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Title: Reasons for delays and cancellations Post by: grahame on October 22, 2022, 09:53:56 From Mark Hopwood at yesterday's TravelWatch SouthWest:
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/pcha_2.jpg) Purple - GWR (our TOC) issues Blue - Network Rail issues Green - TOC on TOC (SWR, Cross Country, TfW, freight, and perhaps others holding up or blocking GWR trains) I can't help wondering whether the diagram should show all failures to provide what's in the published May to December timetable - as I understand it, the cutoff is a few days ahead so that trains cancelled due to industrial action by GWR and Network Rail employees do not show, and the picture above is a false (massaged) statistic. I think I am happy that trains replaced by alternative services of buses during engineering works planned months in advance don't show up in this chart. Title: Re: Reasons for delays and cancellations Post by: ChrisB on October 22, 2022, 10:00:34 So you’d need another colour? Staff on TOC….
Title: Re: Reasons for delays and cancellations Post by: grahame on October 22, 2022, 10:34:42 So you’d need another colour? Staff on TOC…. Perhaps - or include staffing unavailability in Network Rail or TOC (problem when both lots are taking indusrial action There are plenty more colours available ... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Colours/Alphabetical_listing Quote pansy paprika Paris green patina peach peacock blue pea green pear pearl grey pearly periwinkle perse petrol blue petunia pewter piceous pillar-box red pineapple pine green pink pistachio green platinum platinum blond plum pomegranate Pompeian red poppy powder blue primrose Prussian blue puce puke purple purpure 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 |