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Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Falmouth Branch line
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on: September 02, 2007, 13:09:19
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Falmouth was cancelled from 16:00, no guard, rather hilarious story behind it, but the basic jist of it is 'Swindon'.
Falmouth unit forms a Truro to Penzance passenger service at end of play so the 18:03 Paddington to Penzance was held at Truro and made additional stops at Camborne/St.Erth to cover the missing ex Falmouth working...
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Journey by Journey / London to the West / Re: The Golden Hind
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on: August 30, 2007, 18:07:15
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This service is a 'don't cancel' job which would explain this move. Fair play to the gaurd, a very rare move by HSS▸ staff! As for the up Hind I don't think this was Firsts fault. The weather on Tuesday was AWFUL and they ran a fairly decent service. I didn't see ANY late running.
Today it aint a 'don't cancel job' From morning e-mail bulletin (30/08/2007) ;- 0505 Penzance to London Paddington has been cancelled at Bodmin Parkway. Failure of MTU▸ 43198 'Oxfordshire 2007', train had departed from Bodmin but failed and set back to detrain passengers. |
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All across the Great Western territory / Who's who on Western railways / Re: Alison Forster Mans The Catering Trolley
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on: August 29, 2007, 13:11:04
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What tripe, rosters/resources in Swindon are accountable for a huge amount of delay minutes due to silly mistakes, mainly due to them being unable to cope with the volume of work they have to do. Local control was far better with the 'managers' knowing the crew, who would do what and what could be done. Swindon are fairly in the dark and I am aware of instances of trains being cancelled while there was crew sat spare, simply because SWI» didnt know they were there.
As mentioned, Ive known three guards rostered on the same job and none to another job, people being shown as working when they are in the middle of a holiday abroad, diagrams amended for no reason and when followed it goes tits up. The other main problem is it can take up to a hour to actually get someone to pick the phone up in Swindon, this alone causing much delay when a descision is needed and no one will pick up a phone or its constantly engaged.
Maybe part of the problem is Swindon is short staffed? But then who would want to work in Swindon?? Hence why agency staff have been put in many of these positions who know nothing about the railway, reminds me of a conversation I had when the girl on the other end didnt understand 24 hour clock, yes, this really happened.
So is it really a success???
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: FGW have got a couple of things right! (not many though)
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on: August 26, 2007, 13:38:02
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I'm aware that you are quoting terminus stations for branch lines, and not traffic on the whole line - but in the case of Looe and Newquay, aren't they the only substantive stations on the lines, with limited traffic only to / from intermediate stations? I'm not sure about Gunnislake - how many people use stations such as Calston and Bere Alston, and on the Falmouth line, how busy are Falmouth Docks and Penryn? What I'm getting at is ... what can we conclude about the total number of journeys? On the Gunnislake line the number of people using Calstock/Bere Alston if combined would at least equal the Gunnislake figure. On the Falmouth the number of people using Penryn/Penmere would exceed that of Falmouth Town. |
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