2023 - Train update and amendment log - Swindon <-> Westbury

[whole diary]

[grahame]

19:40 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:01
19:40 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:01 is being delayed between Yeovil Pen Mill and Castle Cary.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

Further Information

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[grahame]

22:12 Swindon to Westbury due 22:54

22:12 Swindon to Westbury due 22:54 will be starting late from Swindon.
This is due to the police dealing with an incident near the railway earlier today.

Trespassers on the track between Castle Cary and Frome.   The 19:40 ex Weymouth running almost 40 minutes late, with lots of returning passengers (around 50) to Melksham ... lots of folks know me so I have been busy explaining, apologising, and being offered smokes, drinks, and to join in their singsong (which would have caused a further delay if the train staff tried to find out what the horrid noise was). Most people 'resigned' to the problem - just one serious issue of. family gain for the last x31 from Chippenham Station.

[TaplowGreen]

20:38 Westbury to Swindon due 21:23
20:38 Westbury to Swindon due 21:23 has been cancelled.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.

21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:15
21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:15 will be cancelled.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.

[TaplowGreen]

05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07

05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07 will be cancelled.

This is due to a fault on this train.

[grahame]

06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47

06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will be terminated at Gloucester.
It will no longer call at Cheltenham Spa, Ashchurch For Tewkesbury, Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcester Foregate Street.
This is due to industrial action.

[bobm]

ADVANCE WARNING

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)'s strike day timetable for Saturday 3rd June shows two return trips on the TransWilts.  One in the morning and one in the late afternoon.

I have just heard from GWR that these services will now NOT run.

[grahame]

18:37 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21

18:37 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[grahame]

18:37 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21

18:37 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

and  now

18:37 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21
20:13 Swindon to Westbury due 20:58

20:13 Swindon to Westbury due 20:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[PhilWakely]

18:37 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21
20:13 Swindon to Westbury due 20:58

20:13 Swindon to Westbury due 20:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

I do not know who controls delay attribution on the automated announcements at stations. I was at Salisbury this afternoon where there were several delayed services - some significant, some not so. Every one was stated as 'This is due to industrial action', which I find hard to believe! One such delay on a Portsmouth to Cardiff was only a few minutes due to being held at Laverstock South Junction, yet it was still announced as 'due to industrial action'!

[bobm]

ADVANCE WARNING

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)'s strike day timetable for Saturday 3rd June shows two return trips on the TransWilts.  One in the morning and one in the late afternoon.

I have just heard from GWR that these services will now NOT run.

The four services involved have now been removed from journey planners overnight.

[grahame]

ADVANCE WARNING

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)'s strike day timetable for Saturday 3rd June shows two return trips on the TransWilts.  One in the morning and one in the late afternoon.

I have just heard from GWR that these services will now NOT run.

The four services involved have now been removed from journey planners overnight.

Thanks, Bob.   Last night, I updated the Melksham and West Wilts Facebook posts that detailed services on the line over the next few days and I will do a separate "no trains for the rest of the day today or tomorrow" post later in the day.

So ... for West Wilts today (2.6.2023) - six services from Westbury
* an hourly train until 6 p.m. between Westbury and Cardiff
* no trains from Westbury southward to Southampton
* no direct trains to Swindon (change at Bath; Melksham not served)
* no Weymouth trains
* nothing via Taunton
* nothing via Newbury (change at Bath for Reading and London)

... tomorrow - no trains

[TaplowGreen]

ADVANCE WARNING

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)'s strike day timetable for Saturday 3rd June shows two return trips on the TransWilts.  One in the morning and one in the late afternoon.

I have just heard from GWR that these services will now NOT run.

The four services involved have now been removed from journey planners overnight.

Thanks, Bob.   Last night, I updated the Melksham and West Wilts Facebook posts that detailed services on the line over the next few days and I will do a separate "no trains for the rest of the day today or tomorrow" post later in the day.

So ... for West Wilts today (2.6.2023) - six services from Westbury
* an hourly train until 6 p.m. between Westbury and Cardiff
* no trains from Westbury southward to Southampton
* no direct trains to Swindon (change at Bath; Melksham not served)
* no Weymouth trains
* nothing via Taunton
* nothing via Newbury (change at Bath for Reading and London)

... tomorrow - no trains

Looks like it may have changed again and there are Transwilts services today - albeit with an early finish?

[grahame]

Looks like it may have changed again and there are Transwilts services today - albeit with an early finish?

From what I can see, the Cardiff service has gone too ... just one train calling at Westbury today in each direction - an excursion from Slough to Kingswear and back (approaching Reading as I write). And according to Real Time Trains, an SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) service from Yeovil terminating there late in the evening.

[TaplowGreen]

Looks like it may have changed again and there are Transwilts services today - albeit with an early finish?

From what I can see, the Cardiff service has gone too ... just one train calling at Westbury today in each direction - an excursion from Slough to Kingswear and back (approaching Reading as I write). And according to Real Time Trains, an SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) service from Yeovil terminating there late in the evening.

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) Twitter saying one thing this morning - GWR Journey planner and National Rail saying another - hopeless.

[grahame]

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) Twitter saying one thing this morning - GWR Journey planner and National Rail saying another - hopeless.

Depressing - the elements of the rail industry seem to be conspiring with (or is that against?) each other to fail to provide a useable service for their customers.  Not good for any of their reputations, long term business or continued employment.