2021 - TransWilts cancellation and amendment log

[whole diary]

[grahame]

13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:56
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:56 is being delayed at Chippenham.
This is due to a late running freight train.

[grahame]

11:06 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47
11:06 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be diverted between Chippenham and Trowbridge.
It will no longer call at Melksham.
It will be delayed at Trowbridge and is expected to be 7 minutes late.
This is due to congestion.

[grahame]

12:16 Westbury to Swindon due 13:01
12:16 Westbury to Swindon due 13:01 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to congestion.

Could do with double track ....

[grahame]

07:37 Westbury to Swindon due 08:20
Facilities on the 07:37 Westbury to Swindon due 08:20.
Toilet facilities are not available. Disabled toilet facilities are not available.
This is due to a fault on this train.

And all subsequent trains to the 17:36 ex Swindon.

[bobm]

But it is three coaches rather than two.

[grahame]

But it is three coaches rather than two.

Were it consistently three coaches (and were we at MRUG^» (Melksham Rail User Group - site) and the CRP^▸ (Community Rail Partnership) allowed to, and actually working in tandem) we could make a really good job of growing and marketing.  In fact, if that bracketed condition were met, we could be helping make the services a darned sight busier than they are for the benefit of the railway, it's financial position, prospects.  For the benefit of congestion, dirty air and climate (longer term stuff), and for the benefit of the customers - existing and new.

P.S. That's three passenger coaches I'm talking about ... rather than two passenger coaches and a battery car.  Though that would be more sustainable than the current 2 or 3 car diesel.

[grahame]

11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:48
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:48 will be starting late from Swindon.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

[brooklea]

11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:48
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:48 will be starting late from Swindon.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

Left Swindon on time, and arrived a couple of minutes late at Westbury (following a freight train over the single line).

[grahame]

11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:48
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:48 will be starting late from Swindon.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

Left Swindon on time, and arrived a couple of minutes late at Westbury (following a freight train over the single line).

Often hard to know what the alerts really mean.   A couple of minutes late is no problem in there parts provided it does not lead to a missed connection.

12:05 Westbury to Swindon due 12:47
12:05 Westbury to Swindon due 12:47 has been delayed at Westbury and is now 30 minutes late.
This is due to a fault on this train.

I don't there anything at Swindon for that to connect into! 

[Trowres]

The TransWilts service used the down (reversible) line between Thingley and Wootton Bassett, being shown on TIGER as being platformed at Chippenham concurrently with the Bristol-Swindon IET^▸ (Intercity Express Train). Both connected at Swindon with a Swansea-Paddington train.

[grahame]

17:50 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 20:36
17:50 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 20:36 has been reinstated.
It will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Gloucester, Stonehouse, Stroud, Kemble, Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a fault on this train.

[bobm]

18:39 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21

18:39 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21 will be cancelled.

This is due to a shortage of train crew.

20:45 Swindon to Westbury due 21:26

20:45 Swindon to Westbury due 21:26 will be cancelled.

This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[grahame]

08:45 Westbury to Chippenham due 09:10
An additional train service has been planned to operate as shown 08:45 Westbury to Chippenham due 09:10.

08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be started from Chippenham.
It will no longer call at Swindon.
It will be delayed at Chippenham.
This is due to a tree blocking the railway earlier today.

Missed logging the cancellation of the 07:35 Westbury to Swindon - that was 'replaced' by the extra 08:45 above.   The stock for the cancelled train arrives at Westbury from Bristol just before it heads out for Swindon; tree blocking line at Keynsham this morning clearly put paid to those plans today.

[TaplowGreen]

07:35 Westbury to Swindon due 08:17
07:35 Westbury to Swindon due 08:17 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with barriers at a level crossing.

08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with barriers at a level crossing.

[grahame]

07:35 Westbury to Swindon due 08:17
07:35 Westbury to Swindon due 08:17 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with barriers at a level crossing.

08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with barriers at a level crossing.

But we don't HAVE any level crossings .... oh - wait - our line is working and can be passed to "more important" trains which could (at the least) be polite enough to stop along the way and make up the journey opportunities they have stolen.

Picking up the "freewheeling" comments from yesterday, good ole railway - telling people operationally that the train is cancelled, but not telling them how to travel instead:

07:35 Westbury to Swindon due 08:17
07:35 Westbury to Swindon due 08:17 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with barriers at a level crossing.
Further Information

If you hold a valid single, return, or weekly ticket, you will be able to claim compensation for delays of 15 minutes or more. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway).com/DelayRepay