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Title: Trowbridge/Bradford-on-Avon Stops Skipped (24/02/2008) Post by: Lee on February 24, 2008, 22:19:59 From the FGW website :
19:08 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 22:46 This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Trowbridge and Bradford-On-Avon. Perhaps they have been reading the forum today..... Title: Re: Trowbridge/Bradford-on-Avon Stops Skipped (24/02/2008) Post by: swlines on February 24, 2008, 22:27:30 The train departed Portsmouth Harbour 33 minutes late.
Lost 18 minutes between Fareham and Southampton Central so ran 48 minutes from there. Waited at Westbury for 8 minutes for some odd reason, so 53 minutes late from there. 47 minutes at Bath Spa so gained 6 minutes... Title: Re: Trowbridge/Bradford-on-Avon Stops Skipped (24/02/2008) Post by: spike on February 24, 2008, 23:12:53 I was going to get that back home to Bath today.
Thank god I didn't! Edit: As a slight point, National Rail dropped a clanger with the journey planner for this service today - it was being diverted via Eastleigh due to engineering works around St Denys. In my dozy state this morning I tapped in Christchurch -> Bath Spa and it told me to change at Eastleigh. Fine I thought, it must be diverting via Chandler's Ford as has been done before. But oh no, after Eastleigh it went via Airport Parkway to Soton Central where it carried on the normal route. So I went to Eastleigh and back rather pointlessly..... :( And, why oh why oh why on a Sunday does the slow SWT Poole train arrive at Soton 1 minute before the FGW Cardiff train departs thus you having to wait an hour to connect, that is 10mins on Mon-Sat! Title: Re: Trowbridge/Bradford-on-Avon Stops Skipped (24/02/2008) Post by: swlines on February 24, 2008, 23:26:20 Because it happens to have a few more minutes between London and Woking, calls additionally at Woking, Micheldever, Shawford (every other hour), Eastleigh for 3 minutes to detach trains... ;)
Title: Re: Trowbridge/Bradford-on-Avon Stops Skipped (24/02/2008) Post by: Lee on February 26, 2008, 23:45:11 And another one today (26/02/2008) :
20:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 23:55 This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Trowbridge and Bradford-On-Avon.This is due to a delay on a previous journey. Title: Re: Trowbridge/Bradford-on-Avon Stops Skipped (24/02/2008) Post by: swlines on February 27, 2008, 01:04:56 Caught up 6 minutes or so on that one.
Was 40 mins late at Westbury, 33 at Bath Spa, 20 at Cardiff! Title: Re: Trowbridge/Bradford-on-Avon Stops Skipped (24/02/2008) Post by: Jim on February 27, 2008, 07:22:00 And another one today (26/02/2008) : 20:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 23:55 This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Trowbridge and Bradford-On-Avon.This is due to a delay on a previous journey. I hate the service behind, 21.20 Soton-Bristol, sits Westbury for 13mins! Title: Re: Trowbridge/Bradford-on-Avon Stops Skipped (24/02/2008) Post by: tramway on February 27, 2008, 13:46:19 And another one today (26/02/2008) : 20:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 23:55 This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Trowbridge and Bradford-On-Avon.This is due to a delay on a previous journey. I hate the service behind, 21.20 Soton-Bristol, sits Westbury for 13mins! Think I've had to catch that one in the past due to 'missing' Trowbridge. :-[ :-[ The longest 13 mins in the world. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |