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Title: Unusual 1206 London-Penzance Today (23/09/2008) Post by: Lee on September 23, 2008, 14:53:45 From the FGW website :
12:06 London Paddington to Penzance due 17:08 This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Liskeard, Bodmin Parkway and Par.This train will run short formed with 2 carriages between Plymouth and Penzance.This is due to a train fault. Title: Re: Unusual 1206 London-Penzance Today (23/09/2008) Post by: vacman on September 24, 2008, 21:10:47 HST hit a bird and broke windscreen, a 150 was mustered from somewhere to continue to Penzance (40 late) and went fast to St Austell, the passengers for other stations were put on the 1555 Ply-Pnz which only departed 10 mins later, at Penzance the 150 was strengthened with the spare 153 and went up as the 1737 Pnz-Pad as far as Plymouth where an HST continued the journey.
Title: Re: Unusual 1206 London-Penzance Today (23/09/2008) Post by: Chris from Nailsea on September 24, 2008, 22:29:54 Wow! Thanks indeed for that summary, vacman!
I must say, that response by FGW to such an 'incident', in terms of maintaining services as far as possible for passengers, is much more efficient than in the old days! Congratulations, FGW! ;) Title: Re: Unusual 1206 London-Penzance Today (23/09/2008) Post by: Btline on September 25, 2008, 17:50:31 Hmmmmm I wonder what Graham would say to "spare 153...."
Title: Re: Unusual 1206 London-Penzance Today (23/09/2008) Post by: vacman on September 29, 2008, 15:42:17 Hmmmmm I wonder what Graham would say to "spare 153...." The "spare" 152 is to cover the entire Plymouth and Cornwall area and is used most days!Title: Re: Unusual 1206 London-Penzance Today (23/09/2008) Post by: kazbear on September 29, 2008, 22:45:58 Hmmmmm I wonder what Graham would say to "spare 153...." The "spare" 152 is to cover the entire Plymouth and Cornwall area and is used most days!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 |