2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury

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[brooklea]

11:18 Weymouth to Chippenham due 13:46

11:18 Weymouth to Chippenham due 13:46 will be cancelled.

This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Looking just now on RealTimeTrains, this train is now showing as starting from Westbury at 13:09. I grant that the source is unofficial, but someone somewhere on the railway must have input the information that feeds RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website), seemingly at 09:13 this morning.
RTT also shows the line:

This service was cancelled between Weymouth and Westbury due to an issue with the train crew (TG).

Not a good way to encourage custom if the official sources of information aren’t kept up-to-date, but it seems likely this train will run between Westbury and Chippenham, and therefore the return at 13:57 from Chippenham to Weymouth also likely to run.

[grahame]

Not a good way to encourage custom if the official sources of information aren’t kept up-to-date, but it seems likely this train will run between Westbury and Chippenham, and therefore the return at 13:57 from Chippenham to Weymouth also likely to run.

Thank you ... let's see.    But yet whilst it's normally "three cheers" for a train, for a train that's cancelled or flagged as such, confused in reporting sources, but then runs it's just one cheer.  Better than no cheers at all, I suppose.

The conflict of information from multiple official sources is a wider topic.   Try Melksham to Taunton on the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) booking engine, and Melksham to Taunton on the A to Z at the station and marvel at the wild inconsistency even on days not affected by engineering works or staff shortages or trains that need repair.

[bobm]

Try Melksham to Taunton on the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) booking engine, and Melksham to Taunton on the A to Z at the station and marvel at the wild inconsistency even on days not affected by engineering works or staff shortages or trains that need repair.

Go-op will solve all that.   

[grahame]

Try Melksham to Taunton on the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) booking engine, and Melksham to Taunton on the A to Z at the station and marvel at the wild inconsistency even on days not affected by engineering works or staff shortages or trains that need repair.

Go-op will solve all that.   

I remain to be convinced.  Done right and with everyone pulling in the same direction, it could be wonderful for  all parties but there's one H*** of a risk of it not being done right, of people failing to co-operate for the mutual good, of obstancles being placed in the way, of forecasts being overoptimistic, of advantage being taken of a new player for a more established player to give up / deprioritise, etc.

Perhaps someone can tell us what the Community Rail [Partneship] view is ...

[Mark A]

Agreed as the issue with Melksham is surely not the number of services, it's the woefully inappropriate infrastructure provision. Without the infrastructure, pushing more services onto that single line (and through that three platform junction station) will actually make things worse not better.

Mark

[grahame]

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

18/11/24 06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Salisbury and Warminster.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[TaplowGreen]

18:37 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21
18:37 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time



20:14 Swindon to Westbury due 20:58
20:14 Swindon to Westbury due 20:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.

21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.

22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.

[GBM]

Cancellations to services between Westbury and Pewsey
Due to a points failure between Westbury and Pewsey the line towards Reading is closed.
Train services running through these stations will be cancelled. Disruption is expected until 08:00 20/11.

1A70 0454 Plymouth to London Paddington diverting via Melksham.
Possibly also 05:33 Plymouth to London Paddington due 09:21
05:33 Plymouth to London Paddington due 09:21 will be diverted between Westbury and Reading.
It will no longer call at Pewsey, Bedwyn, Hungerford and Newbury.
It will be delayed due to the diversion and is expected to be 4 minutes late.
This is due to a points failure.
Anticipate disruption to your local service!

[TaplowGreen]

09:46 Westbury to Swindon due 10:29
09:46 Westbury to Swindon due 10:29 will be cancelled.
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 cancelled.
This is due to a points failure.

[grahame]

Cancellations to services between Westbury and Pewsey

Anticipate disruption to your local service!

Sure enough ... sacrificed again by the looks of things

09:46 Westbury to Swindon due 10:29
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47

11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be cancelled.
This is due to a points failure.
Last Updated:20/11/2024 07:29

If cancellations were only occasional, the passengers would be more forgiving.

[GBM]

Now extended to 1000hrs.
Cancellations to services between Westbury and Pewsey
Due to a points failure between Westbury and Pewsey the line towards Reading is closed.
Train services running through these stations will be cancelled, delayed by up to 15 minutes or diverted between Westbury and Reading. Pewsey, Hungerford, Bedwyn and Newbury will not be served. Disruption is expected until 10:00 20/11.

[grahame]

Now extended to 1000hrs.
Cancellations to services between Westbury and Pewsey
Due to a points failure between Westbury and Pewsey the line towards Reading is closed.
Train services running through these stations will be cancelled, delayed by up to 15 minutes or diverted between Westbury and Reading. Pewsey, Hungerford, Bedwyn and Newbury will not be served. Disruption is expected until 10:00 20/11.

No - disruption is expected until 11:47 ...

11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be cancelled.

... and even then passengers who would have been on that train won't be there.

Those nice people at GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) / online ticket purchase are offering you a journey from Swindon at 11:22, changing at Bath Spa, getting to Westbury at 12:28.    And they're asking you to pay £18.90 for your ticket on that service, versus the normal price of £9.40 of the direct train they have cancelled within the last hour.

[bobm]

Points were fixed around 09:30.

The 08:45 from Swindon arrived at Westbury around 10:00.   

[grahame]

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

06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will be reinstated.
It will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Salisbury and Warminster.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[TaplowGreen]

05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07 is being delayed at Swindon.
This is due to engineering works not being finished on time.