Adelante Cameo? (18/03/2008)

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[Lee]

From the FGW^▸ (First Great Western) website :

11:21 London Paddington to Oxford due 12:18
This train has been revised.

Service is now formed 5 carriages vice 8 today.

[Steve44]

Same as this later Journey, also found on the FGW^▸ (First Great Western) site:

13:30 Oxford to London Paddington due 14:29
This train has been revised.This is due to an earlier train fault.

This service will be formed 5 carriages instead of 8 today.

i thought at the time that it wasn't the usual shortformed message they normally post and then saw your post on here.

[IanL]

The 0542 PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains) to WOS^» (Worcester Shrub Hill - next trains) and its return the 0837 WOS to PAD were also this formation. Reasons for this happening were given elsewhere in a post by redskin:

"As for the Cl.180's, at present both 180's are supposed to start the day as a 10 car formation on 2 round trips to Oxford from Paddington. At present we only have 2 180's available to us, if one of them is not going to make it for service (faults etc.) we are told not to run a single 180 on the 0710 Oxford to Paddington, but put it on the 0837 Worcester and use the HST^▸ (High Speed Train) on the 0710 Oxford."

So the trains kept to fill gaps due to unreliability end up causing the unreliability and rescheduling themselves!

[Btline]

Where are they keeping the spare Adelante? At Oxford?