Christmas/New Year 2016 Engineering Work

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[ChrisB]

Slowly more is appearing here

Friday 23 December
 Minor alterations to peak services to / from London Paddington. Additional trains will operate between London Paddington and the West of England
 
Saturday 24 December
 Major engineering work is taking place between London Paddington and Ealing Broadway with all lines closed. A normal service will operate on other routes with trains finishing earlier than the normal timetable
 
Sunday 25 December
 No service
Monday 26 December
 No service
 
Tuesday 27 December
 Major engineering work is taking place between London Paddington and Ealing Broadway and also Newport and Bridgend with all lines closed. An amended weekday service will run with trains starting later than the normal timetable. Some trains in the morning and evening peak services will be cancelled or amended. Additional trains will run from the West of England to Ealing Broadway
 
Wednesday 28 December Major engineering work is taking place between London Paddington and Ealing Broadway and also Newport and Bridgend with all lines closed. An amended weekday service will run with trains starting later than the normal timetable. Some trains in the morning and evening peak services will be cancelled or amended. Additional trains will run from the West of England to Ealing Broadway
 
Thursday 29 December Major engineering work is taking place between London Paddington and Ealing Broadway. An amended weekday service will run with trains starting later than the normal timetable. Some trains in the morning and evening peak services will be cancelled or amended. Additional trains will run from the West of England to Ealing Broadway

 
Friday 30 December An amended weekday service will run with trains starting later than the normal timetable. Some morning and evening peak services to and from London Paddington will be amended or cancelled. Additional trains will run from the West of England to London Paddington
 
Saturday 31 December An amended service will run with trains finishing earlier than then normal timetable (from 22:00 on most routes). New years eve special trains will run. The 00:05, 00:30 and 01:00 London Paddington to Twyford services will extend to Reading. Additional trains will run from London Paddington to Reading between 01:55 and 05:29

 
Sunday 1 January 2016
 Major engineering work is taking place between Bridgend and Newport with all lines closed. An amended service will apply on most routes

 
Monday 2 January Major engineering work is taking place between Bridgend and Newport with all lines closed. An amended service will apply on most routes with trains starting later than the normal timetable. Some morning and evening peak services to / from London Paddington will be amended or cancelled. Additional trains will run from the West of England to London Paddington

 
Tuesday 3 January
  Originating points will differ on a few early morning services

I suspect an adjusted Saturday service between 27th & New Year's Eve - if you visit National Rail Enquiries http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ you can enquire about timetables between for the period from December27-28.
 

[Surrey 455]

Saturday 31 December An amended service will run with trains finishing earlier than then normal timetable (from 22:00 on most routes). New years eve special trains will run. The 00:05, 00:30 and 01:00 London Paddington to Twyford services will extend to Reading.

This quote seems curious. Normally if you are at Paddington and see Twyford on the departure boards as the destination you'll find that it actually continues to Reading anyway. Reason being is that GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) don't want Reading passengers unintentionally catching a slower stopping service when they could get a non stop service instead. At all other calling stations the train will be advertised as being for Reading.

[TaplowGreen]

Glad to see additional trains running between Paddington-West Country on 23/12 - let's hope there's a lot of them to at least mitigate the usual chaos!

No service (yet again) on Boxing Day I see..............however as a special early festive treat I will spare everyone my traditional rant on this subject! (for now anyway!) 

Ealing Broadway to be the terminus for London - West of England services? - will it be able to cope with the volumes?

[phile]

Saturday 31 December An amended service will run with trains finishing earlier than then normal timetable (from 22:00 on most routes). New years eve special trains will run. The 00:05, 00:30 and 01:00 London Paddington to Twyford services will extend to Reading.

This quote seems curious. Normally if you are at Paddington and see Twyford on the departure boards as the destination you'll find that it actually continues to Reading anyway. Reason being is that GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) don't want Reading passengers unintentionally catching a slower stopping service when they could get a non stop service instead. At all other calling stations the train will be advertised as being for Reading.

They then jump onto long distance HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train) resulting in long distance passengers having to stand.     Particularly prevalent at the evening peak.

[ellendune]

I dimly recall that, during the resignalling of Paddington in the 1960's, Ealing Broadway was the terminus for a fairly lengthy period.  So it must have some capacity.  I am not concerned about the week between Christmas and New Year.  Am a little concerned about Saturday 24th though. 

[Adelante_CCT]

Glad to see additional trains running between Paddington-West Country on 23/12 - let's hope there's a lot of them to at least mitigate the usual chaos!

Additional services at:
10:33 to Penzance
12:36 to Plymouth
14:36 to Plymouth

[IndustryInsider]

I've put a summary of what works are taking place that make these alterations necessary in the Crossrail thread:

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=818.690

[BBM]

I dimly recall that, during the resignalling of Paddington in the 1960's, Ealing Broadway was the terminus for a fairly lengthy period.  So it must have some capacity.  I am not concerned about the week between Christmas and New Year.  Am a little concerned about Saturday 24th though. 

It was also used as a temporary terminus for a week or so after the Ladbroke Grove crash in 1999. It was certainly pretty chaotic then with queues in the evening peak stretching back from the footbridge to well down the Central Line platforms. I recall that the situation improved after a couple of days when it was decided to suspend the HEx service until things returned back to normal, however I'm sure things will be rather quieter at Christmas this year.

[Louis94]

Saturday 31 December An amended service will run with trains finishing earlier than then normal timetable (from 22:00 on most routes). New years eve special trains will run. The 00:05, 00:30 and 01:00 London Paddington to Twyford services will extend to Reading.

This quote seems curious. Normally if you are at Paddington and see Twyford on the departure boards as the destination you'll find that it actually continues to Reading anyway. Reason being is that GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) don't want Reading passengers unintentionally catching a slower stopping service when they could get a non stop service instead. At all other calling stations the train will be advertised as being for Reading.

Those trains do actually terminate at Twyford on Sunday mornings, engineering works. Trains at that time of night won't be advertised as Twyford anyway, as there is no other services to Reading!

[4064ReadingAbbey]

I dimly recall that, during the resignalling of Paddington in the 1960's, Ealing Broadway was the terminus for a fairly lengthy period.  So it must have some capacity.  I am not concerned about the week between Christmas and New Year.  Am a little concerned about Saturday 24th though. 

I remember that! Kensington Olympia was also used as a terminus - I recall returning to Uni from a visit home and catching the District Line shuttle to High Street Kensington.

This would seem to be no longer possible as an alternative.

[IndustryInsider]

I remember that! Kensington Olympia was also used as a terminus

As was Marylebone.

[W5tRailfinder]

Does the work at Kensal Green include the Up Main to Down Relief facing crossover that is required to allow any Crossrail trains on the Up Main to cross the layout and reach the tunnels?

Or is this work going to need another blockade later?

[Boppy]

Hi,

Has anyone got a copy of the flyer that is on the back of the seats on the trains about the Christmas closure? - I'm sure it said that there will be NO district line from Ealing Broadway (on the page with the line diagram) during this period either.  But looking on FGW^▸ (First Great Western)'s site I can't see the same bit of info - kind of impacts how useful travelling to Ealing Broadway will be...

Boppy.

[ChrisB]

plug your journey into the TfL^» (Transport for London - about) journey planner which will show you any engineering works on the tube

[bobm]

Hi,

Has anyone got a copy of the flyer that is on the back of the seats on the trains about the Christmas closure? - I'm sure it said that there will be NO district line from Ealing Broadway (on the page with the line diagram) during this period either.  But looking on FGW^▸ (First Great Western)'s site I can't see the same bit of info - kind of impacts how useful travelling to Ealing Broadway will be...

Boppy.

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