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« Reply #75 on: April 05, 2018, 17:20:52 »

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HST (High Speed Train) and 9 / 10 car 80x will only fit entirely in platforms 3, 13, & 15.

Interesting about the HST's. Does this mean they will no longer be able to use other platforms? (GWR (Great Western Railway) didn't used to use other platforms that often for HST's but it did happen, and XC (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) still have theirs too).

I suspect they'll still use 8 and 12 headed out for Taunton, but they'll block 7 and 11 in doing so?

Thank goodness blue lines weren't on back order.   Missing out Dilton Marsh and arranging a taxis from Westbury is one thing, but can you imagine missing out Temple Meads and using taxis from Parson Street  Wink
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« Reply #76 on: April 05, 2018, 17:25:14 »

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HST (High Speed Train) and 9 / 10 car 80x will only fit entirely in platforms 3, 13, & 15.

Interesting about the HST's. Does this mean they will no longer be able to use other platforms? (GWR (Great Western Railway) didn't used to use other platforms that often for HST's but it did happen, and XC (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) still have theirs too).
I suspect they'll still use 8 and 12 headed out for Taunton, but they'll block 7 and 11 in doing so?

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« Reply #77 on: April 07, 2018, 00:07:53 »

Never thought permisive passenger working was ever a good idea, remember the Stafford crash, and more recently at Plymouth. A busy railway needs to be even safer, and have all the checks and balances we should have learned over the last hundred years plus. We have been lucky so far...
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« Reply #78 on: April 07, 2018, 10:08:05 »

If you abolish Permissive Working you can potentially forget running the service we see today.  There just isn't the capacity available at major stations to allow the timetables to work without it.  Also, how would you operate 'Portion Working' without it.  All methods of train operation involve some form of risk (any form of human movement does), but the risks need to be controlled as best they can, not prevented entirely, otherwise we wouldn't turn a wheel (or leave our beds in the morning).
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« Reply #79 on: April 07, 2018, 11:27:11 »

I usually get the 16:15 from Bristol Temple Meads to Bristol Parkway, and oddly since the signalling upgrade last week, this train has had to wait by the old for 5-10 minutes outside Bristol Parkway for a clear platform.

Whilst I don't usually mind the delay, if I have a good book, but I finished my book Friday morning so I chose to investigate a bit more.

Despite being told again that our 7 minute delay was waiting a platform, it was confirmed to me that that we where waiting for the London bound train that had priority for the junction outside Bristol Parkway, and it was nothing to do with platforms.

This makes more sense, but why since last week has this happened? Is it design, bad luck or systemic?

If it is by design, then no matter how many tracks they run from Bristol Parkway to Bristol Temple Meads then without major changes to junctions no extra trains can be run. Give up any idea of 6 London bound trains from Bristol, 2 Cross Country Trains and extra local traffic.

If it is bad luck, are any other areas experiencing lots of regular delays, or is this just due to irregular and poor time keeping of trains.

If it is systemic, why should local trains have to wait 7 minutes outside a station and not be waved through onto another track and platform, rather than waiting for a London bound train to cross a junction?
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« Reply #80 on: April 07, 2018, 13:34:09 »

If you abolish Permissive Working you can potentially forget running the service we see today.  There just isn't the capacity available at major stations to allow the timetabes to work without it.  Also, how would you operate 'Portion Working' without it.  All methods of train operation involve some form of risk (any form of human movement does), but the risks need to be controlled as best they can, not prevented entirely, otherwise we wouldn't turn a wheel (or leave our beds in the morning).
Beds are dangerous...most people die in one.
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« Reply #81 on: April 07, 2018, 14:12:52 »

I usually get the 16:15 from Bristol Temple Meads to Bristol Parkway, and oddly since the signalling upgrade last week, this train has had to wait by the old for 5-10 minutes outside Bristol Parkway for a clear platform.

Whilst I don't usually mind the delay, if a I have a good book, but I finished my book Friday morning so I chose to investigate a bit more.

Despite being told again that our 7 minute delay was waiting a platform, it was confirmed to me that that we where waiting for the London bound train that had priority for the junction outside Bristol Parkway, and it was nothing to do with platforms.

This makes more sense, but why since last week has this happened? Is it design, bad luck or systemic?

If it is by design, then no matter how many tracks they run from Bristol Parkway to Bristol Temple Meads then without major changes to junctions no extra trains can be run. Give up any idea of 6 London bound trains from Bristol, 2 Cross Country Trains and extra local traffic.

If it is bad luck, are any other areas experiencing lots of regular delays, or is this just due to irregular and poor time keeping of trains.

If it is systemic, why should local trains have to wait 7 minutes outside a station and not be waved through onto another track and platform, rather than waiting for a London bound train to cross a junction?
The local 2Dxx trains have pathing allowance in their timetable just before Bristol Parkway, so that the Cardiff to London train can get into Parkway platform 3 first.

The ARS (Automatic Route Setting) software mis-handled this allowance, expecting it to apply at the signal before the station.  But that signal is AFTER the converging junction with the line from South Wales, so ARS used to route the local train into platform 4 first, causing the London train (if on time) to be delayed.

The ARS system has now been updated, to recognise that the local has to be held on the curve from Filton Abbey Wood.

So that now raises the question; how late does the Cardiff to London train have to be, before it's "right" to route the Temple Meads to Parkway train first?

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« Reply #82 on: April 07, 2018, 15:19:46 »

Thank you for your very good answer
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« Reply #83 on: April 07, 2018, 19:18:24 »

Why do those terminators not use P1 - isn't that one of the things it was built for? As it is, the other users of P1 and P4 are a few "trains in excess of platform capacity", mainly XC (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) and GWR (Great Western Railway) north-south, and P1 is unused at the relevant times. Plus that means they leave southward from a nominally south/west platform.
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« Reply #84 on: April 07, 2018, 20:01:47 »

The move from the UP FILTON line to Bristol Parkway P1 has not been commissioned yet.  The facing crossover and signal to allow this is at the old Filton platform site and that will be commissioned when the Filton 4 Tracking is commissioned at Christmas/New Year 2018/2019.  Well, thats what the Signalling Scheme Plan shows anyway.

Edit to Add: Same for Platform 2.
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« Reply #85 on: April 12, 2018, 13:57:49 »

I've noticed since the new signalling was installed over Easter, when trains are arriving into Temple Meads now, they slow almost to a complete standstill in line with the end of the platform then roll through to their stopping point.

Does anyone know any reasoning for this?

Seems a bit odd, that trains accelerate until the eventually come to a stand  Huh
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« Reply #86 on: April 12, 2018, 14:17:11 »

I've noticed since the new signalling was installed over Easter, when trains are arriving into Temple Meads now, they slow almost to a complete standstill in line with the end of the platform then roll through to their stopping point.

Does anyone know any reasoning for this?

Seems a bit odd, that trains accelerate until the eventually come to a stand  Huh

In the old signalling, there were stop signs on platforms to allow permissive markings up to a certain point rather than signals, but they have been replaced by actual signals and (I think) been moved somewhat.  Signals require some extra safety features that weren't required when there were no signals, and (pending provision of a solution that works for Network Rail and the RSSB (Rail Safety and Standards Board)) trains are operating under caution.

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« Reply #87 on: April 12, 2018, 14:49:16 »

The line speed has dropped from 25 to 10 into platforms 3-12.
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« Reply #88 on: April 12, 2018, 16:00:10 »

There is already a topic running here that gives all the answers: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=16746.0

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« Reply #89 on: April 12, 2018, 16:40:12 »

There is already a topic running here that gives all the answers: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=16746.0



Apologies, I did look but missed it

Thank you for the answers above
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