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06:15 Abergavenny to London Paddington due 09:47
This train will be started from Worcester Shrub Hill.It will no longer call at: Abergavenny, Hereford, Ledbury, Colwall, Great Malvern, Malvern Link and Worcester Foregate Street.This is due to a broken down train.


08:37 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington due 10:59
This train will be started from Oxford.It will no longer call at: Worcester Foregate Street, Worcester Shrub Hill, Pershore, Evesham, Honeybourne, Moreton-In-Marsh, Kingham, Charlbury and Hanborough.This is due to an earlier broken down train.

Road transport is being provided from Charlbury.


Oh well, 3rd day running the train I was planning on using from Charlbury have been cancelled (0833 last two days, 0938 today). All three due to broken down trains according to the FGW website. At least there is the option of a 60min bus journey rather than the 20min train journey.

A freight train became divided near Tram Inn this morning, so the empty HST from Bristol for the Abergavenny had to run via Cheltenham to Worcester (no time to get it beyond there. The Cl.180 for the 0837 Worcester was stuck behind an HST at Iver that had a burst brake pipe (0710 Oxford to Paddington set), once on the move Network Rail barred it from running beyond Oxford.

Thanks for the explanations (and others from previous days). So who do FGW blame when allocating delay minutes, NR for refusing line access to the late running train or FGW for the broken down HST which delayed the train behind.

Any WHY are we still getting 180s anyway.

We will keep getting them until the extra HST arrives (and is "refreshed") from East Midlands Trains. ::)

Until then, at least 3 Adelantes will be about- so watch out! ;)

Delay's go to the root cause, so FGW took some for the HST faults & the freight company for the divided train.  As for the Cl.180's, at present both 180's are supposed to start the day as a 10 car formation on 2 round trips to Oxford from Paddington. At present we only have 2 180's available to us, if one of them is not going to make it for service (faults etc.) we are told not to run a single 180 on the 0710 Oxford to Paddington, but put it on the 0837 Worcester and use the HST on the 0710 Oxford.

Thanks once again for the clear explanation

Where does that 0837 Worcester come from? ECS from Old Oak in the mornings or off the 0542 London to Worcester?

The 0837 from WOS to PAD I belive is the return journey of one of the first trains down the line in the morning...so if it fails both the down train and the return get cancelled.

I may have this wrong....but from the evidence these trains nearly always get cancelled in pairs!

think you'll find you're right, i've got the 05.42 service to foregate street before and it was announced on arrival that this was also the 08.37 service to London Paddington.