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11 Swanage, with the Purbeck Breezer to Poole behind

It is not just GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway), Buses of Somerset, also part of First Group,  have been having problems over the past few days
(From X)

Yeovil Pen Mill bracket signals are now upper quadrants

5 Balise transponder for temporary speed restrictions

13, all in UK^▸ (United Kingdom) and all by train, including Balloch Pier before it closed

Update from GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) at 19.35

RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website) showing service Bristol to Weymouth via Westbury, starting with a VST lusted departure at 09.29. It was activated at 03.55

Then there is the 17.53 and 20.11 from Weymouth and the 17.48 and 2049 from Bristol, all WTT^▸ (Working Time-Table) services

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:36498/2024-12-08/detailed

6 A fictitious livery photoshopped onto the Cl 55
https://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/6226390473
Original inage at Shildon 2011

From Network Rail via X

From Philip Haigh on X

I am curious about the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) explanation for the cancellations on the early Weymouth service as being the result of communication problems.

The ecs from Bristol for the Yeovil to Filton Abbey Wood service was cancelled between Bristol and Westbury, problem at the depot. It started late from Westbury running to Castle Cary to form the service to Filton.

The first Westbury to Weymouth and return was cancelled - was this because the unit was taken for the Filton service?

Then the first up from Weymouth was cancelled. Was this because the crew are booked come down on the early ecs and get a taxi to Weymouth?

The cancelled services from Weymouth (0733 and 0930) have been reinstated from Bristol and Westbury respectively.

Was the initial problem the communications one and led to the other cascade?

6 Filey Holiday Camp railway station for Butlins 1947-1977

Came across this on social media this morning.

Just over 13 kilometres of the line in total, about 6.5 kilometres either side of Kiltimagh Station is being used by Velorail. Using cycles adapted for rail.
More details at their website

https://velorail.ie/

https://www.ird-kiltimagh.ie/tourism/velorail/

The attached link leads you to the report of their AGM^▸ (Annual General Meeting) in November. There are two documents worth reading.

https://sites.google.com/view/serug/publications

One is the presentation given by Nick Hurrell, their Secretary, at the 2024 AGM.  It outlines recent performance on the line and how it might be improved. It shows where infrastructure upgrades might be effected. It also shows the considerable growth in passenger numbers compared to pre-Covid times.

Second is the presentation given by Neil Drury at the 2024 AGM.  It describes the plan to replace the class 159 units with a fleet of hybrid third rail and battery units.

This has also been covered by the Green Signals podcast on YouTube
https://youtu.be/J--7a2wy0wM?si=tNsI9BVaazXeTCis

Seven days on an the service affected by crew shortages again.

Journey check showing:

06:38 Weymouth to Gloucester due 10:02 has been delayed at Weymouth and is now 19 minutes late. This is due to train crew being delayed.

07:33 Weymouth to Gloucester due 10:56 will be started from Westbury.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

13:10 Gloucester to Weymouth due 16:27 will be terminated at Bristol Temple Meads.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

15:10 Gloucester to Weymouth due 18:27 will be terminated at Bristol Temple Meads.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.