2022 - TransWilts cancellations and amendments log

[whole diary]

[TaplowGreen]

19:35 Swindon to Westbury due 20:16
19:35 Swindon to Westbury due 20:16 will be cancelled.

This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[grahame]

19:35 Swindon to Westbury due 20:16
19:35 Swindon to Westbury due 20:16 will be cancelled.

This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Yeah ... we have folks at the Melksham Christmas Lights concerned about how they will get home.

[TaplowGreen]

20:24 Westbury to Swindon due 21:06
20:24 Westbury to Swindon due 21:06 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

21:27 Swindon to Westbury due 22:08
21:27 Swindon to Westbury due 22:08 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[grahame]

09:46 Westbury to Swindon due 10:34

09:46 Westbury to Swindon due 10:34 is being delayed at Westbury.
This is due to a points failure.

11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47

11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be starting late from Swindon.
This is due to a points failure.

[grahame]

40 minutes late toward Swindon, 6 minutes late on the way back. 158747; nice.

[grahame]

05:17 Westbury to Swindon due 05:59

05:17 Westbury to Swindon due 05:59 will be terminated at Chippenham.
It will no longer call at Swindon.
This is due to a fault on this train.

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07 will be started from Chippenham.
It will no longer call at Swindon.
This is due to a fault on this train.

[grahame]

We have various report of cancellations and short runs on 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th "upthread" - looks like yesterday (7th) was clear.  Here we go again today; this one is a short working at one of the extremes, and out of Wiltshire, but it's still early in the day ...

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07 was terminated at Salisbury.
It will no longer call at Romsey and Southampton Central.
This is due to a fault on this train.

Four of us local long-standing supporters met yesterday to talk campaigning for our (Melksham) train service, and all four of us admitted to commonly making use of other transport because of the utter unreliability and poverty of the service on an ongoing basis.

[grahame]

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07

06:11 Swindon to Southampton Central due 08:07 was terminated at Warminster.
It will no longer call at Salisbury, Romsey and Southampton Central.
This is due to a points failure.

And as I write (07:35) the 07:20 at Melksham I showing "delayed" which is ... less than a helpful report for passengers waiting for it.

[grahame]

And as I write (07:35) the 07:20 at Melksham I showing "delayed" which is ... less than a helpful report for passengers waiting for it.

And here's a surprise ... updated at 08:07

06:35 Salisbury to Cheltenham Spa due 09:03

06:35 Salisbury to Cheltenham Spa due 09:03 has been cancelled.
This is due to a points failure.

[TaplowGreen]

09:14 Swindon to Westbury due 09:56
09:14 Swindon to Westbury due 09:56 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault on this train.

[grahame]

08:11 Warminster to Swindon due 09:03

08:11 Warminster to Swindon due 09:03 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Trowbridge, Melksham, Chippenham and Swindon.
This is due to a fault on this train.

[Phil]

Four of us local long-standing supporters met yesterday to talk campaigning for our (Melksham) train service, and all four of us admitted to commonly making use of other transport because of the utter unreliability and poverty of the service on an ongoing basis.

I wasn't there, but you can add a fifth long-standing supporter who is not only commonly but regularly making use of other transport on an ongoing basis. It's truly heartbreaking what they're doing to what used to be a reliable, if somewhat ill-timed, service.

[grahame]

Four of us local long-standing supporters met yesterday to talk campaigning for our (Melksham) train service, and all four of us admitted to commonly making use of other transport because of the utter unreliability and poverty of the service on an ongoing basis.

I wasn't there, but you can add a fifth long-standing supporter who is not only commonly but regularly making use of other transport on an ongoing basis. It's truly heartbreaking what they're doing to what used to be a reliable, if somewhat ill-timed, service.

And saga carries on - two cancellations so far this morning (already reported) and now this - much less major, but never the less killing the use through unreliability. 

11:01 Weymouth to Swindon due 13:28

11:01 Weymouth to Swindon due 13:28 has been delayed at Dorchester West and is now 21 minutes late.
This is due to a points failure.

There have be more posts in this thread than days so far this year - and I / we do NOT log good days.  What a terrible record for a service that's already so thin it's only just useable.

[bobm]

18:24 Frome to Swindon due 19:17
18:24 Frome to Swindon due 19:17 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

19:29 Swindon to Westbury due 20:11
19:29 Swindon to Westbury due 20:11 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

20:24 Westbury to Swindon due 21:06
20:24 Westbury to Swindon due 21:06 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

21:29 Swindon to Westbury due 22:08
21:29 Swindon to Westbury due 22:08 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[Trowres]

The 09:46 from Westbury to Swindon was cancelled today, along with its return working, the 11:05 from Swindon.

The reason given on RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website) was late arrival of crew from an inbound service.

( Journeycheck, oddly, gave the reason as a shortage of station staff  )