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Title: Late notice engineering works - 18th September 2016 Post by: grahame on September 14, 2016, 06:09:38 Quote Network Rail will be undertaking additional electrification works this Sunday, 18 September. The map below identifies routes where we will be using buses to replace rail services as a result. This is in addition to the changes already made to accommodate the Severn Tunnel improvement work, but replaces work planned between Reading, Newbury and Westbury. These extra works were made with less notice than usual and it does mean that some customers have purchased tickets for journeys that will now have changed. We are contacting everyone who used our online facilities to let them know the changes and have also added information to our website and we will be alerting local media. More details are on the Sunday 18 September pdf available on https://www.gwr.com/travel-updates/planned-engineering (http://www.wellho.net/pix/lew_20160918.jpg) Trains are also running Swindon to Westbury via Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge Title: Re: Late notice engineering works - 18th September 2016 Post by: Rhydgaled on September 15, 2016, 13:48:41 From the map, it would seem that the 'additional works' are between Reading and Didcot (which I thought had already been electrified as the IEP test track), and possibly between Swindon and Bristol Parkway and Cardiff and Newport (or was this one of the weekends the latter was planned anyway)?
Title: Re: Late notice engineering works - 18th September 2016 Post by: TaplowGreen on September 15, 2016, 15:38:52 Some very long bus journeys there, what's the position with compensation/refunds for this and the associated extended journey times, especially as this is at short notice, hardly seems fair to have paid (for example) a first class fare for the train only to have to sit on a bus for an extended period?
Title: Re: Late notice engineering works - 18th September 2016 Post by: patch38 on September 15, 2016, 15:47:07 Maybe they are hoping to take advantage of the unseasonably good weather (which will probably have ended by then)? The map makes it look more as if a big chunk of TVSC is out-of-service. I'm sure one of our inside contacts can tell us...
Title: Re: Late notice engineering works - 18th September 2016 Post by: LiskeardRich on September 15, 2016, 15:48:08 Some very long bus journeys there, what's the position with compensation/refunds for this and the associated extended journey times, especially as this is at short notice, hardly seems fair to have paid (for example) a first class fare for the train only to have to sit on a bus for an extended period? I wonder if you booked a service by rail a to b arriving at b at xxxx but it's the busses and arrives at xxxx + 60 mins that's late for delay charter? Title: Re: Late notice engineering works - 18th September 2016 Post by: ChrisB on September 15, 2016, 16:41:38 Depends when the revised timetables made it into the planners/published on website.
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