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From the FGW website :

18:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 21:45
This train will be started from Fareham.It will no longer call at: Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth & Southsea, Fratton and Cosham.This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable.

20:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 23:55
This train will be terminated at Westbury.It will no longer call at: Trowbridge, Bradford-On-Avon, Bath Spa, Bristol Temple Meads, Filton Abbey Wood, Patchway, Severn Tunnel Jn, Newport South Wales and Cardiff Central.This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable.

20:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour due 23:52
This train will be terminated at Bristol Temple Meads.It will no longer call at: Bath Spa, Bradford-On-Avon, Trowbridge, Westbury, Dilton Marsh, Warminster, Salisbury, Romsey, Southampton Central, Fareham, Fratton, Portsmouth & Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour.This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable.

Thanks, Lee!

Isn't this actually three different members of train crew not being available?

Train 1 - Starting from Fareham, arriving in Cardiff at 21:45 - so that crew clearly not available for train 3;

Train 2 - 20:22 from Portsmouth to Westbury - and terminating there;

Train 3 - 20:30 from Cardiff to BTM - and terminating there.

 ???

Sorry, wrong........
Train 3 is worked by crew who work the 16.22 Pompey-Cardiff.....

Thanks, Jim!  ;)

Still makes it two members of crew short, though?

A lot morethan that all in all today Chris...

Rather strange yesterday that I saw the 17:09 Warminster- Portsmouth was a 2 coach 158 (and late) whereas our 17:28 Warminster- Great Malvern was a 3 coach 158! Not that I was complaining as the entire journey was extremely comfortable, but I did feel a bit sorry for the folks squashed in the other train.

That [the old 798 diagram] was 2 car ALL DAY.

Many thanks for your kind thoughts for those of us who were on the service Graz, audible groans at Filton as it appeared round the bend. It was a reminder of how far FGW have come in recent months that this is now a fairly rare occurrence, and there were a couple of infrequent travellers boarding at BTM whose languge was entertaining to say the least.

Not entirely sure where the hold up was, it^s normally a late running Westbury stopper as at least once a week we sit and watch the sheep just outside Freshford waiting for the section to clear. Friday was probably due to numbers of passengers trying to move cases twice as heavy than themselves over bikes through a train full and hardly breathing.