Sun, 17 August 18:10 Castle Cary to Swindon due 19:34
Sun, 17 August 19:43 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25

17/08/25 19:43 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

  Nigel Ewens outlined a scheme for a narrow guage line from M Newton to W Bay via Gore Cross and the bus station. There was a 300m tunnel involved, and stations at Loders, Powerstock and Toller. He identified the problems of getting the project in, but was optimist about solutions. I saw no indications of predicted traffic/income flows, but he ran out of time sadly. There was some talk of importing 6 steam engines from retirement in Sri Lanka

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00 will be reinstated.
It will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Trowbridge, Melksham, Chippenham and Swindon.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

"Liked" that by accident, 'cos, sorry to see this. If either of you get the terrible sore throat, specifically Strepsils orange with vitamin 'C'. They're not an antiviral so, they shouldn't be expected to help with this, but there's science behind their effectiveness regarding the sore throat symptom.

Mark

Tens of passengers were stranded high on a Singapore railway track after their train suffered a power fault......

Day trip to Weymouth - we won't get you home ...

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Sat, 16 August 19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00

16/08/25 19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Trowbridge, Melksham, Chippenham and Swindon.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Tens of passengers were stranded high on a Singapore railway track after their train suffered a power fault.

Video shows a group of passengers high up on a bridge, queuing up in a single-line, as they were forced to walk along the tall track back to a station.

SBS Transit, the train's operator, said all passengers safely disembarked and power is progressively being restored.

At least one person has died and several others have been injured after a train collided with a slurry tanker and derailed in southern Denmark, officials said.

Police said the crash happened between the towns of Tinglev and Kliplev in southern Jutland, and that officers were at the site.

Local outlet TV2 reported helicopters had been sent to the scene and quoted local rail officials as saying the train had "hit a slurry tanker" at a level crossing.

The country's rail operator DSB said that it had shut down services between Tinglev and Sønderborg near the German border.



Pictures from the scene showed a carriage lying on its side, with passengers stood around the train tracks.

Police said 95 passengers were on board, including pupils from a school in Sønderborg. Two of the injured were carried away by helicopter.

The national rail agency Banedanmark wrote on X that the collision happened at a railway crossing. According to local media, at least two of the train carriages were derailed.

'Moor could take centuries to recover from fire'


Fire crews have been fighting a blaze on the North York Moors since Monday evening

An area of moorland in North Yorkshire could take "many decades, centuries or even thousands of years" to recover from a large fire, experts have said.

Firefighters were first called to Langdale Moor near RAF Fylingdales on Monday evening, with a major incident declared on Wednesday.

On Friday evening, nine fire engines were on scene, according to North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (NYFRS), with the smell of smoke reaching as far south as York, 35 miles away.

Elspeth Ingleby, from the North York Moors National Park Authority (NYMNPA), said: "It's catastrophic for the habitats that are found in that location and the wildlife that currently lives there."

The area affected covers a site of special scientific interest, a special conservation area and a special protection area, the senior ecologist said. This included a "really, really highly designated site" for merlin, one of the smallest birds of prey in the UK.

Ms Ingleby said that as a ground-nesting species, merlin only bred within deeper heather beds, which have been protected in the area for at least 15 years. "It really is devastating and it will take probably 10 years or more for the heather to develop to that depth again to enable them to breed in the future."

Ms Ingleby said the wildfire could be undoing "thousands of years of peat and carbon storage", with heritage and history below the surface lost, as well as habitats above the ground. "It can take many decades, centuries and even thousands of years to really recover from that kind of impact."

Lynden Marquis, from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, said: "Quite a lot of the wildlife is really going to struggle to either escape the fire or deal with the consequences of what has happened to the habitat. Slow-moving animals, for instance field voles or lizards or snakes, are simply not going to be able to escape. They are going to, frankly, die in a terrible way."

Species of thrush which visit the UK during the autumn and winter would also be at risk, he said, because they normally feed on berries which grow in the area.

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On Tuesday, steam services were suspended on the nearby North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but the heritage organisation said on Wednesday it would aim to run steam trains "between Grosmont and Whitby due to the lower fire risk profile".

Trains between Grosmont and Pickering would continue to be hauled by diesel locomotives, to reduce the potential risk of further pressure on emergency services, it confirmed.


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20:12 Swindon to Westbury due 20:56
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12

22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a broken down train earlier today.

As an aside the 17:35 was never shown as cancelled so I am wondering if it was a guard that was missing and the plan was to run the 16:24 empty up to Swindon and pick up a guard there for the return.

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06

17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will be terminated at Swindon.
It will no longer call at Chippenham, Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, Dilton Marsh, Warminster and Salisbury.
This is due to overcrowding.

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