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Title: Brighton Service Starts From Worcester (18/03/2008) Post by: Lee on March 18, 2008, 11:31:00 From the FGW website :
10:43 Great Malvern to Brighton due 16:14 This train will be started from Worcester Shrub Hill.It will no longer call at: Great Malvern, Malvern Link and Worcester Foregate Street.This is due to an earlier train fault. Title: Re: Brighton Service Starts From Worcester (18/03/2008) Post by: eightf48544 on March 18, 2008, 16:08:02 Great Malvern - Brighton that's a new one on me.
Who runs it, what's the route and what's the booked stock? Is it a stock working due to the fact the TOC hasn't really enough units to cover the timetable? Otherwise there are too many junctions and bottlenecks which ever route it takes so it presumably it runs late into Brighton? Unless of course there is lot of recovery time at say BTM if it goes that way. Title: Re: Brighton Service Starts From Worcester (18/03/2008) Post by: swlines on March 18, 2008, 16:21:32 It goes via Bristol Temple Meads and Westbury and I believe has been in the timetable for at least a year and a half.
It's an extended Westbury stopper essentially. Title: Re: Brighton Service Starts From Worcester (18/03/2008) Post by: Jim on March 18, 2008, 16:57:20 The 10.43 was started at Worcester today because the 05.4X Weymouth-Bristol Parkway failed at Bath today.
There is enough stock. It does go via Bristol, with at least 6mins recovery time in the area. swlines, it has run from Malvern since December, before hand it was the 12.00 Cardiff-Brighton. Title: Re: Brighton Service Starts From Worcester (18/03/2008) Post by: swlines on March 18, 2008, 17:58:26 swlines, it has run from Malvern since December, before hand it was the 12.00 Cardiff-Brighton. I blame FGW. ;) :DTitle: Re: Brighton Service Starts From Worcester (18/03/2008) Post by: Lee on March 18, 2008, 18:38:01 The creation of the Great Malvern-Brighton service (as Jim hints) came about as part of the December 2007 timetable re-shaping of "Cross-Bristol" services. You can find several related documents in the link below.
http://www.wellho.net/wccfoi/wccfgw3.pdf One of the most interesting aspects of the 1043 Great Malvern-Brighton service is that it is one of the very few services out of the Gloucester-Westbury pattern that dont call at Stapleton Road & Lawrence Hill. According to FGW, this is because the standard path into Bristol is flexed due to following a Westerleigh oil train. The WTT times for Parkway and Filton are in fact a few minutes later than in the PTT. The Temple Meads reversal is at the minimum already, due to the fixed path on the Coastway to Brighton, and so there is no time available to call at Stapleton Rd or Lawrence Hill. Title: Re: Brighton Service Starts From Worcester (18/03/2008) Post by: Jez on March 18, 2008, 21:43:46 It goes via Bristol Temple Meads and Westbury and I believe has been in the timetable for at least a year and a half. It's an extended Westbury stopper essentially. Yes. It used to go from Cardiff-Brighton via BTM, Westbury and Southampton. However since the Dec 07 TT change they have reverted back to the Cardiff-Taunton services. 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 |