| Engineering works - shows what they CAN do! Posted by grahame at 10:30, 6th January 2025 |     |
Alteration: 10:46 from Filton Abbey Wood.
Alteration: 11:51 from Filton Abbey Wood.
11:51 Filton Abbey Wood to Bristol Temple Meads due 12:05 will be started from Bristol Parkway.
This is due to heavy rain flooding the railway.
Alteration: 11:51 from Filton Abbey Wood.
11:51 Filton Abbey Wood to Bristol Temple Meads due 12:05 will be started from Bristol Parkway.
This is due to heavy rain flooding the railway.
The stopper from Bristol Temple Meads via Lawrence Hill, Stapleton Road and Ashley Down peters out at Filton Abbey Wood - one stations short of the potential interchange with express services to Swansea, London, Birmingham and beyond. And yet - when push comes to shove, guess what - it can run up to that interchange at Bristol Parkway.
| Re: Engineering works - shows what they CAN do! Posted by Red Squirrel at 11:11, 6th January 2025 | |
To be fair, BPW is taking fewer trains than normal today. My son is en route to Cornwall this morning, and their Leeds - Plymouth train was (we assume) diverted via Severn Tunnel, skipping BPW.
| Re: Engineering works - shows what they CAN do! Posted by grahame at 11:28, 6th January 2025 | |
To be fair, BPW is taking fewer trains than normal today. My son is en route to Cornwall this morning, and their Leeds - Plymouth train was (we assume) diverted via Severn Tunnel, skipping BPW.
Indeed - though it's not the first time we have noted these trains reversing at Bristol Parkway, is it?
| Re: Engineering works - shows what they CAN do! Posted by WelshBluebird at 16:12, 8th January 2025 | |
Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding wasn't that they couldn't. More that they didn't want to given it may give people the wrong idea since these services will form the Henbury services in time meaning they couldn't simply be extended to Parkway from Filton like now. Basically giving a worse service now to avoid the obvious negative reaction when they'd have to cut it from Parkway again in the future.
| Re: Engineering works - shows what they CAN do! Posted by IndustryInsider at 16:30, 8th January 2025 | |
Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding wasn't that they couldn't. More that they didn't want to given it may give people the wrong idea since these services will form the Henbury services in time meaning they couldn't simply be extended to Parkway from Filton like now. Basically giving a worse service now to avoid the obvious negative reaction when they'd have to cut it from Parkway again in the future.
I think there'a a bit of truth in both arguments. There's no doubt Parkway struggles at times even with its four platforms and two goods loops, as so much has to get routed through the flat junction immediately west of the station. You don't want to make that worse, especially if those trains are starting/terminating there and taking up valuable platform space whilst they do.
