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« on: January 17, 2011, 07:34:05 »
From FGW▸ (First Great Western) site..

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Train services between London Paddington and Slough are being disrupted due to signalling problems.Engineers are working as fast as possible to restore services to normal. Short notice alterations, cancellations and delays of up to 30 minutes can be expected.

My trains already been cancelled.. I'm just wondering quite how late I'm going to get to work today..
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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2011, 09:28:38 »
I got my usual 07:03 from Twyford which runs all the way to PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains) on the Up Relief so when it arrived at Maidenhead and I saw that the delayed 07:08 HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) was about to arrive on platform 2 I went over through the subway to catch that. At Dolphin Junction the HST crossed over to the Up Relief and crawled to just east of Iver where it stopped for about 10 minutes and the TM▸ (Train Manager, or Ticket Machine, or Temple Meads (Bristol), depending on context) announced that there was a lineside equipment failure. Eventually we reached just east of Hayes where an HST overtook us on the Up Main so I thought we'd get switched across but no, we continued to crawl along the Up Relief to PAD where arrival was at about 08:20, some 50 minutes late.

On arrival at PAD I noticed that all trains on the two pages of the Departure screen were shown as 'delayed' and arrivals were about 30-60 minutes late.  Sad
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2011, 16:12:29 »
Yup, another painful morning.  'Signalling problems' on the main lines, and a Track Circuit Failure on the Up Relief at Southall West Junction where the Up Goods Loop joins the Up Relief.  As those points were replaced at the weekend I'm sure therein lies the reason.

Not helped at all by the fact that yet again all of the CIS▸ (Customer Information System) screens between Reading and Paddington (bar Slough) had once again all failed and were busy displaying trains that had long since gone about 6am.  General confusion all round.  This is getting silly!
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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2011, 20:17:21 »
I got to work 45 minutes late  Angry
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2011, 23:08:41 »
My train into London this afternoon was 9 minutes early Tongue
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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2011, 23:23:26 »
Ha ha I can't beat that.. But how come? That's kind of unheard of isn't it.. that early?
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« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2011, 00:27:47 »
1818 caped at PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains) due to problems with emergency systems, and then ran ECS▸ (Empty Coaching Stock) back to Reading.
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« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2011, 00:34:44 »
Quote from: johoare on January 17, 2011, 23:23:26
Ha ha I can't beat that.. But how come? That's kind of unheard of isn't it.. that early?
Because the train is timetabled 40mins to do Reading - Paddington (no intermediate stops / turbo service from Bedwyn)
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