Accident at Salisbury - GWR Alternative travel plans

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[grahame]

early notes ... significant is
* Buses from Westbury to Salisbury too
* Closure expected for an "extended period"

Cancellations to services between Westbury and Southampton Central

Due to the emergency services dealing with an incident between Westbury and Southampton Central all lines are blocked.

Train services running through these stations will be cancelled. Disruption is expected until the end of the day on 02/11/21.

Customer Advice

Owing to an incident in the Salisbury area the lines through Salisbury (Westbury - Salisbury - Southampton Central) are likely to be closed for an extended period.

## Road transport has been confirmed between Westbury to Salisbury & Salisbury to Southampton Central##

Customers intending to travel over this (or any portion of the route) are advised that journey times will be considerably extended. In the short term, in any event until robust arrangements are in place for alternative transport, customers are requested to consider deferring their journey or utilising other routes. Currently we are unable to guarantee that it would be possible to complete any given journey attempted along the affected corridor.

Ticket Acceptance via alternative routes from start of service Monday 1st November -

Southern Railway is accepting GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) tickets between Brighton and Southampton Central and also between Brighton and London Victoria.

South Western Railway is accepting GWR tickets between Romsey and Portsmouth Harbour.

London Underground is accepting GWR tickets between London Paddington, London Waterloo and London Victoria.

Further Information

An update will follow within the next 2 hours.

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.com/DelayRepay

Last Updated:01/11/2021 05:21

[grahame]

It would appear that at least some trains ARE running south of Westbury

08:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 11:46

08:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 11:46 will be started from Salisbury.
It will no longer call at Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth & Southsea, Fratton, Cosham, Fareham, Southampton Central and Romsey.

[grahame]

Although road transport is Southampton to Salisbury, GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) are running as far as Romsey

08:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Romsey due 09:22

An additional train service has been planned to operate as shown 08:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Romsey due 09:22.

[CyclingSid]

Today's silly idea.

Would it be possible to run services from Basingstoke to Southampton via Laverstoke Junction. Buses Westbury to Andover and Westbury to Romsey would be less of a drag for passengers?

[JayMac]

Today's silly idea.

Would it be possible to run services from Basingstoke to Southampton via Laverstoke Junction. Buses Westbury to Andover and Westbury to Romsey would be less of a drag for passengers?

There's reports that signalling infrastructure was damaged during last night's incident. That's likely to have affected Laverstock North to Laverstock South Junctions too.

[PhilWakely]

Today's silly idea.

Would it be possible to run services from Basingstoke to Southampton via Laverstoke Junction. Buses Westbury to Andover and Westbury to Romsey would be less of a drag for passengers?

There's reports that signalling infrastructure was damaged during last night's incident. That's likely to have affected Laverstock North to Laverstock South Junctions too.

SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) has culled the service west of Salisbury as well, which does suggest that signalling infrastructure has been significantly affected.

[ChrisB]

Gillingham - EXD^» (Exeter St Davids - next trains) inly on SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) west of Salisbury.

NR^» (Network Rail - home page) journeycheck said lines closed until Thursday night at least

[Bmblbzzz]

Do we have any idea how long the disruption is likely to last? Purely selfish question as I have to go to Bournemouth on Saturday, and not intended to imply my inability to travel is more important than any other results of the crash.

[JayMac]

Do we have any idea how long the disruption is likely to last? Purely selfish question as I have to go to Bournemouth on Saturday, and not intended to imply my inability to travel is more important than any other results of the crash.

It's still a fluid situation. The RAIB^▸ (Rail Accident Investigation Branch) and BTP^▸ (British Transport Police) have to finish their investigations, which won't be rushed. Then they'll hand the line back to Network Rail. With a tunnel involved it won't be a straightforward recovery of the damaged rolling stock. Then there are the repairs to the permanent way and signalling to carry out, followed by testing.

Friday is the cautious prediction but I think Network Rail will be going some to have the line reopened by Saturday.

[bobm]

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) Journeycheck now saying disruption until the end of Monday the 8th.

[JayMac]

Things appear to be running smoothly for both GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) and SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) services at Salisbury. Plenty of staff around to assist with information for the truncated rail services and the rail replacement coaches.

I've just travelled Southampton - Basingstoke - Andover - (coach) - Salisbury. No problems. Now on my last train, Salisbury - Templecombe.

[Timmer]

Paul Clifton (BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) South Today Transport Correspondent) reporting on Twitter that Network Rail are saying removing the trains will take at least another four days with the line not opening before the 15th of November.

[Oxonhutch]

I suspect, also, they have now discovered the true extent of the damage to the underlying permanent way including the switches and crossings of Tunnel Junction, and associated signalling.

[stuving]

Paul Clifton (BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) South Today Transport Correspondent) reporting on Twitter that Network Rail are saying removing the trains will take at least another four days with the line not opening before the 15th of November.

The one train still on its wheels, the front half of 1F30, was seen on tonight's BBC news going through (I think) Salisbury station. I didn't register whether it was being dragged or moving itself, but I imagine the former just because that's how things are done.

[Timmer]

The one train still on its wheels, the front half of 1F30, was seen on tonight's BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) news going through (I think) Salisbury station. I didn't register whether it was being dragged or moving itself, but I imagine the former just because that's how things are done.

Yes, I saw that on South Today yesterday evening and it looked like it was under it's own steam. I guess it would have been thoroughly inspected after being detached to see if it was fit to return back to St Philip's Marsh by itself.