2022 - TransWilts cancellations and amendments log

[whole diary]

[grahame]

14:16 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:58

15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to a points failure.

[eightonedee]

If it's any indication of anything - today the 2022 thread on this subject has exceeded the number of pages used for 2021.

New Year's resolution for GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) - reverse that trend.

[grahame]

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Dilton Marsh, Warminster and Salisbury.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[grahame]

Cancellations to services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham

Due to a train hitting an obstruction on the line between Trowbridge and Chippenham the line is blocked. Disruption is expected until 08:15 22/12.

Train services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham may be cancelled, delayed or revised.

07:37 Westbury to Swindon due 08:19

07:37 Westbury to Swindon due 08:19 will be cancelled.
This is due to a supermarket trolley on the track.

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07 will be starting late from Swindon.
This is due to a supermarket trolley on the track.

06:35 Salisbury to Cheltenham Spa due 09:03

06:35 Salisbury to Cheltenham Spa due 09:03 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Salisbury and Warminster.
It will be delayed at Westbury.
This is due to a supermarket trolley on the track.

[grahame]

05:17 Westbury to Swindon due 05:59

05:17 Westbury to Swindon due 05:59 has been delayed at Melksham and is now 141 minutes late.
This is due to a supermarket trolley on the track.

[grahame]

Summary from earlier today:



It seems the 05:17 from Westbury arrived at Melksham on time at 05:33 and left 140 minutes late ...

And later today, JourneyCheck forecasts

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 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 shortage of train crew

20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:05

20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:05 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[grahame]

05:17 Westbury to Swindon due 05:59

05:17 Westbury to Swindon due 05:59 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07 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.

[grahame]

Christmas Eve - services typically end a little early, but this evening they end earlier than ususal even for Christmas Eve. Cancelled today (?) 24.12.2022 - (in the passenger's view) the following services:
16:36 and 18:35 from Westbury to Swindon
17:35, 19:35 and 21:07 Swindon to Westbury

Thanks to Chris Rea, for his words on finishing work at 5 p.m. today.  No trains, so

I'm driving home for Christmas
Oh, I can't wait to see those faces
I'm driving home for Christmas, yea
Well I'm moving down that line
And it's been so long
But I will be there
I sing this song
To pass the time away
Driving in my car
Driving home for Christmas

and

I take a look at the driver next to me
He's just the same
He's driving home, driving home
Driving home for Christmas

which is an excellent argument for a working mass transit system at this time of year when lots of people are moving around

[TaplowGreen]

Here are some more lyrics from Bruvver Lynch, which perhaps haven't aged quite so well, but are also pertinent in the context........


“There is no good time to have a strike. We have left the Christmas period strike-free deliberately”

[grahame]

14:05 Westbury to Swindon:

This service was cancelled due to an issue with the train crew (TH).

[grahame]

First three trains, Westbury to Swindon, not running
First two trains Swindon to Westbury not running
So first train 09:46 from Westbury and 11:05 from Swindon.

For a bank a bank holiday, fair enough (and normal) for the first trip not to run, but the 07:35 from Westbury and the 08:44 from Swindon should be running.

18:34 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21
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.

[bobm]

For a bank a bank holiday, fair enough (and normal) for the first trip not to run, but the 07:35 from Westbury and the 08:44 from Swindon should be running.

Given the first train through Swindon on any route isn’t until 10:16 perhaps it is not surprising those pair didn’t run.

[grahame]

For a bank a bank holiday, fair enough (and normal) for the first trip not to run, but the 07:35 from Westbury and the 08:44 from Swindon should be running.

Given the first train through Swindon on any route isn’t until 10:16 perhaps it is not surprising those pair didn’t run.

Indeed. We can assign the failure to run the 05:17 and 07:05 from Westbury and the 06:11 from Swindon to it being a Bank Holiday.  But it remains a disappointment and a failure of provision by the rail industry (management, unions, DfT^» (Department for Transport - about)) to run the 07:35 and 08:44

Following up on another thread, first possible London arrivals from Swindon, then, about 11:30 - skuttles the day-at-the-sales opportunities because half the day will be gone by the time you get to Oxford Street!

[grahame]

NOT another TransWilts failure - rather, perhaps something which rather confirms that the rail industry would have been incapable of starting with the 07:35 as is the precedent for a bank holiday.   A number of other services like this:

09:18 London Paddington to Swansea due 12:31
09:18 London Paddington to Swansea due 12:31 will no longer call at Reading, Swindon, Patchway and Newport South Wales.

It has been delayed at London Paddington and is now 91 minutes late.
This is due to engineering works not being finished on time.

[ChrisB]

Here are some more lyrics from Bruvver Lynch, which perhaps haven't aged quite so well, but are also pertinent in the context........


“There is no good time to have a strike. We have left the Christmas period strike-free deliberately”

That's utter b*ll*cks. Overtime plus Rest Day working ban....