Great Western Coffee Shop

A wee bit chaotic this morning at Trowbridge. (And elsewhere locally no doubt)

Station staff did well keeping people informed of the delays but AFAIK there wasn't a reason given. A quick check
on 'current running' revealed the following, don't recall seeing that one before.


Any number of underlying reasons I suppose. DUFF STOCK anyone.  ;) :D :D

I've seen that one a few times ... although more usually on HST services than 15x operated services.  But overall I think I'm seeing noticeably fewer short workings flagged up - it's certainly a lot better than it was in the immediate approach to Christmas and at the start of the new year; a good sign. 

Express frustration - yes, absolutely, but in the long term I suspect that shouting things like DUFF STOCK all over the place will be less than helpful in our relations with FGW, even though it may be a good approach with other companies.  And somehow I think you agree with me, Tramway, judging by your  ;D ;D ;D

Graham, if I posted about every frustration I have with FGW I think I would be banned from the board and lose my job for not doing what I^m supposed to, I leave that to survey time. I hope the topic came across as being positive.

Thinking about it ^uncommon^ was probably a better way of describing it, I just thought that the statement was a neat description that ^for whatever reason we couldn^t get your train to it^s start point^. There could be a plethora of causes for why it was actually late off. (Perhaps BNM could sneak in ^plethora^ next time he speaks to a PCO)

Trowbridge office guys are generally pretty good when things go awry, just wish there was better PA coverage, coverage from the weather^.

SPM is quite a restricted site and with the amount of stock entering and exiting the site you only need one problem and things get late very quickly