2022 Delays & Cancellations

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[Worcester_Passenger]

And today, Sunday November 6, it's a lack of train crew that is causing the problems:

13:46 Paddington - Hereford (16:59) - terminated at Shrub Hill
15:46 Paddington - Hereford (18:59) - cancelled throughout
18:46 Paddington - Hereford (21:55) - terminated at Shrub Hill

17:30 Hereford - Paddington (20:28) - started from Shrub Hill

[Richard Fairhurst]

Not a good evening.

The 1734 Paddington–Hereford appears to have sat down and wept on the Didcot avoiding line, where it's been stuck for 50 minutes and counting: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:W43883/2022-11-23/detailed#allox_id=0

The 1757 Paddington–Foregate has been sent through Didcot station to avoid it, but is itself running 45 minutes late, most of it picked up in the Paddington–Reading disruption: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:W43897/2022-11-23/detailed#allox_id=0

[Worcester_Passenger]

And today:

06:43 Shrub Hill - Paddington cancelled throughout
08:56 Great Malvern - Paddington started from Foregate Street
09:54 Great Malvern - Paddington held for single line at Charlbury, 26 late at Paddington
13:18 Hereford - Paddington started from Foregate Street, 16 late at Paddington
15:16 Foregate Street - Paddington started from Shrub Hill 23 late, 28 late at Paddington
16:31 Great Malvern - Paddington started from Foregate Street
17:30 Foregate Street - Paddington delayed at Oxford, 30 late at Paddington
17:58 Foregate Street - Paddington cancelled throughout
19:05 Great Malvern - Paddington held for single line at Charlbury, 28 late at Paddington
19:45 Great Malvern - Paddington 24 late at Paddington
21:00 Foregate Street - Paddington cancelled throughout
22:00 Hereford - Paddington started 21 late, will be terminated at Reading

05:50 Paddington - Great Malvern terminated at Foregate Street 42 late
09:50 Paddington - Hereford terminated at Foregate Street 26 late
11:50 Paddington - Hereford 32 late
12:50 Paddington - Foregate Street terminated at Shrub Hill 42 late
13:50 Paddington - Great Malvern terminated at Foregate Street 21 late
15:20 Paddington - Foregate Street cancelled throughout
17:34 Paddington - Hereford 24 late
17:57 Paddington - Foregate Street terminated at Oxford 29 late
19:50 Paddington - Hereford terminated at Great Malvern 51 late
20:50 Paddington - Great Malvern terminated at Foregate Street 29 late
22:50 Paddington - Worcestershire Parkway started from Reading

[grahame]

And today:

06:43 Shrub Hill - Paddington cancelled throughout ....

A long and sad record of delays, cancellations and short runs.  That's 12 up trains and 11 down trains listed.  To put this into context, your report is on just over half the services scheduled - I have just looked it up and there are 21 passenger departures scheduled from Oxford headed out to and via Moreton-in-Marsh. 

[Worcester_Passenger]

And ... I didn't bother with anything under about 15 minutes.  And we have several services which have long dwell times for various bits of the single track, which allowed recovery yesterday.

Today:

05:50 Paddington - Great Malvern : cancelled throughout - an "issue with the train crew" according to Realtime Trains

08:56 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 11:24
08:56 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 11:24 will be cancelled.
This is due to train crew being delayed.

[Worcester_Passenger]

And the consequence was

09:54 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 12:24
09:54 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 12:24 will no longer call at Slough.
This is due to overcrowding.
Service full and standing from Hanborough.

[Witham Bobby]

It can only be described as a shambles.  Not an effective service at all.  We're back to the level of reliability of the trains that was experienced before the re-doubling works in 2011

[TonyN]

So Far today 15th December.

08:13 WOS^» (Worcester Shrub Hill - next trains)-PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains) Cancelled
08:56 GMV-PAD Cancelled
09:54 GMV-PAD Disapeared from the timetable overnight

So no up trains until the 10:59 GMV-PAD if it runs.

[ChrisB]

Several points failures around Oxford I understand

[charles_uk]

So no up trains until the 10:59 GMV-PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains) if it runs.

It did run departing Great Malvern 20 minutes late and Oxford 27 late.

[Witham Bobby]

17:03 Didcot Parkway to Moreton-In-Marsh due 18:09 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.

The unparliamentary train for the halts

[IndustryInsider]

Now reinstated.  Not that you’d know though as it’s still cancelled according to Journeycheck!