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

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[bobm]

16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:08
17:36 Swindon to Westbury due 18:20

17:36 Swindon to Westbury due 18:20 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Additional information now posted.

Passengers from Swindon and Chippenham are advised to await the next service towards Bath Spa and then change there for services towards Trowbridge and Westbury.
Depart Swindon at 17:58, Chippenham at 18:08, arriving at Bath Spa at 18:21.
Change there for the 18:38 GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) service towards Portsmouth Harbour, arriving at Trowbridge at 18:56 and Westbury at 19:03.

Passengers For Melksham: please await and board the 17:58 GWR departure from Swindon for Bristol Temple Meads. Get off the train at Chippenham and change there for replacement taxis to Melksham.
Please check the stations Onward Travel Information poster and wait for the replacement road transport at the designated stop.

Passengers from Melksham: Replacement road transport has been arranged to run in lieu of part of this train service to Trowbridge and Westbury.

Please check the stations Onward Travel Information poster and wait for the replacement road transport at the designated stop. The replacement road transport may run later than the advertised train times owing to the additional time taken by road between stations and the time required for loading and unloading at each stop.

[grahame]

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will be starting late from Gloucester.
This is due to train crew being delayed.

[grahame]

13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57

13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57 has been delayed at Swindon and is now 15 minutes late.
This is due to a broken down train earlier today.

14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01

14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to a broken down train earlier today.

[grahame]

18:27 Frome to Swindon due 19:33
19:42 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25

19:42 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[bobm]

18:27 Frome to Swindon now re-instated

[grahame]

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 congestion.

[grahame]

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 congestion.

Not sure what that's about - looks like it left Swindon on time.  I have looked ahead to Melksham and note it will be the 15th train to pass through today - two tracks now please!

[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 Worcester Shrub Hill.
It will no longer call at Worcester Foregate Street.
This is due to a problem currently under investigation.

and

We've been advised that due to safety concerns over the structure of a stairwell, platform 1 at Worcester Foregate Street station has had to be closed. Trains to/from Great Malvern or Hereford are still able to run however, but not calling at Worcester Foregate Street.

Recorded here as a short-run of a train serving the Westbury to Swindon line, but in practise there are few passengers from South of Swindon who stay on the train beyond Worcester Shrub Hill!

[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.
It has been delayed at Stonehouse and is now 51 minutes late.
This is due to trespassers on the railway.

[grahame]

20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:05

20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:05 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to trespassers on the railway.

[grahame]

17:44 Swindon to Westbury due 18:25

17:44 Swindon to Westbury due 18:25 will be starting late from Swindon.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system.

[TaplowGreen]

17:44 Swindon to Salisbury due 18:55

17:44 Swindon to Salisbury due 18:55 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Warminster and Salisbury.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[grahame]

17:44 Swindon to Salisbury due 18:55

17:44 Swindon to Salisbury due 18:55 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Warminster and Salisbury.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Thank you ... and added ...

21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:15

21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:15 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

I have just posted in another thread about the 65 people on the 19:44 ex Swindon last night as ir left Chippenham ...

[Phil]

I took a trip deep into South Western Railway territory yesterday (Saturday). Sad, but sadder still perhaps that I was not surprised, to note that the ONLY problems I faced all day were with GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) services - short formed trains, cancelled services due to shortage of train crews, one service 40+ minutes overdue because of overcrowding [short formed again] & the following service cancelled altogether; it was a regular litany of apology. Then when I did finally get a train heading in the right homeward direction several hours after I'd planned, I had to walk the length of it before I could find a seat that actually offered a unrestricted view out of the window - again something I had no problem at all with on any of the services I travelled on down in Hampshire. It shouldn't be like this - people have a right to set out for a day trip on public transport and be reasonably confident that they can get home again.

[grahame]

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

Facilities on the 06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47.
Will be formed of 3 coaches instead of 5.

Odd one ... would not have ever expected it to be 5 carriages ... JourneyCheck glitch?    This one does "need" to be 3 carriages - busy into Swindon and rammed onwards from there to Stroud.   Qualified "good" if it's really 5 cars standard into the future, provided it works selective door at Melksham; single door no longer appropriate there for most trains due to station dwell time that would be required.