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Title: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: grahame on December 26, 2008, 08:22:20 From the FGW site ...
http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=3470 Quote Transport for London (TfL) are sponsoring 'free to use' all night First Great Western services on New Year's Eve between Paddington and Slough (outbound only). Trains will operate at half-hourly intervals from 01:00 to 05:00, calling at Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Hanwell, Southall, Hayes & Harlington and West Drayton. TfL is also paying for Heathrow Connect to provide a 2 trains per hour service (from 00:45 to 04:15), calling at Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Hanwell and Southall, giving a 4 trains per hour service to Hayes & Harlington. I'm guessing that these trains will be running on New Year's DAY - in the early hours - and not on New Year's Eve as stated? Title: Re: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: Electric train on December 26, 2008, 19:16:49 My guess is this part of the Oyster Card area coverage, West Drayton being the outer limit of FGW running on to Slough is I suspect more an operational convenience
Title: Re: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: IndustryInsider on December 27, 2008, 01:56:43 They've been running a similar service for many years. One year there was absolute chaos when no drivers were rostered for the additional trains, but hopefully that isn't the case this year!
Title: Re: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: paul7575 on December 27, 2008, 11:49:52 My guess is this part of the Oyster Card area coverage, West Drayton being the outer limit of FGW running on to Slough is I suspect more an operational convenience Nothing to do with Oyster AFAICS - TfL simply hire in a few trains, and have done it for a few years - this FGW service may be less well known though. SWT run some to places like Kingston overnight as well, and they aren't in the Oyster pre pay system yet. I think it dates to the GLA encouraging everyone to congregate in Trafalgar Square, so TfL was obliged to do something about the travel chaos afterwards... Paul Title: Re: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: Steve44 on December 27, 2008, 17:44:59 Pretty sure i read on national rail enquiries site that trains are also running as far as Reading... didn't say anything about it being free mind.
Title: Re: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: Ollie on December 27, 2008, 18:08:53 Some will go as far as Reading, but it won't be free, TfL are only paying as far as Slough.
Title: Re: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: Btline on December 28, 2008, 23:45:43 Yes, but why have FGW said the trains are operating on New Years Eve, not New Year's Day?
Title: Re: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: grahame on December 30, 2014, 06:30:53 Old thread ... does this still happen?
Title: Re: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: grahame on December 31, 2014, 05:31:18 Old thread ... does this still happen? Somewhat answering my own question - "don't think so". Quote If you're going to celebrate New Year's Eve 2014 in London, these are the most important things to remember: Between 11:45pm and 4:30am, the Tube, Overground, buses, trams, and the DLR will be free on New Year^s Eve in London. [snip] South Train Trains, Southern, Southeastern, C2C, and Chiltern railways will be laying on SOME extra National Rail services to and from London on NYE. Other operators may also be affected. from the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/free-tube-on-new-years-eve-everything-you-need-to-know-about-travel-in-london-on-nye-2014-9950381.html (I'm assuming that South Train Trains is a new TOC for 2015 from Waterloo ;D ) Title: Re: Free service, Paddington to Slough, for the New Year Post by: insider on December 31, 2014, 19:21:39 A special Service is in operation tonight from Paddington - Maidenhead & Reading
A valid ticket or Oyster Card (valid to West Drayton) will be required. Departures are 00:34 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, West Drayton, Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford & Reading (formed of 5 coaches) 01:04 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough & Maidenhead (formed of 5 coaches) 01:20 to Reading ONLY (formed of HST) 01:34 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, West Drayton, Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford & Reading (formed of 6 coaches) 01:50 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford & Reading (formed of 6 coaches) 01:55 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford & Reading (formed of 6 coaches) 02:04 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough, Maidenhead Twyford & Reading (formed of 5 or 6 coaches) 02:20 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough, Maidenhead Twyford & Reading (formed of 5 coaches) 02:38 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough & Maidenhead (formed of 6 coaches) 02:50 to Reading ONLY (formed of HST) 02:54 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough, Maidenhead Twyford & Reading (formed of 5 coaches) 03:04 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough, Maidenhead Twyford & Reading (formed of 5 coaches) 03:34 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, West Drayton, Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford & Reading (formed of 5 or 6 coaches) 04:12 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough, Maidenhead & Twyford (formed of 5 or 6 coaches) 05:29 to Ealing, Southall, Hayes, Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford & Reading (formed of 5 or 6 coaches) Lets hope Network Rail and FGW start the New Year without any glitches???? 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 |