the operators request"

[charles_uk]

Outward run truncated due to this morning's signalling issues in the Slough area, and the return:

15:18 Hereford to London Paddington due 18:29 will be started from Great Malvern and terminated at Worcester Shrub Hill.

It will no longer call at Hereford, Ledbury, Colwall, Worcestershire Parkway Hl, Pershore, Evesham, Honeybourne, Moreton-In-Marsh, Kingham, Charlbury, Hanborough, Oxford, Didcot Parkway, Reading and London Paddington.

This is due to a fault on this train.

[charles_uk]

17:57 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street due 20:11 will be terminated at Oxford.
It will no longer call at Hanborough, Charlbury, Shipton, Kingham, Moreton-In-Marsh, Honeybourne, Evesham, Pershore, Worcestershire Parkway Hl, Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcester Foregate Street.
This is due to a broken down train.

18:57 London Paddington to Great Malvern due 21:18 will be terminated at Worcester Shrub Hill.
It will no longer call at Worcester Foregate Street, Malvern Link and Great Malvern but will call additionally at Shipton.
This is due to the train making extra stops because a train was cancelled.

20:56 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington due 23:41 will be reinstated.
It will be started from Worcester Shrub Hill.
It will no longer call at Worcester Foregate Street.
This is due to the train for this service having broken down.