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

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[TaplowGreen]

Sun, 1 December 08:10 Warminster to Swindon due 09:02
Sun, 1 December 09:12 Swindon to Westbury due 09:53
Sun, 1 December 10:46 Westbury to Swindon due 11:34
Sun, 1 December 11:44 Swindon to Westbury due 12:26
Sun, 1 December 14:22 Frome to Swindon due 15:33
Sun, 1 December 15:44 Swindon to Frome due 16:38
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Further Information

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Last Updated:30/11/2024 20:01

Sun, 1 December 13:42 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:57

01/12/24 13:42 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:57 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Yeovil Pen Mill, Thornford, Yetminster, Chetnole, Maiden Newton, Dorchester West, Upwey and Weymouth.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

20:38 Westbury to Swindon due 21:23
20:38 Westbury to Swindon due 21:23 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:16
21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:16 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[grahame]

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 has been delayed at Gloucester and is now 15 minutes late.
This is due to train crew being delayed.

[grahame]

05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07

05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07 will no longer call at Dilton Marsh.
This is due to urgent repairs to the railway.

[grahame]

06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 was 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 a fault with the signalling system.

[grahame]

22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12

22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a passenger being taken ill on this train.
Further Information

Last Updated:03/12/2024 21:45

And this is the sort of situation in which it can be perfectly reasonable and indeed right to cancel a train.

[bobm]

It is interesting Realtimetrains puts the cause down as "disorder".

[grahame]

It is interesting Realtimetrains puts the cause down as "disorder".

Hmmm ... hard to know and rare enough to wish appreciate it's just one of those rare things where passengers need sorting out at the detriment of the train running.  Be they unwell because of a regular illness, or because they've been assaulted by someone else or from the effects of imbibing too much of something.

[TaplowGreen]

22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12

22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a passenger being taken ill on this train.
Further Information

Last Updated:03/12/2024 21:45

And this is the sort of situation in which it can be perfectly reasonable and indeed right to cancel a train.

...........as long as contingency plans are robust enough to allow alternatives to be put in place rapidly to prevent other customers being stranded.

[grahame]

Update at 06:41

Delays to services between Bath Spa and Westbury
Following a safety inspection of the track between Bath Spa and Westbury some lines have now reopened.
Train services running through these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer Advice
Due to an earlier tree blocking the line at Bradford on Avon, the line has just re-opened.

07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:34

07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:34 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to a tree blocking the railway.

[grahame]

22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12

22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a passenger being taken ill on this train.
Further Information

Last Updated:03/12/2024 21:45

And this is the sort of situation in which it can be perfectly reasonable and indeed right to cancel a train.

...........as long as contingency plans are robust enough to allow alternatives to be put in place rapidly to prevent other customers being stranded.

TOTAL agreement.  With cancellations reduced to a sensible rate, people would be far more inclined to put themselves out to helpnget stranded passengers to their homes/destinations in the circumstances. Be that a member of staff staying on an extra hour, or a taxi driver taking a fare that took him out of area.  And contingencies could be "allowed" to be more expensive to the railway when called into use, because the number of time they're used should be so much lower.

[grahame]

20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:05

20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:05 will be terminated at Gloucester.
It will no longer call at Cheltenham Spa.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.

[grahame]

21:33 Westbury to Salisbury due 22:05 
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
 
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

[grahame]

Saturday - the new Sunday

14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25
19:44 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25
20:08 Westbury to Swindon due 20:54

21:10 Swindon to Westbury due 21:52 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

I know it's a bit breezy out there are I kinda expected "because of severe weather" as it is on the huge number of cancellations on the Cornish branches.

[grahame]

350 cancellations across the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) area - understandable in the weather.

Cancellations to services between Par and Newquay
Cancellations to services between Exeter St Davids and Okehampton
Cancellations to services between Truro and Falmouth Docks
Cancellations to services between Cardiff Central and Carmarthen
Cancellations to services between Plymouth and Penzance
Cancellations to services between Exeter St Davids and Barnstaple
Cancellations to services between Plymouth and Gunnislake
Cancellations to services between Liskeard and Looe
Cancellations to services between St Erth and St Ives
Cancellations to services between Hereford and Worcester Foregate Street

Ironic that the Swindon to Westbury service is NOT listed ... our cancellation are staff shortages!  Of course there are plenty of drivers not driving and train managers not train managing in those other places ... but there's no way that in this complex world of specialisation that a cancelled service driver at Cardiff can hop over a couple of stops (Newport and Bristol Parkway) to Swindon and drive our train.

[TaplowGreen]

Cancellations to services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham

Due to severe weather at Westbury all lines are closed. Disruption is expected until 14:00 07/12.
Train services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham will be cancelled.

Customer Advice
The station roof at Westbury has incurred significant damage from Storm Darragh, and is not safe to keep Westbury station open; therefore WESTBURY STATION IS CLOSED!