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Title: Sunday Timetable Post by: ReWind on December 02, 2008, 14:25:06 Nothing major, just a bit of bizarre timetabling!!
Was travelling on 21.55 Westbury to BTM (ex 20.09 Weymouth) last Sunday Evening. This service is all stops to BTM. Arrived at Westbury to find my train on time. Great! Then I noticed a 22.01 Semi-fast ex Portsmouth Harbour service. This service is for cardiff Central and only stopped at Trowbridge, BOA, Bath Spa, BTM then onto Cardiff! Why would you timetable a fast service to follow a slow, all stops, service to depart just 6 minutes later. In fact when leaving Westbury, I noticed the 22.01 service in Platform 2. Its a Sunday evening, there probably wasn't a service from Westbury to BTM since 7pm and now there are 2 services within 6 minutes of eachother, with the faster service following the slower service! Bizarre! And guess what, the 22.01 Cardiff Central service had left BTM for Cardiff before we arrived to BTM! How? Title: Re: Sunday Timetable Post by: tramway on December 02, 2008, 19:39:32 Hi BB
There are several timetable anomolies similar to that, and I'm sure there will be someone along to explain, eg driver swap etc. but I have to agree it can be annoying. 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 |