A new reason for delays..

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From GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) JourneyCheck:

16:59 Brighton to Bristol Temple Meads due 20:26
Will be formed of 2 coaches instead of 3. There are no reservations on this service.
This is due to a gas leak near the railway earlier today.

Now, I'm prepared to believe that there was a perfectly logical chain of events from the gas leak to the short train. But doesn't that suggest some startling images of just how that third carriage went missing?

I saw that one earlier 


We have three dogs at the moment, one of whom was passing a lot of very smelly wind earlier ... is there some connection?

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From GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) JourneyCheck:

16:59 Brighton to Bristol Temple Meads due 20:26
Will be formed of 2 coaches instead of 3. There are no reservations on this service.
This is due to a gas leak near the railway earlier today.

Now, I'm prepared to believe that there was a perfectly logical chain of events from the gas leak to the short train. But doesn't that suggest some startling images of just how that third carriage went missing?

I saw that one earlier 

We have three dogs at the moment, one of whom was passing a lot of very smelly wind earlier ... is there some connection?

The gas leak was between Gloucester and Cheltenham, just north of Barnwood, resulting in a line closure.    The outward working, 10 50 Great Malvern to Brighton, was stranded on the wrong.   This meant that any northbound trains to Worcester or Great Malvern had to terminate Gloucester and one of these forming the 10 50 Great Malvern to Brighton starting afresh from Gloucester and would have been a 2 Car.  The cause of delay is traced back to the root cause which was the gas leak.. 



Edit note: Quote marks / formatting corrected, for clarity. CfN.

[TonyK]

As we say in my native Lancashire "Can tha' smell gas, or is it me?"