2025 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury

[whole diary]

[bobm]

That has to be a first for Melksham?
A train terminating, then starting there!

A few years back there was a Sunday train from Westbury which was timetabled to terminate at Melksham and then return.  However in the end it was extended to Chippenham as it was reported you couldn't turn a train at Melksham as it "confused" the axle counters.   Perhaps that is no longer the case.

[grahame]

That has to be a first for Melksham?
A train terminating, then starting there!

A few years back there was a Sunday train from Westbury which was timetabled to terminate at Melksham and then return.  However in the end it was extended to Chippenham as it was reported you couldn't turn a train at Melksham as it "confused" the axle counters.   Perhaps that is no longer the case.

Not sure - there is "can't" and there is "CAN'T".

Trowbridge is a classic example - you can't turn a train arriving from the north there but yet it HAS been done when line to the south was blocked by an "incident".

[grahame]

14:47 Westbury to Swindon due 15:34
15:44 Swindon to Westbury due 16:25

15:44 Swindon to Westbury due 16:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

and now ...

14:47 Westbury to Swindon due 15:34

14:47 Westbury to Swindon due 15:34 will be starting late from Westbury and is expected to be 15 minutes late.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.

I guess that it was re-instated?  Not sure where the service disruption is - could it be the disruption caused by engineering works that mean the is bustitution from Westbury in the Frome direction?

I'v said it before but rather than a frightening will be cancelled from the earlier report which has a degree of finality about it, and suggests it's not even with checking back later, could we have a may be cancelled early caution system - rather like signals are not just red and green, but red, amber and green?

[bobm]

In the end it left on time,

[Chris from Nailsea]

I've said it before but rather than a frightening will be cancelled from the earlier report which has a degree of finality about it, and suggests it's not even worth checking back later, could we have a may be cancelled early caution system - rather like signals are not just red and green, but red, amber and green?

In the end it left on time

... which supports grahame's suggestion: how many potential passengers on that service were put off by that original report, and made (subsequently proving to be unnecessary) alternative travel arrangements, such as taking the car instead?