Almost non-existent service!

[whole diary]

[grahame]

17:00 Brighton to Worcester Shrub Hill due 22:12

This train will be terminated at Hove.It will no longer call at: Shoreham-By-Sea, Worthing, Barnham, Chichester, Havant, Cosham, Fareham, Southampton Central, Romsey, Salisbury, Warminster, Dilton Marsh, Westbury, Trowbridge, Bradford-On-Avon, Avoncliff, Freshford, Bath Spa, Oldfield Park, Keynsham, Bristol Temple Meads, Filton Abbey Wood, Bristol Parkway, Yate, Cam & Dursley, Gloucester, Cheltenham Spa, Ashchurch For Tewkesbury and Worcester Shrub Hill.This is due to earlier signalling problems. Last Updated: 03/07/2009 17:14

[tramway]

Was that the signalling problem in the Trowbridge area at approx 0800 this morning I wonder?

[eightf48544]

Basically it means it ran one stop.

So where's the unit? Does that mean Worcester will be one short in the morning? Did it work back ECS^▸ (Empty Coaching Stock)?

[Phil]

This train will be terminated at Hove.It will no longer call at: Shoreham-By-Sea, Worthing, Barnham, Chichester, Havant, Cosham, Fareham, Southampton Central, Romsey, Salisbury, Warminster, Dilton Marsh, Westbury, Trowbridge, Bradford-On-Avon, Avoncliff, Freshford, Bath Spa, Oldfield Park, Keynsham, Bristol Temple Meads, Filton Abbey Wood, Bristol Parkway, Yate, Cam & Dursley, Gloucester, Cheltenham Spa, Ashchurch For Tewkesbury and Worcester Shrub Hill.This is due to earlier signalling problems. Last Updated: 03/07/2009 17:14

This doesn't sound right without the obligatory follow-up announcement: "Avon-cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeef is a request stop....."   

[Rogang]

This was such a farce. Control was told AFTER 1v94 had left Brighton that it might have over-run some points. FGW^▸ (First Great Western) Control had no option but to terminate the train at Hove and return to Brighton to have the wheels checked. Nothing wrong found, and it later ran ecs to Fratton. Great fun listing the 'no longer calling at' stops on this (if cancelled, it goes out as one short sentence!), which then got worse by adding on the 'an additional service will start at BTM^▸ (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI)) in train times to GMV calling at etc.etc!
With 1F32 18:22 ex PMH starting at Salisbury following the Bristol-Bath problems that afternoon, we lost two back to back services from Cosham-Southampton-Salisbury.

[grahame]

... which then got worse by adding on the 'an additional service will start at BTM^▸ (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI)) in train times to GMV calling at ....

Many thanks for getting back on that one ... I feel much better informed and therefore much better able to say "yes, I agree .... no real option" which is, I'm sure, usually the case.

I had scanned the list of service changes for an extra train, fully aware that such things are often run, but hadn't spotted one;  I suspect that I was too quick off the mark, yet news should be published while it is sill "news" before it becomes "olds".  So in the interest of balance and faireness, I owe an apology for any implications that might have been read into my original post that a service was cancelled for over 99% of its route when a special train added later on avoided that being the case.