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1  Journey by Journey / London to the West / Re: Problems with the Night Riviera sleeper - December 2014 onwards on: April 05, 2015, 19:19:01
Why cant the sleeper operate out of Waterloo?
2  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Great Western Railway: on-board catering, buffets, Travelling Chef, Pullman - ongoing discussion on: December 08, 2014, 18:06:59
I see that Travelling Chef has disappeared from their Website.
Anyone know if what they said about an improved Express Cafe offering had any truth in it or not?
3  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Great Western Railway: on-board catering, buffets, Travelling Chef, Pullman - ongoing discussion on: July 11, 2014, 16:26:26
Very sad news with regards to the Travelling Chefs. Anyone know whether the standard buffet selection may be improved to make up for the lost service. Also any ideas as to which services might get Pullmans, and also what they intend to do with regards to the decreased seating capacity.
4  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Great Western Railway: on-board catering, buffets, Travelling Chef, Pullman - ongoing discussion on: April 14, 2014, 15:55:29
Quote from: bobm on April 09, 2014, 10:40:48
FGW▸ (First Great Western) have made a change to four services concerning the provision of Travelling Chefs.

The service has been removed from
09:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central
11:55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington

The service has been added to
07:45 London Paddington to Swansea
11:28 Swansea to London Paddington




I notice that in their summer timetable as currently available, http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/~/media/PDF/TicketsAndTrainTimes/TrainTimes/MAY%202014%20TIMETABLE/STANDARD%20PRINT/C01DL45287600Web.ashx it doesn't have this new information. It also has the supposed return, or not I'm not entirely sure any more of the services to Bristol. I really wish that FGW would get their info right on this topic, as I am an irregular traveler and normally try to time my trains around those with travelling chefs, yet the last time I went that way both my trains had no travelling chef, even though they were listed in the timetable as having it.
5  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Great Western Railway: on-board catering, buffets, Travelling Chef, Pullman - ongoing discussion on: December 17, 2013, 22:23:41
In reply to my previous question, it is apparently the time table that is wrong, not the internet page
"Hi

 Apologies for delay in getting back to you. I can confirm that the 09:57 and 10:57 (from reading) both have a Travelling Chef service on board.

 Unfortunately there is a mistake in the timetable. Apologies for this.

 -Ollie"
seems like some good news to me or lack of bad news
6  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Great Western Railway: on-board catering, buffets, Travelling Chef, Pullman - ongoing discussion on: December 09, 2013, 15:46:24
I have just noticed on the new timetable, valid from today, that Bristol seems to have lost its travelling chef services from London at 9:30 and 10:30, and one service to south Wales has changed from 8:45 to 9:15. This is not reflected though ton the Travelling chef page of their website and was wondering whether anyone could shed some light on the matter.
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