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1	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025	on: March 11, 2025, 20:36:12
......and again..... Alterations to services between London Paddington and Reading Following a points failure at Twyford the line will be reopened shortly. Disruption is expected until 21:30 11/03. Train services between London Paddington and Reading may be delayed by up to 40 minutes or terminated at Reading. Customer Advice Problems caused by a points failure near Twyford have now been resolved, and trains can run normally again. However this has caused significant delays and will take a while for the train service to recover.

2	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing discussion	on: March 09, 2025, 11:09:57
Quote from: ChrisB on March 09, 2025, 09:57:07 Drivers prioritising the life over working overtime. You really can't blame them. Rugby @ 1500. .....and to be fair, being a train driver puts you in the income bracket necessary to be able to afford Twickenham tickets these days!

3	Journey by Journey / South Western services / Re: 25th May 2025 - SWR Franchise expires and services Nationalised	on: March 09, 2025, 09:02:54
Quote from: grahame on March 09, 2025, 07:46:37 Adding the date to our diary. Getting closer Will anyone notice the difference?

4	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025	on: March 09, 2025, 07:09:03
Quote from: a-driver on March 08, 2025, 17:50:25 TfL^» (Transport for London - about) have publicly stated how un8mpressed they are with Network Rail previously. Their public statement of unhappiness clearly achieved a lot! It achieved a fair bit in securing additional resource, acknowledgement of shortcomings and undertakings that there would be improvements, but unfortunately this has yet to be delivered. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/27/140m-rail-plan-to-tackle-elizabeth-line-and-great-western-problems

5	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025	on: March 07, 2025, 14:37:31
Reading elsewhere that TfL^» (Transport for London - about) are seriously unimpressed with the constant failures between Paddington and Reading (points, signal, track etc) which are affecting the Elizabeth Line and are taking a robust line with NR^» (Network Rail - home page) at a senior level, asking for details to be set out as to what is being done to address it. A refreshing contrast with the apparently rather more quiescent GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) it would seem. Whether it'll have any effect of course remains to be seen!

6	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025	on: March 05, 2025, 05:15:21
Breathtakingly hopeless............... Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading Due to a fault with the signalling system between Slough and Twyford all lines are blocked. Disruption is expected until 09:00 05/03. Train services between London Paddington and Reading will be cancelled. Customer Advice Due to a fault on the signalling system between Slough and Twyford, the trains that run from London Paddington to Reading in both directions are unable to leave the depot. This means we have had to suspend the train service.

7	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025	on: March 05, 2025, 04:46:09
Cancellations to services between Slough and Twyford Due to a fault with the signalling system between Slough and Twyford all lines are blocked. Train services running through these stations may be cancelled or delayed. Disruption is expected until 05:00 05/03. Customer Advice Due to a complete loss of signalling between Slough and Twyford no trains can run. We're sorry for the delay to your journey. We will update this message with more information when we have it.

8	Sideshoots - associated subjects / Heritage railways, Railtours, buses, canals, steamships and other public transport based attractions / Re: Avon Valley Railway - heritage line, Bristol towards Bath - merged posts	on: March 04, 2025, 16:08:58
Hopefully they won't get caught out in a similar manner again........once Bitton twice shy?

9	Sideshoots - associated subjects / The West - but NOT trains in the West / Re: Paddington bear stolen,now recovered	on: March 04, 2025, 05:21:13
Quote from: JayMac on March 03, 2025, 20:42:54 Paddington being in a town centre with, no doubt, plenty of CCTV^▸ (Closed Circuit Tele Vision) and probably some eyewitnesses, even at the late hour of the damage and theft, I imagine it was a relatively easy solve for Thames Valley Police. Very different to rusting of livestock in the rural countryside. Do sheep rust? That's a new one on me, learn something every day!

10	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing discussion	on: March 02, 2025, 20:59:36
Quote from: UstiImmigrunt on March 02, 2025, 20:46:06 Quote from: TaplowGreen on March 02, 2025, 20:34:01 1803,1903 & 2003 Paddington-Plymouth all cancelled due to crew shortage. I guess that just leaves the Sleeper? 2103 Exeter is shown as running. Also the above trains not showing on RealTime trains so cancelled well in advance? Oh, that's alright then. Just a shame it gets to Exeter half an hour after the last service to Plymouth leaves

11	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing discussion	on: March 02, 2025, 20:34:01
1803,1903 & 2003 Paddington-Plymouth all cancelled due to crew shortage. I guess that just leaves the Sleeper?

12	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing discussion	on: March 02, 2025, 12:28:03
After a decent couple of months looking at the map today there's a fair number of full/part cancellations due to lack of train crew, longer distance services later in the day especially. Hopefully we're not seeing GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) slipping back into their woeful Sunday performance. Surely not everyone had tickets for Man City v Plymouth?

13	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025	on: March 02, 2025, 07:41:02
From National Rail - Journeycheck still asleep. Route(s) affected between Ealing Broadway and Slough Description Overrunning engineering works between Ealing Broadway and Hayes & Harlington means that some lines between between these stations are blocked. As a result, trains running through these stations will be cancelled or delayed by up to 10 minutes. Trains are currently unable to run between Ealing Broadway and London Paddington. Disruption is expected until 08:15.

14	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: 175s to GWR	on: March 01, 2025, 09:43:33
Quote from: IndustryInsider on March 01, 2025, 09:31:14 ‘More’ as in more from the existing fleet. An important distinction. Robbing from Peter to pay Paul.

15	All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: 175s to GWR	on: March 01, 2025, 09:23:47
Quote from: IndustryInsider on March 01, 2025, 09:12:33 Quote from: ChrisB on February 28, 2025, 19:36:16 Quote from: IndustryInsider on February 27, 2025, 11:45:35 I'm getting increasingly doubtful that the units will be in service before the end of the summer. At a Local forum this afternoon, GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) were insistent that the Castles will be withdrawn on the current expected date, so it looks as though the 175s will start... Which is May? Or will more IET^▸ (Intercity Express Train)’s or other stock simply be drafted in for the interim? "More" IETs? Or just stripping them out elsewhere meaning more short forms and overcrowding?

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