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26/10/2007.

06:04 Exeter St Davids to Great Malvern due 09:32
This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Tiverton Parkway, Taunton, Bridgwater and Highbridge & Burnham.This is due to a delay on a previous journey.


Any member of this forum throw light on the previous journey, at the time in the morning of this services departure from Exeter, I can only assume that the previous journey is the ECS journey from the depot adjacent to St. Davids station at Exeter into the departure platform at St. Davids. If this is the case, cant FGW even run that journey to time.

And what about the poor passengers waiting for this service at Tiverton Parkway, Taunton, Bridgwater, Highbridge & Burnham to see it zoom past their station without stopping this am, FGW up to their usual trick of massaging their performance record by missing out these station stops so that, according to the NRES website, the service is scheduled to arrive at Great Malvern just 5 minutes late.

It should'nt be allowed or a heavy fine for missing out stations. Yes I've heard the argument about getting a train to its destination so the next service isnt running late but thats not consolation to the passengers waiting on a platform as the service they were meant to board speeds by without stopping.

Perhaps not in this specific case, but on other journeys, one of the big plusses being sold for the new timetable in December is that it will be more robust with some of the short turn-arounds extended.  The theory goes that this will lead to more on-time trains, and (hopefully) fewer station skips.

TIME WILL TELL !!!   Give an inch, take a mile springs to mind.

No chance, it gets stabled in P2 by 0100!

So it doent have a previous journey to delay it then !

Any way it didnt make it to Great Malvern, was caped at Worcester FS after recoveing just 1 minute of the deficit on leaving Exeter by Weston SM despite omitting the 4 intermediate station stops.

Hmmm, when Selctive Door Opening (SDO) comes into full use in December if an HST has defective SDO the train will only be allowed to call at stations where the full train length can be accomodated. So best hope this SDO is a reliable system or we could see a Paddington service leaving Penzance with its first stop as Plymouth, which may miff some people!!

Are HST guards alowwed to use SDO yet because I havent seen it in operation at short platforms.

comes into play 9th December 2007. cant be used beforehand on HST's

Not sure why that train was cancelled. The depot was well stocked at 1000!

More than likely with broke units!