Delays to services between Westbury and Trowbridge Due to safety checks being made between Westbury and Trowbridge trains have to run at reduced speed on the Bristol Temple Meads bound line.
Impact:
Train services running through these stations may be delayed by up to 20 mins. An estimate for the resumption of normal services will be provided as soon as the problem has been fully assessed.
The 07:34 Westbury to Swindon and the 08:49 Swindon to Westbury were cancelled, even though the journey check just says "delayed up to 20 minutes". Everything else (as far as I can see) that runs between Westbury and Trowbridge ran, although there were some delays and one train was stopped / restarted with a new set at Bristol, which would have been frustrating to through passengers.
We seem to have had an awful lot of infrastructure based issues in the last few weeks, and we've got to be very careful not to alienate
FGW▸ with a series of gripes, report and complaints ... when they are probably just as frustrated as we are at the lack of provision of reliable facilities to run their trains. It does seem unfortunate that the cancellation chosen this morning is again on a service where there's a 136 minute wait for the next one, rather than on the 30 minute service via Bath, and that it's a service that runs to the d.m.u. outpost of Swindon where there's no depot / other train from which a 153 could be detached to form the return service.
I'm hoping we've just had a string of bad luck, but I don't want to depend on just hope ... so hopefully
there's a look being taken at this and seeing how things can be all worked together to ensure we have a reputation for a reliable service, an done which provides excellent information and alternatives on those rare occasions it has problems.