Some problems yesterday including:

1523 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street cancelled between Oxford and Worcester Foregate Street due to disorder (VA)
1552 London Paddington to Great Malvern cancelled between Worcester Shrub Hill and Great Malvern due to late arrival of an inbound service (YI) (departed Oxford 59 late, arrived WOS 69 late)
1658 London Paddington to Great Malvern cancelled between Worcester Foregate Street and Great Malvern due to late arrival of an inbound service (YI) (departed Oxford 19 late, held at Wolvercote Junction and arrived at WOF 69 late)

17:04 Didcot Parkway to Evesham due 18:23 will be cancelled.
This is due to a broken down train.

18:51 Evesham to Oxford due 19:50 will be cancelled.
This is due to a broken down train.

"The trains on the branches will be running at normal times, but connections may not be made so you may have to wait for the next train?

"The trains on the branches will be running at normal times, but connections may not be made so you may have to wait for the next train?

Google maps indicates around 4 direct well spaced out TGV services to Paris per day taking around 3 and a half hours, the first before eight, the last one at 6:55pm arriving Montparnasse at around 10:20pm.

Mark

You’re saying it would have been more sensible to write “We apologise, but this will increase the likelihood of a passenger disturbance on branch line trains, but your train might well be quieter.” 

My emphasises.

I'll take that final sentence as a question, Phantom. No expertise beyond my own dealings with the DWP and its handsomely rewarded, but poorly performing, contractors. No expertise beyond studying up on all the legislation, reading the Decision Makers Guidance and Health Professional's Guidance. I have the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Social Security Act 1998 bookmarked in my browser. No expertise beyond reading case law. No expertise beyond helping several other people navigate the PIP claims and assessment process. No expertise beyond helping someone else successfully appeal at tribunal where, but for Covid, I would have appeared as a McKenzie Friend. No expertise beyond contributing and discussing my experiences with those involved in Upper Tier Tribunals and judicial reviews for PIP. No expertise beyond my OWN lived experiences.

Am I an expert? Far from it. But I do have some expertise borne from lived experience of being in the 'system'. All that said I continue to dread my next reassessment. It's a soul destroying, demoralising, dehumanising process that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

In other news, an agreement for solving the Sunday situation has been reached between the Unions and GWR, unfortunately the DfT have reportedly rejected the proposal. 

Oh yes it does - won't it reduce the loadings by having people miss connections, and increase the passenger angst and chance of passenger disturbances on the branch trains?   The JourneyCheck wording written from an operational rather than from a passenger journey viewpoint?

Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to engineering works not being finished on time between London Paddington and Reading fewer trains are able to run on some lines.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled or delayed. Disruption is expected until 07:10 04/07.

Customer Advice
Due to engineering works not being finished in time, the line between London Paddington to Reading will be delayed; altered or cancelled.
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Rail replacement services are not in operation

"Should I spend 5, 60 or 180 minutes here?" when I arrived ... I have ended up spending the full three hours in a gem on the Bay of Biscay.

It was 08:52, in our hotel room, that I was looking into a trip out by train today ... and up popped the 09:04 option.  Scramble!  I am used to quickly throwing my things together but that was even quicker than usual, and being in a hotel just across the road from the station in Angers helped. Made it!

Change at Nantes ... huge crowds, signal failure flagged up, queues of people at enquiries / reservations - and my 20 minute change for Le Croisic was showing up as "delayed 20 minutes".  The incoming train was late from Le Croisic, lots of people piled out and it refilled (yes, filled, at least 4 carriages) before we headed off.
   
The line is like so many ones that are local or regional to a big city - full at Nantes but then more people got off that on - many more off at some stations - and there were about 20 of us - plus a school party that must have been about 30 more - when we reached the terminus.

Le Croisic is the end of the line - I couldn't go further - with the harbour and a headland (and town) ahead, and across to the left are the beaches and cliffs of the Bay of Biscay.  As ever, far too many thngs to photograph and I will add just five images.

Another station I've not visited since it was done up, though more recent. While being built, it looked distinctly Readingesque - does it strike you that way? Or perhaps like Reading would be with an indoor upstairs forest.