Night Riviera - merged posts, ongoing discussion

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[RobT]

Stock move for tonight's down sleeper?
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O05736/2019/05/14/advanced

[bobm]

.... and here is the empty stock on the Frome avoiding line.



57604 Pendennis Castle leading with 57603 Tintagel Castle bringing up the rear.

[grahame]

23:45 London Paddington to Penzance due 07:55
29/05/19 23:45 London Paddington to Penzance due 07:55 will be delayed at Westbury.
This is due to a fault on this train.

Slightly unusual to see a report of a delay at a station that's not on its scheduled passenger stop schedule.

[Pb_devon]

23:45 London Paddington to Penzance due 07:55
29/05/19 23:45 London Paddington to Penzance due 07:55 will be delayed at Westbury.
This is due to a fault on this train.

Slightly unusual to see a report of a delay at a station that's not on its scheduled passenger stop schedule.

They were obviously anticipating something worse than it turned out as the delay was about 10 minutes (RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website)) - back on time at Taunton departure.

[grahame]

21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03
18/06/19 21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03 has been delayed between Freshford and Chippenham and is now 13 minutes late.
This is due to congestion.

Actually routed Westbury - Swindon.  Held at Bradford Junction awaiting a freight from Acton to Merehead coming 'tother way down the single line.  Looks like timetabling glitch as the freight was only 3 late.

Two Tracks, Now!   

[TonyK]

Two Tracks, Now!   

Hey! Steady!

[PhilWakely]

21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03
21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03 will be delayed between Freshford and Chippenham.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

An interesting routeing for the Up sleeper 

[I guess it was actually routed via Melksham]

[TonyK]

21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03
21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03 will be delayed between Freshford and Chippenham.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

An interesting routeing for the Up sleeper 

[I guess it was actually routed via Melksham]

Indeed so, according to RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website), rumbling through 13L, just before 3am, unobserved by all bar the tooth fairy and an occasional passing drunk.

[bobm]

And the staff who make use of the unadvertised stop at Swindon.  With 10 minutes allowed for that it was all but on time going forward. 

[grahame]

[I guess it was actually routed via Melksham]

Indeed so, according to RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website), rumbling through 13L, just before 3am, unobserved by all bar the tooth fairy and an occasional passing drunk.

The Tooth Fairy did wave to the driver, but how dare you suggest there was even the occasional passing drunk at that time on a WEDNESDAY morning.  Anyone with those tendencies knows very well there's a lock-in at [place name deleted] on a Tuesday night.  I would have agreed with you were it a weekend night!

[grahame]

And again ...

21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03
21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03 will be delayed between Freshford and Chippenham.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

... timetable clash on the line section that needs to be "two tracks, now!"??  Sleeper should easily make up the delay again if that guess is right.  On a scale of 1 to 10 of how much of a concern to passengers on the train, probably a 0.

[grahame]

And again ...

21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03
21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:03 will be delayed between Freshford and Chippenham.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

... timetable clash on the line section that needs to be "two tracks, now!"??  Sleeper should easily make up the delay again if that guess is right.  On a scale of 1 to 10 of how much of a concern to passengers on the train, probably a 0.

Went through Melksham 5 early ... sat at Swindon for 15 minutes.   The stone empties scheduled in the opposite direction on the single line at the same time (!) went through Melksham nearly 30 minutes early, so were back on to respectable double track at Bradford Junction some 12 minutes before the sleeper passed into the bottleneck.

[martyjon]

Oh dear, at 06:00 a clean JourneyCheck sheet spoiled by last nights service ;-

23:50 London Paddington to Penzance due 08:55 will be starting late from London Paddington and is expected to be 1 minute late.
This is due to congestion.

[TaplowGreen]

Oh dear, at 06:00 a clean JourneyCheck sheet spoiled by last nights service ;-

23:50 London Paddington to Penzance due 08:55 will be starting late from London Paddington and is expected to be 1 minute late.
This is due to congestion.

Perhaps it's intended to be ironic - "congestion" after all the space created by yesterday's cancellations!

[martyjon]

Oh dear, at 06:00 a clean JourneyCheck sheet spoiled by last nights service ;-

23:50 London Paddington to Penzance due 08:55 will be starting late from London Paddington and is expected to be 1 minute late.
This is due to congestion.

Perhaps it's intended to be ironic - "congestion" after all the space created by yesterday's cancellations!

More ironic, according to RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website), the service left RT.