Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsewhere - 2025

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[NickB]

Still cancellations particularly for Didcot services.

[TaplowGreen]

Almost beyond belief.....again.

Cancellations to services between Reading and Slough

Due to a points failure between Reading and Slough some lines towards London Paddington are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled, delayed or revised. Twyford, Maidenhead and Slough will not be served. Disruption is expected until 15:00 20/03.

Customer Advice
Apologies to customers, Network Rail advise we have multiple points failures between Reading and Slough in at least 3 different locations. In addition the high speed line from Reading towards London is currently shut.

[TaplowGreen]

Almost beyond belief.....again.

Cancellations to services between Reading and Slough

Due to a points failure between Reading and Slough some lines towards London Paddington are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled, delayed or revised. Twyford, Maidenhead and Slough will not be served. Disruption is expected until 15:00 20/03.

Customer Advice
Apologies to customers, Network Rail advise we have multiple points failures between Reading and Slough in at least 3 different locations. In addition the high speed line from Reading towards London is currently shut.

And the advice from GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) is to use the Elizabeth Line.....which is suspended between Hayes & Reading 

[TaplowGreen]

......as if the multiple points failures weren't enough......

Cancellations to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to a safety inspection of the track between Reading and London Paddington trains have to run at reduced speed on the line towards London Paddington.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled or delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Customer Advice
We're sorry for the delay to your journey.

We will update this message with more information when we have it.

[TaplowGreen]

Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading

Following the emergency services dealing with an incident at Twyford some lines have now reopened
.
Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Train services between London Paddington and Reading will be cancelled or delayed.

[TaplowGreen]

Almost beyond belief.....again.

Cancellations to services between Reading and Slough

Due to a points failure between Reading and Slough some lines towards London Paddington are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled, delayed or revised. Twyford, Maidenhead and Slough will not be served. Disruption is expected until 15:00 20/03.

Customer Advice
Apologies to customers, Network Rail advise we have multiple points failures between Reading and Slough in at least 3 different locations. In addition the high speed line from Reading towards London is currently shut.

These were the "multiple points failures" on Thursday afternoon.

8178B - Southall East
8336 - Maidenhead East
8326 - Slough West
8296 - Dolphin Junction
8334 - Maidenhead East
8301 - Dolphin Junction
8335 - Maidenhead East
8027 - Royal Oak

Project Brunel anyone?

[TaplowGreen]

The Coffeeshop may have been away, but nothing much has changed......

Cancellations to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to a points failure between Reading and London Paddington some lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled, delayed or terminated at and started back from Reading. Some stations between Reading and London Paddington will not be served. Disruption is expected until 15:00 26/03.

[TaplowGreen]

Cancellations to services between Twyford and Maidenhead

Due to a points failure between Twyford and Maidenhead some lines are blocked.

Train services running through these stations may be cancelled or delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

[TaplowGreen]

Whilst it's never great to see the map covered in red lines, at least this weekend (as well as the inevitable staff shortage related cancellations), much of the disruption is due to engineering works, which I am told (amongst other activity) involves installing new rails between Reading and Paddington - hopefully this might help to relieve the virtually daily disruption and meltdowns which have been a feature of this route over the past couple of months?

[TaplowGreen]

Whilst it's never great to see the map covered in red lines, at least this weekend (as well as the inevitable staff shortage related cancellations), much of the disruption is due to engineering works, which I am told (amongst other activity) involves installing new rails between Reading and Paddington - hopefully this might help to relieve the virtually daily disruption and meltdowns which have been a feature of this route over the past couple of months?

......but then again.....following the installation of new track....

Cancellations to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to a speed restriction over defective track between Reading and London Paddington trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines.
Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled, delayed or revised.

Maidenhead, Twyford and Slough will not be served.

Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

[TaplowGreen]

Cancellations to services between Reading and Newbury

Due to a points failure between Reading and Reading West some lines are blocked. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Train services between Reading and Newbury may be cancelled.

Network Rail staff are working to fix the points. To do this they will have to close the line completely from 21:30 for around 90 minutes.

During this time, we will not be able to run any trains between Reading and Newbury, in either direction. We will have some replacement transport in place, but this will not run to train times. Your journey may take longer to complete.