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Title: Morning Revision (13/03/2008) Post by: Lee on March 13, 2008, 08:04:09 From the FGW website :
06:16 Abergavenny to London Paddington due 09:47 This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Hereford, Ledbury, Colwall, Great Malvern, Malvern Link, Worcester Foregate Street, Worcester Shrub Hill, Pershore, Evesham, Honeybourne, Moreton-In-Marsh, Kingham, Charlbury and Oxford.This is due to a train fault. Title: Re: Morning Revision (13/03/2008) Post by: devon_metro on March 13, 2008, 16:43:55 Left Abergavenny 74 late, passed Didcot 19 late.
Not bad ;) Must have been busy me thinks ::) Title: Re: Morning Revision (13/03/2008) Post by: John R on March 13, 2008, 23:52:33 That's pretty silly. If it was late leaving SPM it should have run up to Worcester direct and taken up its path there. What use is a service non-stop from Abergavenny to Reading?
Title: Re: Morning Revision (13/03/2008) Post by: swlines on March 14, 2008, 00:43:36 Didn't someone suggest a Hereford to London via Bristol service... methinks FGW were timing it!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: Morning Revision (13/03/2008) Post by: redskin125 on March 14, 2008, 16:38:16 HST developed a fault (dragging brake) between Maindee and Abergavenny on the empty working, by the time the traincrew had rectified the fault the train would have been very late onto the Cotswold line. So Network Rail barred it from running beyond Hereford towards Worcester, so it ran via Severn Tunnel. Hence 1st stop Reading after Hereford. The sooner the single line sections between Oxford and Hereford get replaced with double track the better.
Title: Re: Morning Revision (13/03/2008) Post by: Btline on March 14, 2008, 18:39:26 HST developed a fault (dragging brake) between Maindee and Abergavenny on the empty working, by the time the traincrew had rectified the fault the train would have been very late onto the Cotswold line. So Network Rail barred it from running beyond Hereford towards Worcester, so it ran via Severn Tunnel. Hence 1st stop Reading after Hereford. The sooner the single line sections between Oxford and Hereford get replaced with double track the better. Definitely. If you have not done so, please sign the petition (in my signature). Title: Re: Morning Revision (13/03/2008) Post by: John R on March 14, 2008, 19:24:25 Oh well, at least we've got the explanation. Thanks Redskin.
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