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and on a sunday! from the fgw site:

I was just about to post the very same thing.

Something i've never seen before either, maybe an event somewhere is on...??

The only thing I can think of is that Bristol City F.C. are playing at lunchtime.

So maybe a few too many Supporters.

I would imagine they have layed on some extra stock for this service too if its that busy, and with it being sunday?

13:44 London Paddington to Oxford due 15:27 -     This train has been revised.It will call additionally at: Pangbourne.This is due to safety checks having been made earlier.

   

Safety checks???  Whats that all about?  And why would that cause an additionla stop?

That is correct, City are playing at home to Cardiff City in a lunchtime kick-off.

A very badly worded way of saying that an engineering possession on the relief lines has been handed back early, so trains can call there - Pangbourne doesn't have platforms on the fast lines, unlike the other stations between Reading and Didcot.

Might also be to do with the Bath Half Marathon...?

What, Pangbourne? Parson St definitely for the football. Even when we only had one train a day there use to be a scheduled stop of an up train around 2pm on Saturdays..... probably was a ghost stop when we weren't at home. Anyway good to see First were providing for those N Somerset fans who want a good three hours drinking before the early kick off.... come to think of it, they probably wanted them off the train before reaching Temple Meads!

No I was thinking that the additonal stop at Parson Street was to do with the Bath Half Marathon, Could it be a combination of both the marathon and the football...??

Although if there was a game on today, then I would have said it would be to do with the football as Parson Street Station is about a miles walk from the stadium!

I'm sure someone within the realms of FGW land will have the answer ;) :P ;D

As an aside i'm about to experience the delights of a train via Bath Spa, Trout hopes it won't be too busy ;)

No, because no-one in Bedminster has heard of the Bath Half Marathon, so there's no reason why Parson St would be the only station in the region to have an extra service for it. Where as there is a long history of Parson St being used by football fans. On Saturdays and weekday evenings there are scheduled services that cater for them, but this weekend's game was moved to Sunday for the Sky cameras.

An outbreak of plain English at FGW today

11:44 London Paddington to Oxford due 13:27
This train has been revised.It will call additionally at: Pangbourne.
This is due to the planned engineering works being completed ahead of schedule.
Last Updated: 22/03/2009 11:44

Wow makes a change to overunning.

Or being a cynic were they actually fully finished? Or are there further possessions planned?

Quite possible that the engineering works weren't undertaken at all!  ???

Undoubtedly I came across, on the ECML electrification (so BR days), a complete night's worth of possession and work abandoned because the driver of the ballast train didn't turn up. ::)