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« Reply #315 on: May 16, 2017, 13:46:10 » |
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Looks like a new waiting room is being built at Swindon, a stand-alone job between platforms 2 and 3 Bristol end.
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« Reply #317 on: May 17, 2017, 15:26:02 » |
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« Reply #318 on: May 17, 2017, 15:30:27 » |
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Highly likely, in view of it p!ssing with rain.  |
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"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #319 on: May 17, 2017, 15:34:25 » |
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Much welcome rain after the very dry first quarter of the year. It's already rained fivefold today on what my trusty rain gauge recorded for the whole month of April.
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« Reply #320 on: May 17, 2017, 15:54:55 » |
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My trusty rain gauge failed the other day and the new one arrived yesterday so I was out fitting it up the ladder ... er in the rain!  |
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« Reply #321 on: May 17, 2017, 16:00:47 » |
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Photo taken today by any chance? Indeed - at 12:20pm. |
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« Reply #322 on: March 18, 2018, 08:51:05 » |
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Will the engineering works that have completely closed Swindon to trains over this weekend be completed on time, and will the work planned have all been done - or will we find that the severe weather has hampered / stopped the work and things are not as far forward come tomorrow morning as they should be? If work has been hampered / put off, will resources have been able to be used to good effect to do something else which will help reduce future stoppages?
Serious questions - I really haven't a clue as to what was planned, but I suspect some of our resident experts may be able to fill us in.
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« Reply #323 on: March 18, 2018, 11:06:14 » |
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I am not an expert - but there is a series of possessions planned so if there have been delays hopefully there is some slack to catch up in future weeks. https://www.gwr.com/travel-updates/planned-engineering/electrification2018Didcot Parkway to Swindon and Bristol Parkway
The first phase of work will affect services between Didcot Parkway, Swindon, Chippenham, Bristol Parkway and Gloucester.
As a result, there will be no trains via Swindon on the following weekends:
Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 March
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« Reply #324 on: May 04, 2018, 10:45:57 » |
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There are rumours elsewhere (well, on the WNXX▸ Forum actually) that the former mail platform site at Swindon station (where the former Swindon Panel box stands) is going to be converted into an additional passenger platform. In addition a number of 387 units are going to be stabled overnight at Swindon and they are going to be used on 'crowd buster' services in the morning and evening peaks, both to London and Cardiff. 19 GWR▸ drivers positions are going to be created, with a new sub-depot to Reading being located at Swindon station. Not sure yet if this is all fact or fiction.....  |
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« Reply #325 on: May 04, 2018, 11:32:49 » |
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Can't speak about the platform work, but certainly a satellite drivers depot is very much on the agenda as is 387 stabling at Swindon. There are two other satellite depots provisionally planned at Didcot and West Ealing to better match the trains and drivers up at those locations too.
With quite a few Reading and Oxford based drivers living in Didcot and Swindon, and the appeal of any London based drivers who live west of the capital only having to get to Ealing and not having to get into central London, I don't think there will be any shortage of volunteers.
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« Reply #326 on: May 04, 2018, 12:03:33 » |
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Thanks for that update II. Not all rumour then..... |
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« Reply #327 on: May 04, 2018, 12:37:55 » |
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I’ve seen peak extra 12 car trains, (implying 3 x 387) from Swindon in print somewhere, probably a route study or similar.
There’s also a bit about peak extra trains starting from Swindon in the Thames Valley section of the 2015 franchise brief; although that doesn’t mention stock, it can probably be inferred.
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« Reply #328 on: May 04, 2018, 14:12:18 » |
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The up sleeper still calls at Swindon most mornings around 3.15 for staff only. So there must be a few who currently travel to Reading.
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« Reply #329 on: May 04, 2018, 14:22:51 » |
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Over both Oxford and Reading depots I would say there's a good twenty or so that live in Swindon or its surrounding villages and the same again, if not slightly more, for Didcot.
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