Over running engineering works between Swindon and Bristol Parkway 25/7

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[autotank]

Anyone have more details - currently delays of 30 minutes between Bristol Pway and Swindon. Are trains being diverted via Bath?

[grahame]

No details today (I'm on the Bristol to Paddington via Trowbridge, running on time) but they overran yesterday too - 20 minute delay to 07:30 Westbury to Swindon which in turn delayed 08:20 Swindon to Weymouth. (great day otherwise ... report to follow in "TransWilts")

[Lee]

Not sure whether it had any bearing on the engineering works, but there was also a major power failure on that route on Saturday night (23/7).

This had the effect of halting every train in the Swindon area, just as I arrived in at just after 2100 on the 2001 Cheltenham Spa-Westbury service. Our service was cancelled from Swindon, and the passengers on it including myself sent on our way very efficiently by FGW^▸ (First Great Western) staff to Melksham, Trowbridge and one all the way to Southampton by various taxis - very good effort on the their part, THANK YOU 

Just before we left, they had diverted one Swansea-bound HST^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) via Gloucester, and were preparing to arrange alternative transport for many other passengers.

Finally, I was also on the 0730 Westbury-Swindon, 0820 Swindon-Weymouth and 1756 return services on Sunday (24/7). I'll let grahame do the detailed report, but I can confirm that it went very well indeed.