Snow/Wintry conditions

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[Mookiemoo]

well im in london

At the moment am rebooked onto a virgin flight on wednesday!!!!!!!

think I may pass you over the north atlantic - lets hope we both manage to get in the air

[Jez]

I see a lot, if not all, the xx55 services from Cardiff-Paddington have been cancelled. I guess this makes sense if the lots of the xx25 services are delayed due to disruption between Swansea-Cardiff too.

Said on ATW^▸ (Arriva Trains Wales (former TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company))) facebook page that Valley Lines and Cardiff local routes are suspended until further notice. Not sure if they have restarted now, but there cant be too many trains in Cardiff today.

[devon_metro]

Believe it or not... Weston super mud seafront...

[anthony215]

I see a lot, if not all, the xx55 services from Cardiff-Paddington have been cancelled. I guess this makes sense if the lots of the xx25 services are delayed due to disruption between Swansea-Cardiff too.

Said on ATW^▸ (Arriva Trains Wales (former TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company))) facebook page that Valley Lines and Cardiff local routes are suspended until further notice. Not sure if they have restarted now, but there cant be too many trains in Cardiff today.

There was disruption on the line between Cardiff Central & Queen street. I think there was a shuttle on the coryton line between Coryton & Heath Low Level

[JayMac]

Surprised it hasn't happened sooner, but there are now problems on the Severn Beach Line.

[Jez]

For passengers in South Wales, looks like the following have been cancelled tomorrow (info from ATW^▸ (Arriva Trains Wales (former TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company))) facebook page)
 

Depart   From         To          Arrive

04.25    Holyhead   Cardiff   09.18

05.32    Holyhead   Cardiff   09.58

06.29    Holyhead   Cardiff   11.14

07.50    Holyhead   Cardiff   12.24

08.05    Holyhead   Cardiff   13.17

10.33    Holyhead   Cardiff   15.18

14.32    Holyhead   Cardiff   19.18

16.36    Holyhead   Cardiff   21.14

 

05.10    Cardiff       Holyhead 10.01

07.20    Cardiff       Holyhead  12.09

09.20    Cardiff       Holyhead  14.11

11.20    Cardiff       Holyhead  16.11

13.20    Cardiff       Holyhead  18.16

15.20    Cardiff       Holyhead  20.13

16.15    Cardiff       Holyhead  20.44

17.20    Cardiff       Holyhead  22.19

18.17    Cardiff       Holyhead  22.35

19.34    Cardiff       Holyhead  00.52

 

11.10    Swansea     Cardiff     12.16

15.10    Swansea     Cardiff     16.13

17.10    Swansea     Cardiff     18.18

 

09.14   Cardiff         Swansea  10.17

11.14   Cardiff         Swansea  12.17

13.14   Cardiff         Swansea  14.17

15.14   Cardiff         Swansea  16.17

[Jez]

Its now only saying the Swansea-Cardiff's are cancelled not the Holyheads! Also an amended service on Valley Lines. Prob best just to check what is running in the morning!

[JayMac]

Not much fun on the buses today either.

First Bus in Bristol, Bath and the West have suspended all services in Weston-super-Mare, Yeovil, Bridgwater and Taunton. There is disruption and cancellations in Bristol and Bath. First Bus' Customer Service centre has closed early at 1600.

First Bus in Devon and Cornwall are also experiencing problems with some cancellations.

Stagecoach in Devon are running limited services but may suspend all services if conditions deteriorate.

[Super Guard]

An insane amount of snow fell in Exeter this morning between 0430 & 0900.  Only the first train of the day made it to Barnstaple (arriving back in Exeter over 2hours late) due to frozen points at Crediton before 1030.  Apparently you couldn't actually see the rail head at all, and snow was drifting too.  Staff & passengers had to be dug out of the car parks at EXD^» (Exeter St Davids - next trains) too.

[thetrout]

Dare I attempt the 01:15 to Bath Spa - Cardiff Central Tomorrow Morning?? Need to be at Cardiff Airport for 5AM...!

Despite in the process of recovering from Glandular Fever, I have been persuaded with some brute force and ignorance to go on Holiday this Christmas, in return I will receive a nice shiny new piece of equipment...

Shame FGW^▸ (First Great Western) don't offer complimentary Mince Pies in First Class... XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) Do

[dog box]

FGW^▸ (First Great Western) do offer mince pies on first class trolley.....unless i am going mad because there were some circular pastry things in tin foil cases on the trolley today

[Lee]

-8.5 in Melksham at 18:45 yesterday evening as I did a pickup run to the station; train virtually on time.  My biggest decision was whether to risk driving down the station approach and risk getting stuck there ...

No such decision required tonight:

16:49 Great Malvern to Southampton Central due 20:48

This train has been cancelled.This is due to poor weather conditions.

Given my upcoming travel plans, I do hope that's a one-off...

[JayMac]

FGW^▸ (First Great Western) do offer mince pies on first class trolley.....unless i am going mad because there were some circular pastry things in tin foil cases on the trolley today

And you didn't snaffle one?! 

[adc82140]

Journeys from Maidenhead today were not good. If there had been a departure board (!) it would have been a sea of delays and cancellations. However the 07:41 ex Bourne End was bang on time. A bit of a pity that a late running stopper hampered our progress at West Drayton. I wonder why the signalmen doggedly keep this train on the slow lines, even when there's not a great deal happening on the fasts?

This evening was potentially a disaster- all the Maidenhead fasts had either been cancelled or severely delayed. I decided to go via Reading (ticket not valid to do so, but who's going to check under the circumstances?), and actually managed to get home only 10 minutes late. Not bad.

[IndustryInsider]

A more restricted and detailed service plan has been released for tomorrow.  Today would have probably been the same had their been enough time to plan a detailed one, but the run-nearly-everything-late approach held up pretty well to be honest.

Tomorrow sees a thinning out of the service between Reading and Paddington, with the off-peak Cardiff to London trains cancelled (as today), the Bedwyn-Paddington services only running as far as Reading, and a significant reduction in the Oxford to Paddington fast services with at least one of the two trains an hour being cancelled.  Perhaps the only area that I think they might have gone a bit too far with as it means pretty much the only trains running are those coming through from the Cotswold Line.  So, for example, that's only five trains between 9am and 5pm - perhaps some more of the xx:31 departures should have been spared to give an hourly service?

There's also the usual precautions on the Marlow and Henley lines with through trains from/to London removed.  Also, two late evening Cotswold Line services will run 'if the weather doesn't improve' which I read to mean 'If the engineering possession can't be taken'!

Details here: http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=5012