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Title: Express service, Exeter to Bristol Post by: grahame on March 21, 2008, 09:50:04 Quote 06:00 Exeter St Davids to Bristol Temple Meads due 07:42 This train is running and is now 59 minutes late.This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Tiverton Parkway, Taunton, Bridgwater, Highbridge & Burnham, Weston-Super-Mare, Weston Milton, Worle, Yatton, Nailsea & Backwell, Parson Street and Bedminster.This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. That "59" seems very precise - any reason that it's just less than an hour? What proportion of the passengers that this service is INTENDED to serve will ACTUALLY be served? i.e. what proportion of the traffic normnally carried by this train is through journeys from Exeter St David's to Bristol Temple Meads? Title: Re: Express service, Exeter to Bristol Post by: John R on March 21, 2008, 09:52:28 Quote 06:00 Exeter St Davids to Bristol Temple Meads due 07:42 This train is running and is now 59 minutes late.This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Tiverton Parkway, Taunton, Bridgwater, Highbridge & Burnham, Weston-Super-Mare, Weston Milton, Worle, Yatton, Nailsea & Backwell, Parson Street and Bedminster.This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. That "59" seems very precise - any reason that it's just less than an hour? What proportion of the passengers that this service is INTENDED to serve will ACTUALLY be served? i.e. what proportion of the traffic normnally carried by this train is through journeys from Exeter St David's to Bristol Temple Meads? 0% I would suggest, as anyone wishing to travel from Exeter to BTM will use a Cross Country service rather than one stopping at 11 stations. Title: Re: Express service, Exeter to Bristol Post by: swlines on March 21, 2008, 10:06:26 This particular train arrived at Bristol at 0814, 32 minutes late.
Title: Re: Express service, Exeter to Bristol Post by: vacman on March 21, 2008, 12:28:56 I expect it only ran so that the unit was correctly placed for next working.
Title: Re: Express service, Exeter to Bristol Post by: swlines on March 21, 2008, 12:43:42 I do wonder what the next working was though - there were no delays on GW services starting from Temple Meads!
Title: Re: Express service, Exeter to Bristol Post by: qwerty on March 21, 2008, 17:49:04 I do wonder what the next working was though - there were no delays on GW services starting from Temple Meads! Dunno what the next working at BTM was, but I can tell you the allocated unit was 150127 so perhaps someone else can tell us. I believe the train crew that bring up the 06.00 from Exeter then do a BTM - Cardiff and return. 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 |