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« on: February 25, 2008, 06:50:40 »

From the FGW (First Great Western) website :

05:56 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington due 08:06
This train has been cancelled.This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable.

06:30 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington due 08:14
This train will be cancelled.This is due to a train fault.

06:40 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington due 08:18
This train has been revised.It will additionally call at: Reading.
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« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2008, 17:48:20 »

That was two trains from Swindon cancelled.  What they didn't say, but kindly did, was make the 06:40 also stop at Swindon as well as Reading!
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2008, 17:51:41 »

That was two trains from Swindon cancelled.  What they didn't say, but kindly did, was make the 06:40 also stop at Swindon as well as Reading!

Scheduled to stop at Swindon anyway.

When this happens they usually stop at Didcot. Not today...

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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2008, 20:23:13 »

Directive from on high issued in December is that the 0640 Bristol only calls additionally at Reading now, when the 0630 Bristol is cancelled. Although as 2 consecutive services from Swindon to Didcot were cancelled (0556 Cheltenham & 0630 Bristol), the 0458 Swansea was called additionally at Didcot.
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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2008, 21:41:50 »

That was two trains from Swindon cancelled.  What they didn't say, but kindly did, was make the 06:40 also stop at Swindon as well as Reading!

Hi, Timbertool, and welcome to the forum!

I'm sorry that you have suffered a bad experience in travelling today: however, as you will probably see from the other posts in this topic - sometimes, things just don't seem to make any sense!

Hope you have better luck tomorrow?

Chris.  Cheesy
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