2019 - TransWilts cancellation and amendments log

[whole diary]

[grahame]

07:33 Westbury to Swindon due 08:15
07:33 Westbury to Swindon due 08:15 has been delayed at Westbury and is now 12 minutes late.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

[grahame]

11:47 Westbury to Swindon due 12:32
11:47 Westbury to Swindon due 12:32 will be cancelled.
This is due to a broken down train.

12:49 Swindon to Frome due 13:41
12:49 Swindon to Frome due 13:41 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a broken down train.

Starting a new "blame game" to help me see who we can shout at concerning cancellation levels:
Attribution check:  [Network Rail / TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company) / Passenger / Public / Act of God]

[bobm]

Freight train failed across the junction near Theale blocking both lines on the Berks & Hants.

WoE services diverted via Melksham.  12:03 Paddington to Penzance starts from Reading.

Buses Pewsey to Swindon. 

[grahame]

Freight train failed across the junction near Theale blocking both lines on the Berks & Hants.

WoE services diverted via Melksham.  12:03 Paddington to Penzance starts from Reading.

Buses Pewsey to Swindon. 

Thanks - perhaps I should fine-tune my "TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company)" attribution to our operator or another, but not sure how I would know from Journey Check??

[grahame]

WoE services diverted via Melksham.  12:03 Paddington to Penzance starts from Reading.

Two tracks - NOW!

[bobm]

Well you can blame a FOC^▸ (Freight Operating Company) for this one.  Freightliner. 

[grahame]

11:00 Weymouth to Swindon due 13:18
11:00 Weymouth to Swindon due 13:18 was terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Trowbridge, Melksham, Chippenham and Swindon.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

13:38 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:54
13:38 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:54 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Further Information

I guess they're running over half their route so don't count as a cancellation?    Sorry - for Melksham passengers they do!     After a good month in November, we start December with good ole "shortage of train crew"

[grahame]

16:21 Westbury to Swindon due 17:03
17:36 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18

17:36 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault on this train.

Oh lovely - busiest train of the day, and a gap of over an hour to the next one.   Very interesting that the fault has been identified three hours ahead and this is the only cancellation in the area - previous and following trips on the same diagram look to be running.   Perhaps the "fault" is that it's running out of fuel?

[IndustryInsider]

It is a fuel issue.

[grahame]

14:10 Frome to Swindon due 15:07
14:10 Frome to Swindon due 15:07 will be cancelled.
This is due to a broken down train.

15:19 Swindon to Westbury due 16:00
15:19 Swindon to Westbury due 16:00 will be cancelled.
This is due to a broken down train.

[grahame]

05:17 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:09
05:17 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:09 has been previously delayed, has been further delayed at Swindon and is now 15 minutes late.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system.

With a 10 minute wait scheduled at Westbury (this week) it left there just 1 minute late at 07:02, and the Paddington connection at 07:04 WAS made.

From Monday next, this becomes the 06:11 from Swindon, still 06:36 at Melksham but leaves Westbury at 06:54 and Warminster at 07:03 before sitting at Salisbury for 12 minutes (07:23 to 07:35).   Really going to please passengers going beyond Salisbury (NOT!!) - it doesn't allow a connection to an earlier London train, which would have been good reason.

[grahame]

19:32 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 21:33
19:32 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 21:33 is being delayed between Chippenham and Swindon and is now expected to be 6 minutes late.
This is due to animals on the railway.

[grahame]

07:03 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 09:05
07:03 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 09:05 will be delayed at Swindon.
This is due to train crew being delayed.

The "school train" from Swindon and one of the few remaining none-IET^▸ (Intercity Express Train) trains via Stroud.  I suspect that staff rota changes mean that Gloucester crews no longer come south of Swindon, and Westbury crews don't go north of Swindon.

[grahame]

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:08
06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:08 will be terminated at Salisbury.
It will no longer call at Romsey and Southampton Central.
This is due to a fault on this train.

Due off Salisbury at 07:35 ... next train 08:33 - ouch.    On none-strike days, passengers could fall back to the 07:50 from Salisbury.

[grahame]

16:25 Westbury to Swindon due 17:07
16:25 Westbury to Swindon due 17:07 has been cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.