2018 cancellation and amendment log

[whole diary]

[grahame]

14:04 Frome to Swindon due 15:03
14:04 Frome to Swindon due 15:03 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Frome.
This is due to a broken down train earlier today.

Big relief - looks like they've fixed it or found a new(er [replacement]) train at Westbury

Spoke too soon

14:04 Frome to Swindon due 15:03
14:04 Frome to Swindon due 15:03 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system earlier today.

15:18 Swindon to Westbury due 16:01
15:18 Swindon to Westbury due 16:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system earlier today.

So it's lunch time now ... next train from Swindon to Westbury at about twenty to six this evening.  And someone suggested that the North Cotswolds line was bad!

[bobm]

The pain continues....

16:21 Westbury to Swindon due 17:04
16:21 Westbury to Swindon due 17:04 will be cancelled.

This is due to a fault with the signalling system earlier today.

Additional Information
Customers at Westbury and Trowbridge travelling to Chippenham or Swindon should travel on the 16:42 Gloucester service (16:47 from Trowbridge) and change at Bath Spa for the 17:44 service to London Paddington which calls at Chippenham (17:55) and Swindon at 18:11.

Customers at Westbury and Trowbridge travelling to Melksham should contact station staff or use the Customer Help-Point.

Customers at Melksham will be provided road transport to Chippenham from the station car park.

[TaplowGreen]

14:04 Frome to Swindon due 15:03
14:04 Frome to Swindon due 15:03 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Frome.
This is due to a broken down train earlier today.

Big relief - looks like they've fixed it or found a new(er [replacement]) train at Westbury

Spoke too soon

14:04 Frome to Swindon due 15:03
14:04 Frome to Swindon due 15:03 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system earlier today.

15:18 Swindon to Westbury due 16:01
15:18 Swindon to Westbury due 16:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system earlier today.

So it's lunch time now ... next train from Swindon to Westbury at about twenty to six this evening.  And someone suggested that the North Cotswolds line was bad!

You at least get road transport from Melksham..............I don't see too many taxis being laid on from Paddington to Great Malvern or Hereford? 

[bobm]

17:36 Swindon to Westbury due 18:19

17:36 Swindon to Westbury due 18:19 will be started from Chippenham.

It will no longer call at Swindon.

It will be delayed at Chippenham.

This is due to a fault with the signalling system earlier today.

Additional Information
This service will be started from Chippenham but will be delayed. Customers at Swindon should travel to Chippenham on the 17:31 Taunton service.

Fully expected the 17:36 to be cancelled outright.

[grahame]

Fully expected the 17:36 to be cancelled outright.

Fingers crossed that people were in time for the 17:31 and alerted ... if coming through from London to stay on the train - but excellent not to have cancelled the train completely.  Thank you.

[grahame]

Lots of these today.

10:47 Swindon to Westbury due 11:31
Facilities on the 10:47 Swindon to Westbury due 11:31.
Will be formed of 2 coaches instead of 3.
Last Updated:04/05/2018 06:17

Slight "heartstopper" moment when I saw the map at the top of the page as the train above is my steed for the day!

[phile]

Well at least they weren't cancelled

[grahame]

Well at least they weren't cancelled

Perfectly happy with two carriages at present     on a scale of 1 to 100, where 100 is a cancellation of the 17:36, this would struggle to be a 2.

[bobm]

20:02 Cheltenham Spa to Westbury due 21:50

20:02 Cheltenham Spa to Westbury due 21:50 will be reinstated.

It will be terminated at Gloucester.

It will no longer call at Stonehouse, Stroud, Kemble, Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham, Trowbridge and Westbury.

This is due to trespassers on the railway earlier today.

[grahame]

16:20 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
16:20 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

17:28 Swindon to Westbury due 18:11
17:28 Swindon to Westbury due 18:11 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

18:39 Westbury to Swindon due 19:22
18:39 Westbury to Swindon due 19:22 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

19:53 Swindon to Westbury due 20:36
19:53 Swindon to Westbury due 20:36 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[bobm]

Just going back to last night's 20:02.

After terminating at Gloucester it did carry on to Westbury but without a guard or passengers.   At least it had a driver.



Seen here on Opentraintimes while said driver changed ends at Swindon

[grahame]

08:28 Westbury to Swindon reported 45 minutes late - "train late from depot".   Hope the return trip makes a Weymouth connection at Westbury as Sunday is the only day of the week that there are (in theory) connections both ways.

Edit to correct text

[bobm]

08:28 Westbury to Swindon reported 5 minutes late - "train late from depot".   Hope the return trip makes a Weymouth connection at Westbury as Sunday is the only day of the week that there are (in theory) connections both ways.

Terminated at Chippenham with the return starting back from there.  Suspect news was too late for anyone in Swindon to catch the earlier Penzance train to meet it.

[grahame]

08:28 Westbury to Swindon reported 5 minutes late - "train late from depot".   Hope the return trip makes a Weymouth connection at Westbury as Sunday is the only day of the week that there are (in theory) connections both ways.

Terminated at Chippenham with the return starting back from there.  Suspect news was too late for anyone in Swindon to catch the earlier Penzance train to meet it.

Pretty unhappy regular commuters at Trowbridge for Swindon ... and they will be double happy when they find their return train cancelled though lack of crew.  Although it's a Sunday morning, there are people who live in West Wilts and live in Swindon, and rely on public transport to reach their jobs.   Modal change of the sort we (CRP^▸ (Community Rail Partnership)) have set out to foster but which seems at times to be a battle.   Talk of overcrowded buses this weekend (and not rail replacement ones!) too.

[grahame]

09:26 Swindon to Westbury due 10:08
09:26 Swindon to Westbury due 10:08 will be started from Chippenham.
It will no longer call at Swindon.
This is due to this train being late from the depot.

08:47 Warminster to Bristol Temple Meads due 09:44
08:47 Warminster to Bristol Temple Meads due 09:44 has been delayed at Warminster and is now 48 minutes late.
This is due to this train being late from the depot.

Oops ... although the latter isn't on Swindon to Westbury, it's the granting on a TransWilts request for an earlier train from Warminster on a Sunday - and these early Bank Holiday Sunday runs are important marketing for a service that's looking at a new market ...