AQ15 - Shredded timetables

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[grahame]

Some old (National Rail) timetables of mine - from perhaps 2 to 6 years old - fell into my virtual shredder.  Can you help me put them back together again? Can you identify the lines they apply to?  Any clues as to whether they were before or after any changes made on that line?

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[Oxonhutch]

5: Looks like Marlow via Bourne End to Maidenhead with two sets in the morning peak, and then just one thereafter.

[brooklea]

3. is Portsmouth and Brighton to Warminster (and Dilton Marsh), pre-dating the May 2022 removal of the through GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) Brighton to Bristol/Great Malvern services (and also the end of on-board catering, which I learn from this Forum was from April 1st 2022).

[Kempis]

6. Is that the Severn Beach line?

[grahame]

6. Is that the Severn Beach line?

Yes ... though it has changed a bit since then.

3. is Portsmouth and Brighton to Warminster (and Dilton Marsh), pre-dating the May 2022 removal of the through GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) Brighton to Bristol/Great Malvern services (and also the end of on-board catering, which I learn from this Forum was from April 1st 2022).

Yes

5: Looks like Marlow via Bourne End to Maidenhead with two sets in the morning peak, and then just one thereafter.

Indeed - always struck me as an odd way to run a railway.  I'm guessing space is so tight (or someone is so cheap / was expecting Marlow to close too) that they came up with that track layout

[Oxonhutch]

Indeed - always struck me as an odd way to run a railway.  I'm guessing space is so tight (or someone is so cheap / was expecting Marlow to close too) that they came up with that track layout

The net effect is to allow Bourne End to act as a passing place that the line otherwise doesn't have and in doing so, doubles the line's capacity during the peaks.

Geoff Marshall covers this well in his YouTube episode with Mark Hopwood.

[grahame]

Indeed - always struck me as an odd way to run a railway.  I'm guessing space is so tight (or someone is so cheap / was expecting Marlow to close too) that they came up with that track layout

The net effect is to allow Bourne End to act as a passing place that the line otherwise doesn't have and in doing so, doubles the line's capacity during the peaks.

Agreed and understood - I just wonder if an extra point 2 carriage lengths from the stops of platform 2, crossing the line from Maidenhead into platform 1 and joining the Marlow line might work.   Through carriages, train passing still works though limited to 2 carriages.  Would 2 carriages be enough and not overcrowd into Maidenhead?

[ray951]

I thought this was going to be a quiz about current GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) Sunday timetables

[grahame]

Ah ... I suspect I'm more of a timetable geek than most members - that was either a boring/uninteresting or hard quiz, notable by the lack of follow ups.

Here's the full set of answers ...

0. Saltburn to Bishop Aulkand / Middlesbrough to Newcastle
1. Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin
2. Brighton / West Coast Seaway via Worthing
3. Brighton to Dilton Marsh - brooklea
4. Aylesbury Vale Parkway to London Marylebone
5. Marlow to Maidenhead - Oxenhutch
6. Bristol Temple Meads to Savern Beach - Kempis
7. Cardiff to Penarth, Barry Island, and Bridgend
8. London (Liverpool Street) to Southminster and Southend
9. Merseyrail to Southport

For today, Monday 16th, I am taking a 1 day break from quiz setting.  It has been a busy weekend and continues updating timetable links in local group websites - I have just emailed (at her request) a status update on 'things Melksham' to another local contact of issues ... only one out of the six being rail reliability and "kicking arse" if necessary, and if I can, is more important long term than a day's missed quiz!