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« on: March 12, 2016, 12:50:46 »
Hi all,

It's been quite some time since I've posted (where is time going?!) and I thought someone might be intrigued by what train I'm on at the moment!

I'm currently on 1V51 12:25 Cheltenham - Bristol (from Manchester) which is being worked short to Bristol Parkway. On my way to the station I couldn't work out why on earth such a train would be worked short, considering it's on time. Realtime trains still shows it working to Temple Meads (at the time of writing).

I had an answer when the train turned up - I'm currently on board a 170 (which one I didn't see, but standing room only!), which in my 8 years of catching the train between Bristol and Cheltenham I've never experienced before.

I know there's a lot of people that know a lot on here; so by any chance does any one know why perhaps a 170 can't continue to temple meads? Is it routing clearance, and if so, is there a specific reason why? And does anyone have a good memory as to whether a 170 will have been to Bristol before?

Realtime trains isn't showing any odd workings up to Manchester beforehand, so I can't seem to work out where this train has actually come from (again, anyone that knows how to find out more it would be interesting to know!), but I'm guessing it's replacing a voyager that is covering for all the delays that are happening round Sheffield at the moment (cited at the station as a broken down train, as opposed to all the delayed/cancelled trains to Plymouth being attributed to a signalling problem).

I'll try and get a picture at Parkway when we arrive in 10 minutes or so.

Cheers!
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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2016, 13:18:28 »
2x2 Turbostar from Birmingham to Bristol Parkway vice Voyager due to many Class 220/221s displaced by a major signalling fault in the Sheffield area.

As for stopping short at Bristol Parkway, Class 170s are not cleared beyond Stoke Gifford Junction to Filton Abbey Wood and Bristol Temple Meads.
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« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2016, 15:04:43 »
I've just posted why the 170s couldn't go to Bristol Temple Meads here:-
This is another thread where the working is mentioned.

www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=21.0
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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2016, 15:06:52 »
Quote from: phile on March 12, 2016, 15:04:43
I've just posted why the 170s couldn't go to Bristol Temple Meads here:-

Sometime after I did!  Wink
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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2016, 16:42:52 »
1M21 was worked BHM-MAN by the 2x170s earlier on, original Voyager was swapped onto a disrupted Leeds-Southampton.
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