Have I missed SWT starting an alternative route to Cornwall?

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[LiskeardRich]

From journey updates.

Cancellations to services between Plymouth and Liskeard
Due to a tree blocking the railway between Plymouth and Liskeard:
Train services running through these stations may be cancelled, delayed by up to 60 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until 19:30 05/06.
Customer Advice
South West Trains are conveying passengers via any reasonable route until further notice. Arrangements have been made for Great Western Railway rail tickets to be accepted for these journeys. South West Trains is accepting GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) via any reasonable route.

[ChrisB]

I guess they're thinking pax might drive around to Exeter? and want to travel on first departure? I can see the logic (I think)

[LiskeardRich]

Either that or they've copy and pasted a section from another closure? Has Cowley Bridge flooded again?

XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) aren't going west of Exeter unsurprisingly

[LiskeardRich]

1A89 looks like the offending train, losing around 100 minutes between st Germans and Plymouth.

[ChrisB]

Surely it's an offending *tree* this time around?

[stuving]

I guess they're thinking pax might drive around to Exeter? and want to travel on first departure? I can see the logic (I think)

What if you are waiting at Exeter for that 16:03 London train, and now it is going to be very late. Most would cram into an XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) train and change at Bristol, but a few might prefer direct to Waterloo, so that option is offered.

[bobm]

1A89 looks like the offending train, losing around 100 minutes between st Germans and Plymouth.

1C82 - the 12:05 London Paddington to Penzance - was the one that actually hit the tree.

1A89 - the 13:03 from Penzance to London Paddington - was held at Saltash while the tree was removed and arrived into Plymouth 140 minutes late.  (It was already half an hour late before it got to Saltash due to problems in Cornwall.)