| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 12:45, 6th January 2025 |     |
Thanks, grahame. 
I have to say that I agree with ChrisB on this one: I'm a traditionalist, so I keep reverting to the original appearance of the Coffee Shop forum, as it has been since I joined it in December 2007.
Chris 'Luddite' from Nailsea.
I have to say that I agree with ChrisB on this one: I'm a traditionalist, so I keep reverting to the original appearance of the Coffee Shop forum, as it has been since I joined it in December 2007.
Chris 'Luddite' from Nailsea.
I knew I had it in words somewhere ... from the front page at https://www.greatwesternrailway.info ...
We hope you enjoy new Coffee Shop experiences and continue to be comfortable in the well established ones.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 21:32, 5th January 2025 | |
Thanks, grahame.
I have to say that I agree with ChrisB on this one: I'm a traditionalist, so I keep reverting to the original appearance of the Coffee Shop forum, as it has been since I joined it in December 2007.
Chris 'Luddite' from Nailsea.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 20:49, 5th January 2025 | |
Is that page what the new-look coffeeshop posts will look like? I have to say that this format is a lot clearer & less clunky. That linked page is dreadful.
I know how personally people take the formats and grow to love those they are familiar with, Chris. I have opened a door onto opportunities and been concentrating on maintain the old functionality so far, and in doing so have left and will broadly leave the old look and feel too, though it will no longer be the only way to view content. But there is much more to come - you haven't seen anything like the finished product yet.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by ChrisB at 18:33, 5th January 2025 | |
800 follow up posts on this thread in 2024 - and THANK YOU to everyone who has helped me maintain the log. I really appreciate it and it's going to be just as important (but I hope nothing like as busy) for 2025
And for 2025, I have split off our first event of the year into a new thread at http://www.greatwesternrailway.info/29726 ...
And for 2025, I have split off our first event of the year into a new thread at http://www.greatwesternrailway.info/29726 ...
Is that page what the new-look coffeeshop posts will look like? I have to say that this format is a lot clearer & less clunky. That linked page is dreadful.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 08:10, 5th January 2025 | |
weblink showing error on accessing 2025 delays.
Will email error as can't attach here
Will email error as can't attach here
Thanks - missing "/" in URL which I have fixed.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by GBM at 08:03, 5th January 2025 | |
weblink showing error on accessing 2025 delays.
Will email error as can't attach here
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 06:54, 5th January 2025 | |
800 follow up posts on this thread in 2024 - and THANK YOU to everyone who has helped me maintain the log. I really appreciate it and it's going to be just as important (but I hope nothing like as busy) for 2025
And for 2025, I have split off our first event of the year into a new thread at http://www.greatwesternrailway.info/29726 ...
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 14:59, 24th December 2024 | |
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:19
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:19 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 18:03, 23rd December 2024 | |
Why would you not board though?
a) it gets you closer to where you want to go.
b) Any alter train would also stop at BRI to pick you up.
c) As you say, they might just continue after all
a) it gets you closer to where you want to go.
b) Any alter train would also stop at BRI to pick you up.
c) As you say, they might just continue after all
ChrisB - you, I, and most of the members here know those things and would probably take the decision to board the train to Bristol Temple Meads. Others don't have our expertise.
A comparative situation ... I was at Melksham seeing people off onto the 09:10 to Weymouth for a day out and it was "announced" as terminating at Yeovil Pen Mill - station departure board and online. Lost custom because ...
a) Wanted direct train for day out with kids and not messing with changes
b) Fearful as to how long they would have to wait at YVP / whether they would get back later
c) Didn't know if there would be an ongoing train
d) Loss of time at destination
Yes, it was re-instated all the way, but that was only after it had left.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by matth1j at 15:53, 23rd December 2024 | |
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by ChrisB at 15:43, 23rd December 2024 | |
Why would you not board though?
a) it gets you closer to where you want to go.
b) Any alter train would also stop at BRI to pick you up.
c) As you say, they might just continue after all
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by matth1j at 15:30, 23rd December 2024 | |
A bit off-topic but I was waiting at Bath for the 0747 Weston-super-Mare service last week and they were announcing it was going to terminate at Bristol. Didn't affect me as Bristol was my destination, but I imagined it would cause hassle for others.
But not long after boarding the train, presumably without any passengers who had been hoping for a trip to the seaside, it was announced that a driver had been found, and that the train would be continuing onwards as originally scheduled! I was annoyed on behalf of those who had disembarked/not boarded.
(More on-topic - took the 271 bus from Melksham to Bath instead of the 0721 train via Chippenham because I no longer rate my chances of making the (unofficial) connection at Chippenham for the Weston service.)
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 12:56, 23rd December 2024 | |
09:46 Westbury to Swindon due 10:29
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Reinstated.
Indeed - but not before people intending to travel were "panicking" at the cancellation. I was at Melksham station for both the 08:02 and the 10:02 departures this morning, and both picked up around 10 passengers; chatted with some of them.
Although JourneyCheck was flagging up an issues with the 10:02, the display boards at the station were showing it as running and on time all the way through - but of course many savvy customers check before they look at the boards at the station, so may have given up on it. The bloke I spoke with, at the start of a long distance journey (he will be coming back during our bustitution) said he had been worrying for "an hour and a half" before the re-instatement. I wonder how many others had similar panics / notifications and made alternative re-arrangements rather than risk waiting to see if the cancellation was "real". With Christmas Day on Wednesday, I have no easy way of knowing what the loading woukd have been ... (a) if this train had not flagged up as cancelled for a while or (b) if the train service had been reliable of late.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 06:27, 23rd December 2024 | |
09:46 Westbury to Swindon due 10:29
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Reinstated.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 04:29, 23rd December 2024 | |
09:46 Westbury to Swindon due 10:29
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47
11:05 Swindon to Westbury due 11:47 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 09:30, 22nd December 2024 | |
08:06 Warminster to Swindon due 08:58
09:09 Swindon to Westbury due 09:50
10:46 Westbury to Swindon due 11:34
11:41 Swindon to Westbury due 12:22
Facilities on the 11:41 Swindon to Westbury due 12:22.
Toilet facilities are not available.
This is due to a fault on this train.
Additional Information
No toilet facilities available
09:09 Swindon to Westbury due 09:50
10:46 Westbury to Swindon due 11:34
11:41 Swindon to Westbury due 12:22
Facilities on the 11:41 Swindon to Westbury due 12:22.
Toilet facilities are not available.
This is due to a fault on this train.
Additional Information
No toilet facilities available
At least it is running for the most part (the 08:06 started from Westbury) ... lack of a toilet is far less of an issue than lack of a train.
Sunday not in the working wee
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 09:12, 22nd December 2024 | |
08:06 Warminster to Swindon due 08:58
09:09 Swindon to Westbury due 09:50
10:46 Westbury to Swindon due 11:34
11:41 Swindon to Westbury due 12:22
Facilities on the 11:41 Swindon to Westbury due 12:22.
Toilet facilities are not available.
This is due to a fault on this train.
Additional Information
No toilet facilities available
09:09 Swindon to Westbury due 09:50
10:46 Westbury to Swindon due 11:34
11:41 Swindon to Westbury due 12:22
Facilities on the 11:41 Swindon to Westbury due 12:22.
Toilet facilities are not available.
This is due to a fault on this train.
Additional Information
No toilet facilities available
At least it is running for the most part (the 08:06 started from Westbury) ... lack of a toilet is far less of an issue than lack of a train.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 07:06, 22nd December 2024 | |
08:06 Warminster to Swindon due 08:58
08:06 Warminster to Swindon due 08:58 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Warminster and Dilton Marsh.
This is due to a points failure.
08:06 Warminster to Swindon due 08:58 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Warminster and Dilton Marsh.
This is due to a points failure.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 18:47, 20th December 2024 | |
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will no longer call at Stonehouse, Stroud and Kemble.
It is being delayed at Gloucester.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will no longer call at Stonehouse, Stroud and Kemble.
It is being delayed at Gloucester.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by RA at 12:01, 19th December 2024 | |
The 12:17 Westbury - Swindon was cancelled due to a problem with the traction equipment.
Its return, the 13:14 from Swindon, was also cancelled: unknown cause according to RTT, or, if you prefer Journeycheck: congestion.
Cancelled to allow 1C78 to divert via Melksham as a freight locomotive was having issues between Reading and Theale. Yet again, a problem on that route sees the Melksham service removed.
For the record, the 09:45 Westbury to Swindon and 11:05 Swindon to Westbury services can be added to the list of cancelled services on Monday 09th December.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by GBM at 07:55, 19th December 2024 | |
problem with the traction equipment.
Its return, Journeycheck: congestion.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by Trowres at 00:11, 19th December 2024 | |
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton (supposedly) via Swindon this morning
I wonder how many more we fail to pick up - this came to my attention later only because of the effect on a train later in the diagram
This service was cancelled between Westbury and Southampton Central due to a power supply problem
I wonder how many more we fail to pick up - this came to my attention later only because of the effect on a train later in the diagram
The 12:17 Westbury - Swindon was cancelled due to a problem with the traction equipment.
Its return, the 13:14 from Swindon, was also cancelled: unknown cause according to RTT, or, if you prefer Journeycheck: congestion.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 09:24, 18th December 2024 | |
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton (supposedly) via Swindon this morning
This service was cancelled between Westbury and Southampton Central due to a power supply problem
I wonder how many more we fail to pick up - this came to my attention later only because of the effect on a train later in the diagram
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 18:59, 17th December 2024 | |
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Dilton Marsh, Warminster and Salisbury.
This is due to a fault on this train.
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Dilton Marsh, Warminster and Salisbury.
This is due to a fault on this train.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 12:45, 17th December 2024 | |
10:35 London Paddington to Exeter St Davids due 13:07
10:35 London Paddington to Exeter St Davids due 13:07 is being delayed between Reading and Newbury and is now expected to be 17 minutes late.
This is due to a safety inspection of the track earlier today.
10:35 London Paddington to Exeter St Davids due 13:07 is being delayed between Reading and Newbury and is now expected to be 17 minutes late.
This is due to a safety inspection of the track earlier today.
and so ...
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 12:59
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 12:59 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 12:59 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.
Ah - the effect of interworking of crews! At least the Swindon train is not cancelled today and in fact (and in spite of the JoruneyCheck Alert) it was within a minute from Westbury. Sharp change by the crew!
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 20:10, 16th December 2024 | |
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by bobm at 17:46, 16th December 2024 | |
The 16:23 from Westbury was also cancelled. It was at the platform waiting for a guard but with them still half an hour away it was cancelled at around 16:30.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 17:30, 16th December 2024 | |
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:19
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:19 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:19 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 12:06, 16th December 2024 | |
Cancellations to services between Swindon and Westbury via Melksham
Due to a fault with the signalling system at Swindon all lines are blocked. Disruption is expected until 13:30 16/12.
Train services between Swindon and Westbury via Melksham may be cancelled or delayed.
Customer Advice
A major signal outage in the Swindon area is afecting our ability to run a train service. No trains can currently move through the area, and further trains are likely to be cancelled. Specilaist teams are on site, but are currently unable to resolve the problem. We are working on alternatives, but this is likely to take time.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by brooklea at 10:04, 16th December 2024 | |
13:14 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the 13:15 runs from Swindon (train 2M26), and the last train of the day from Swindon, the 22:31 to Westbury (train 2M36) ends up being cancelled.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 08:45, 16th December 2024 | |
13:14 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 05:34, 16th December 2024 | |
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:09
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:09 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Gloucester, Stonehouse, Stroud, Kemble, Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:09 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Gloucester, Stonehouse, Stroud, Kemble, Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
and
06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47
06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will be started from Swindon.
It will no longer call at Salisbury, Warminster, Westbury, Trowbridge, Melksham and Chippenham.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will be started from Swindon.
It will no longer call at Salisbury, Warminster, Westbury, Trowbridge, Melksham and Chippenham.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 04:34, 16th December 2024 | |
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:09
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:09 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Gloucester, Stonehouse, Stroud, Kemble, Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 14:36, 15th December 2024 | |
13:32 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:46
13:32 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:46 has been cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
20:38 Westbury to Swindon due 21:23
20:38 Westbury to Swindon due 21:23 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 13:11, 15th December 2024 | |
21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:16
21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:16 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:16 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 16:40, 14th December 2024 | |
Sun, 15 December 08:16 Westbury to Swindon due 08:58
Sun, 15 December 09:08 Swindon to Westbury due 09:49
Sun, 15 December 10:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 13:03
15/12/24 10:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 13:03 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Sun, 15 December 09:08 Swindon to Westbury due 09:49
Sun, 15 December 10:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 13:03
15/12/24 10:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 13:03 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by Phil at 13:40, 14th December 2024 | |
This is a completely unusable service now. I live in Melksham. Yesterday I wanted to go to Bristol to attend a meeting at the old Bristol & Exeter building at Temple Meads. The timings of the Melksham trains fitted in with my requirement, but I was too scared to use them as it was important that I got there on time (and ideally home again) (preferably on the same day)
So I drove to Westbury. Cheaper parking than Chippenham, plenty of parking spaces compared to Bradford on Avon, and less chance of my car being jacked up on bricks when I got back had I parked it in Trowbridge.
What a stupid, illogical, untenable position to find myself in though, (a) having to drive at all, and (b) having to drive ten miles south in order to travel twenty five miles west.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 09:37, 14th December 2024 | |
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
And sadly more to be added ...
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
.....and another
19:44 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25
19:44 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 09:20, 14th December 2024 | |
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
And sadly more to be added ...
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 05:12, 14th December 2024 | |
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 08:25, 13th December 2024 | |
18:37 Westbury to Swindon due 19:21
20:14 Swindon to Westbury due 20:58
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 shortage of train crew.
20:14 Swindon to Westbury due 20:58
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 shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 06:05, 13th December 2024 | |
14:18 Westbury to Swindon due 15:00
14:18 Westbury to Swindon due 15:00 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
15:15 Swindon to Westbury due 15:59
15:15 Swindon to Westbury due 15:59 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 09:26, 12th December 2024 | |
17:45 Swindon to Westbury due 18:29
17:45 Swindon to Westbury due 18:29 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:45 Swindon to Westbury due 18:29 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 11:28, 11th December 2024 | |
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:07
An additional train service has been planned to operate as shown 16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:07.
An additional train service has been planned to operate as shown 16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:07.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 05:25, 11th December 2024 | |
07:52 Westbury to Swindon due 08:36
07:52 Westbury to Swindon due 08:36 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
07:52 Westbury to Swindon due 08:36 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Due to engineering works on the Berks and Hants, 16 out of 18 local trains are already cancelled this week due to the line being taken over by semi fast services from further west to London.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 22:27, 9th December 2024 | |
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
An additional train service has been planned to operate as shown
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12.
An additional train service has been planned to operate as shown
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by bobm at 18:19, 9th December 2024 | |
Presumably missing a guard. Unit is running empty from Gloucester.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 17:23, 9th December 2024 | |
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Gloucester, Stonehouse, Stroud, Kemble, Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Gloucester, Stonehouse, Stroud, Kemble, Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 09:23, 9th December 2024 | |
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 12:59
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Usual pair cancelled - staffed off the London to Paignton service and if anything goes wrong - oops ...
Never mind there will be another train along 2 hours later, or (if you are not headed to / from Melksham) you can travel via Bath Spa, for which the online booking engine will charge you more than twice as much.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 05:43, 9th December 2024 | |
It appears that both Chippenham and Westbury are re-opened this morning - a big "Thank You" to everyone involved; it was not pleasant weather to be out in.
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Dilton Marsh, Warminster, Salisbury, Romsey and Southampton Central.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Dilton Marsh, Warminster, Salisbury, Romsey and Southampton Central.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Back to the "old" problems then ... and on the shoulder of the weekend shutdown a few "shortage of train crew"s are more forgivable that on a normal Sunday ... or Saturday ...
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 15:18, 8th December 2024 | |
There is a similar mention about limited road transport in connection with the Chippenham closure.
There is also limited ticket acceptance
For customers arriving at Chippenham, LIMITED road transport is in operation for customers making local journeys towards Bath Spa, Swindon, Melksham, and Westbury.
There is also limited ticket acceptance
Stagecoach route 55: Swindon (Bus Station), Chippenham (Station) are conveying passengers via any reasonable route until further notice. Arrangements have been made for Great Western Railway rail tickets to be accepted for these journeys.
Oh dear ... so from Bath you travel through Chippenham to get to Swindon then double back. Happy days?
Funnily enough the 231 bus runs from Bath to Melksham - but as that's not run by First's big bus company friends, no arrangements or mention in place.
Customers requiring Chippenham are advised to travel to Swindon, where road transport will be available. If travelling from Bristol Temple Meads or Bath Spa, please board a London Paddington bound service and change at Swindon. For customers travelling from London Paddington or Reading, please alight at Swindon for transport. Please also be advised that due to availability, there may be a waiting time of up to 30 minutes at Swindon for road transport.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by bobm at 15:09, 8th December 2024 | |
There is a similar mention about limited road transport in connection with the Chippenham closure.
For customers arriving at Chippenham, LIMITED road transport is in operation for customers making local journeys towards Bath Spa, Swindon, Melksham, and Westbury.
There is also limited ticket acceptance
Stagecoach route 55: Swindon (Bus Station), Chippenham (Station) are conveying passengers via any reasonable route until further notice. Arrangements have been made for Great Western Railway rail tickets to be accepted for these journeys.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 14:58, 8th December 2024 | |
Looks like this will continue into the week..................
Cancellations to services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham
Due to severe weather at Westbury all lines are closed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day on 09/12/24.
Train services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham will be cancelled.
Customer Advice
Westbury station has been closed as a safety precaution, and trains are unable to call there.
This will not be fixed until Monday 9th December at the earliest.
Limited road transport is operating in place of several services.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 11:04, 8th December 2024 | |
Due to severe weather at Westbury all lines are closed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Train services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham will be cancelled.
Customer Advice
Westbury station has been closed as a safety precaution, and trains are unable to call there.
This will not be fixed until Monday 9th December at the earliest.
We are in the process of requesting road transport for this route. Details will follow once this is in place.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 08:50, 8th December 2024 | |
No Rail Replacement road services will operate between Westbury and Swindon.
Operators have advised that due to dangerous conditions they are unable to provide an alternative service.
Last Updated:08/12/2024 04:18
Operators have advised that due to dangerous conditions they are unable to provide an alternative service.
Last Updated:08/12/2024 04:18
Faresaver, however, have planned normal services out on the x34 (Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge) and 273 (Devizes - Melksham - Bath) and 231 (Chippenham - Corsham - Bath).
Which operators did GWR talk to / who gave them this advice? Is it far cheaper and easier just to abandon any attempt to provide public transport? Why no ticket acceptance in place?
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 05:28, 8th December 2024 | |
No trains today, and no rail replacement buses or taxis either.
Cancellations to services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham
Due to severe weather at Westbury all lines are closed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Train services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham will be cancelled.
Customer Advice
Westbury station has been closed as a safety precaution, and trains are unable to call there. This is unlikely to be resolved until end of the day Sunday 8th December 2024.
No Rail Replacement road services will operate between Westbury and Swindon.
Operators have advised that due to dangerous conditions they are unable to provide an alternative service.
Passengers are advised not to travel, road transport will not be provided.
Disruption on Saturday 7th December 2024 and Sunday 8th December 2024
Following red and amber weather warnings in relation to Storm Darragh on parts of our network, we are advising customers to change their plans if possible this weekend. Strong winds mean speed restrictions will be in place across the network, increasing journey times. Fallen trees and other debris may also impact services.
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Ticket Easement;
Customers with tickets for travel on GWR services on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th December can be used on Monday 9th December. If you no longer wish to travel this weekend you can claim a full refund at GWR.com/help-and-support/refunds.
Further Information
An update will follow within the next 2 hours.
If you require further information please speak to our staff at the station or on the train, use the Customer Help Point, tweet us @GWRHelp or call National Rail Enquiries on 03457 484 950.
If you arrive at your destination 15 or more minutes late because your GWR train was delayed or cancelled, you can claim Delay Repay compensation. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR.com/DelayRepay
Last Updated:08/12/2024 04:18
Due to severe weather at Westbury all lines are closed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Train services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham will be cancelled.
Customer Advice
Westbury station has been closed as a safety precaution, and trains are unable to call there. This is unlikely to be resolved until end of the day Sunday 8th December 2024.
No Rail Replacement road services will operate between Westbury and Swindon.
Operators have advised that due to dangerous conditions they are unable to provide an alternative service.
Passengers are advised not to travel, road transport will not be provided.
Disruption on Saturday 7th December 2024 and Sunday 8th December 2024
Following red and amber weather warnings in relation to Storm Darragh on parts of our network, we are advising customers to change their plans if possible this weekend. Strong winds mean speed restrictions will be in place across the network, increasing journey times. Fallen trees and other debris may also impact services.
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Ticket Easement;
Customers with tickets for travel on GWR services on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th December can be used on Monday 9th December. If you no longer wish to travel this weekend you can claim a full refund at GWR.com/help-and-support/refunds.
Further Information
An update will follow within the next 2 hours.
If you require further information please speak to our staff at the station or on the train, use the Customer Help Point, tweet us @GWRHelp or call National Rail Enquiries on 03457 484 950.
If you arrive at your destination 15 or more minutes late because your GWR train was delayed or cancelled, you can claim Delay Repay compensation. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR.com/DelayRepay
Last Updated:08/12/2024 04:18
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 19:45, 7th December 2024 | |
No Rail Replacement road services will operate between Westbury and Swindon.
Operators have advised that due to dangerous conditions they are unable to provide an alternative service.
Eh? In Melksham at the centre of that line, where I live, buses were all suspeneded this morning but services 271 and 272 resumed at lunch time, and service 273 (evenings and Sundays) is running now. And I would be surprised if Sunday's x34 does not run.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 18:57, 7th December 2024 | |
Looks like a wipe out on the Transwilts tomorrow, with no replacement road options on offer....
Cancellations to services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham
Due to severe weather at Westbury all lines are closed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Train services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham will be cancelled.
Customer Advice
Westbury station has been closed as a safety precaution, and trains are unable to call there.
This is unlikely to be resolved until end of the day Sunday 8th December 2024.
No Rail Replacement road services will operate between Westbury and Swindon.
Operators have advised that due to dangerous conditions they are unable to provide an alternative service.
Passengers are advised not to travel, road transport will not be provided.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 09:31, 7th December 2024 | |
Cancellations to services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham
Due to severe weather at Westbury all lines are closed. Disruption is expected until 14:00 07/12.
Train services between Westbury and Swindon via Melksham will be cancelled.
Customer Advice
The station roof at Westbury has incurred significant damage from Storm Darragh, and is not safe to keep Westbury station open; therefore WESTBURY STATION IS CLOSED!
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 07:14, 7th December 2024 | |
350 cancellations across the GWR area - understandable in the weather.
Cancellations to services between Par and Newquay
Cancellations to services between Exeter St Davids and Okehampton
Cancellations to services between Truro and Falmouth Docks
Cancellations to services between Cardiff Central and Carmarthen
Cancellations to services between Plymouth and Penzance
Cancellations to services between Exeter St Davids and Barnstaple
Cancellations to services between Plymouth and Gunnislake
Cancellations to services between Liskeard and Looe
Cancellations to services between St Erth and St Ives
Cancellations to services between Hereford and Worcester Foregate Street
Cancellations to services between Exeter St Davids and Okehampton
Cancellations to services between Truro and Falmouth Docks
Cancellations to services between Cardiff Central and Carmarthen
Cancellations to services between Plymouth and Penzance
Cancellations to services between Exeter St Davids and Barnstaple
Cancellations to services between Plymouth and Gunnislake
Cancellations to services between Liskeard and Looe
Cancellations to services between St Erth and St Ives
Cancellations to services between Hereford and Worcester Foregate Street
Ironic that the Swindon to Westbury service is NOT listed ... our cancellation are staff shortages! Of course there are plenty of drivers not driving and train managers not train managing in those other places ... but there's no way that in this complex world of specialisation that a cancelled service driver at Cardiff can hop over a couple of stops (Newport and Bristol Parkway) to Swindon and drive our train.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 05:44, 7th December 2024 | |
Saturday - the new Sunday
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25
19:44 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25
20:08 Westbury to Swindon due 20:54
21:10 Swindon to Westbury due 21:52 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
18:35 Westbury to Swindon due 19:25
19:44 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25
20:08 Westbury to Swindon due 20:54
21:10 Swindon to Westbury due 21:52 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
I know it's a bit breezy out there are I kinda expected "because of severe weather" as it is on the huge number of cancellations on the Cornish branches.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 22:07, 6th December 2024 | |
21:33 Westbury to Salisbury due 22:05
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 21:13, 5th December 2024 | |
20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:05
20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:05 will be terminated at Gloucester.
It will no longer call at Cheltenham Spa.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.
20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 22:05 will be terminated at Gloucester.
It will no longer call at Cheltenham Spa.
This is due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 07:41, 5th December 2024 | |
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a passenger being taken ill on this train.
Further Information
Last Updated:03/12/2024 21:45
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a passenger being taken ill on this train.
Further Information
Last Updated:03/12/2024 21:45
And this is the sort of situation in which it can be perfectly reasonable and indeed right to cancel a train.
...........as long as contingency plans are robust enough to allow alternatives to be put in place rapidly to prevent other customers being stranded.
TOTAL agreement. With cancellations reduced to a sensible rate, people would be far more inclined to put themselves out to helpnget stranded passengers to their homes/destinations in the circumstances. Be that a member of staff staying on an extra hour, or a taxi driver taking a fare that took him out of area. And contingencies could be "allowed" to be more expensive to the railway when called into use, because the number of time they're used should be so much lower.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 07:05, 5th December 2024 | |
Update at 06:41
Delays to services between Bath Spa and Westbury
Following a safety inspection of the track between Bath Spa and Westbury some lines have now reopened.
Train services running through these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer Advice
Due to an earlier tree blocking the line at Bradford on Avon, the line has just re-opened.
Following a safety inspection of the track between Bath Spa and Westbury some lines have now reopened.
Train services running through these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer Advice
Due to an earlier tree blocking the line at Bradford on Avon, the line has just re-opened.
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:34
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:34 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to a tree blocking the railway.
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:34 will be starting late from Westbury.
This is due to a tree blocking the railway.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 07:04, 4th December 2024 | |
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a passenger being taken ill on this train.
Further Information
Last Updated:03/12/2024 21:45
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a passenger being taken ill on this train.
Further Information
Last Updated:03/12/2024 21:45
And this is the sort of situation in which it can be perfectly reasonable and indeed right to cancel a train.
...........as long as contingency plans are robust enough to allow alternatives to be put in place rapidly to prevent other customers being stranded.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 22:34, 3rd December 2024 | |
It is interesting Realtimetrains puts the cause down as "disorder".
Hmmm ... hard to know and rare enough to wish appreciate it's just one of those rare things where passengers need sorting out at the detriment of the train running. Be they unwell because of a regular illness, or because they've been assaulted by someone else or from the effects of imbibing too much of something.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by bobm at 22:26, 3rd December 2024 | |
It is interesting Realtimetrains puts the cause down as "disorder".
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 22:23, 3rd December 2024 | |
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a passenger being taken ill on this train.
Further Information
Last Updated:03/12/2024 21:45
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a passenger being taken ill on this train.
Further Information
Last Updated:03/12/2024 21:45
And this is the sort of situation in which it can be perfectly reasonable and indeed right to cancel a train.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 09:58, 3rd December 2024 | |
06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 was terminated at Gloucester.
It will no longer call at Cheltenham Spa, Ashchurch For Tewkesbury, Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcester Foregate Street.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system.
It will no longer call at Cheltenham Spa, Ashchurch For Tewkesbury, Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcester Foregate Street.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 06:14, 3rd December 2024 | |
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07 will no longer call at Dilton Marsh.
This is due to urgent repairs to the railway.
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07 will no longer call at Dilton Marsh.
This is due to urgent repairs to the railway.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 18:17, 2nd December 2024 | |
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 has been delayed at Gloucester and is now 15 minutes late.
This is due to train crew being delayed.
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 has been delayed at Gloucester and is now 15 minutes late.
This is due to train crew being delayed.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 08:20, 1st December 2024 | |
Sun, 1 December 08:10 Warminster to Swindon due 09:02
Sun, 1 December 09:12 Swindon to Westbury due 09:53
Sun, 1 December 10:46 Westbury to Swindon due 11:34
Sun, 1 December 11:44 Swindon to Westbury due 12:26
Sun, 1 December 14:22 Frome to Swindon due 15:33
Sun, 1 December 15:44 Swindon to Frome due 16:38
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Further Information
If you arrive at your destination 15 or more minutes late because your GWR train was delayed or cancelled, you can claim Delay Repay compensation. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR.com/DelayRepay
Last Updated:30/11/2024 20:01
Sun, 1 December 09:12 Swindon to Westbury due 09:53
Sun, 1 December 10:46 Westbury to Swindon due 11:34
Sun, 1 December 11:44 Swindon to Westbury due 12:26
Sun, 1 December 14:22 Frome to Swindon due 15:33
Sun, 1 December 15:44 Swindon to Frome due 16:38
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Further Information
If you arrive at your destination 15 or more minutes late because your GWR train was delayed or cancelled, you can claim Delay Repay compensation. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR.com/DelayRepay
Last Updated:30/11/2024 20:01
Sun, 1 December 13:42 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:57
01/12/24 13:42 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:57 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Yeovil Pen Mill, Thornford, Yetminster, Chetnole, Maiden Newton, Dorchester West, Upwey and Weymouth.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
01/12/24 13:42 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:57 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Yeovil Pen Mill, Thornford, Yetminster, Chetnole, Maiden Newton, Dorchester West, Upwey and Weymouth.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
20:38 Westbury to Swindon due 21:23
20:38 Westbury to Swindon due 21:23 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:16
21:34 Swindon to Westbury due 22:16 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 20:25, 30th November 2024 | |
Sun, 1 December 08:10 Warminster to Swindon due 09:02
Sun, 1 December 09:12 Swindon to Westbury due 09:53
Sun, 1 December 10:46 Westbury to Swindon due 11:34
Sun, 1 December 11:44 Swindon to Westbury due 12:26
Sun, 1 December 14:22 Frome to Swindon due 15:33
Sun, 1 December 15:44 Swindon to Frome due 16:38
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Further Information
If you arrive at your destination 15 or more minutes late because your GWR train was delayed or cancelled, you can claim Delay Repay compensation. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR.com/DelayRepay
Last Updated:30/11/2024 20:01
Sun, 1 December 09:12 Swindon to Westbury due 09:53
Sun, 1 December 10:46 Westbury to Swindon due 11:34
Sun, 1 December 11:44 Swindon to Westbury due 12:26
Sun, 1 December 14:22 Frome to Swindon due 15:33
Sun, 1 December 15:44 Swindon to Frome due 16:38
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Further Information
If you arrive at your destination 15 or more minutes late because your GWR train was delayed or cancelled, you can claim Delay Repay compensation. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR.com/DelayRepay
Last Updated:30/11/2024 20:01
Sun, 1 December 13:42 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:57
01/12/24 13:42 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:57 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Yeovil Pen Mill, Thornford, Yetminster, Chetnole, Maiden Newton, Dorchester West, Upwey and Weymouth.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
01/12/24 13:42 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:57 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Yeovil Pen Mill, Thornford, Yetminster, Chetnole, Maiden Newton, Dorchester West, Upwey and Weymouth.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 10:13, 30th November 2024 | |
Oh dear. The miracle didn't last long.
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
That may not be all.
A study of the Real Time Trains departures from MKM for today currently shows that after the 11:31 to Westbury has left, the next service that has a specific train allotted to it is the 20:25 to Swindon https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:MKM/2024-11-30/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=passenger&order=wtt
Faresaver may be busy this afternoon….
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| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by brooklea at 09:13, 30th November 2024 | |
Oh dear. The miracle didn't last long.
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
That may not be all.
A study of the Real Time Trains departures from MKM for today currently shows that after the 11:31 to Westbury has left, the next service that has a specific train allotted to it is the 20:25 to Swindon https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:MKM/2024-11-30/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=passenger&order=wtt
Faresaver may be busy this afternoon….
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 09:05, 30th November 2024 | |
Oh dear. The miracle didn't last long.
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01
14:19 Westbury to Swindon due 15:01 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57
15:14 Swindon to Westbury due 15:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:18 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 08:41, 30th November 2024 | |
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 13:01
13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55
13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55
13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
That train is usually staffed by long distance drivers and train managers off the 10:35 Paddington to Paignton which is also cancelled!
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 08:35, 30th November 2024 | |
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 13:01
13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55
13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55
13:13 Swindon to Westbury due 13:55 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 06:33, 30th November 2024 | |
The miracle of Melksham! 
I would rather suspect that it's just that we highlight the line, and that the JourneyCheck system is a poor crystal ball.
There's no "check back - we may have to cancel this" flag for the public during the scrambling around (colloquial term) for staff to run a train. But I'm not sure what difference that would make to Jo Public / whether the publication of another layer of data would simply confuse the picture and lead to more questions. The real solution is to employ people for when and where they are needed, on terms they want to work / be there. It's called Utopia and at times it feels - in Shrek terms - far far away. Seeing how many cliches I can get in one paragraph, I often feel like a child asking "are we nearly there" and getting platitudes back to reassure me when, no, we are nowhere near there at present.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 06:23, 30th November 2024 | |
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Ah, but ...
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be reinstated and will now run as scheduled.
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be reinstated and will now run as scheduled.
The miracle of Melksham!
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 05:45, 30th November 2024 | |
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Ah, but ...
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be reinstated and will now run as scheduled.
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be reinstated and will now run as scheduled.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 05:27, 30th November 2024 | |
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:28 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by IndustryInsider at 21:06, 29th November 2024 | |
I despair. Could there be any connection here with more staff being needed to run extra trains tomorrow for the Bath Christmas Market, and resources / rotas / overtime availability being moved around to have staff for them? What sort of business lets downs its regular bread and butter customers for the special ones who use it just once a year?
With no incentives tomorrow that I know of, I can't see any situation, from a resources/rotas/overtime perspective, where planning for additional trains tomorrow would affect services today.
I suspect the OP was asking whether the operator might sacrifice certain services to ensure sufficient roster available for the additional Bath services?
Indeed. From personal experience of scheduling a limited number of staff, we would plan shifts to have more people working on the busier days at the expense of having a smaller team the day just before or just after. On a staff base already stretched that would have been a problem, but if we hadn't been able to cover everything, staffing for the busiest day could, potentially' have enforced a cutting of hotel services on the day before or after.
Understand completely from a small business perspective, but that’s not the way driver/TM rostering works.
If there is an uncovered shift on the Friday and there is a volunteer to work an additional shift then they will get that uncovered shift regardless of how the situation is looking the following day (and subject to them not being in breach of the four Hidden regulations).
You are probably going to get more volunteers for a Friday than a Saturday as an average anyway, but at the moment, for the reasons documented, there are fewer volunteers across the board.
There might well be some juggling around tomorrow in order to cover the Bath extras, and that might be at the expense of TransWilts services, but that’s a different thing.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by bobm at 20:36, 29th November 2024 | |
Partial points failure at Bradford Junction. Signaller can only route trains towards Bradford-on-Avon.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 20:24, 29th November 2024 | |
One of the few services not cancelled, the 18:37 Westbury-Swindon, has been rerouted via Bathampton, not serving Melksham. Anyone know why? - there's nothing on Journeycheck.
Looks like it was late off Westbury, then took a long time from Trowbridge to passing Bradford Junction. Can't see anything else on the single line but it's as if there was. Something else diverted through? Points failure? Train hijacked by someone who neededmto get home to Freshford?
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by Trowres at 19:41, 29th November 2024 | |
One of the few services not cancelled, the 18:37 Westbury-Swindon, has been rerouted via Bathampton, not serving Melksham. Anyone know why? - there's nothing on Journeycheck.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 17:36, 29th November 2024 | |
I despair. Could there be any connection here with more staff being needed to run extra trains tomorrow for the Bath Christmas Market, and resources / rotas / overtime availability being moved around to have staff for them? What sort of business lets downs its regular bread and butter customers for the special ones who use it just once a year?
With no incentives tomorrow that I know of, I can't see any situation, from a resources/rotas/overtime perspective, where planning for additional trains tomorrow would affect services today.
I suspect the OP was asking whether the operator might sacrifice certain services to ensure sufficient roster available for the additional Bath services?
Indeed. From personal experience of scheduling a limited number of staff, we would plan shifts to have more people working on the busier days at the expense of having a smaller team the day just before or just after. On a staff base already stretched that would have been a problem, but if we hadn't been able to cover everything, staffing for the busiest day could, potentially' have enforced a cutting of hotel services on the day before or after.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by ChrisB at 15:56, 29th November 2024 | |
I despair. Could there be any connection here with more staff being needed to run extra trains tomorrow for the Bath Christmas Market, and resources / rotas / overtime availability being moved around to have staff for them? What sort of business lets downs its regular bread and butter customers for the special ones who use it just once a year?
With no incentives tomorrow that I know of, I can't see any situation, from a resources/rotas/overtime perspective, where planning for additional trains tomorrow would affect services today.
I suspect the OP was asking whether the operator might sacrifice certain services to =ensure sufficient roster available for the additional Bath services?
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by bobm at 11:24, 29th November 2024 | |
Alternative arrangements have now appeared on Journeycheck for the cancelled 12:17. Hopefully similar will follow for the others.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by IndustryInsider at 11:09, 29th November 2024 | |
I despair. Could there be any connection here with more staff being needed to run extra trains tomorrow for the Bath Christmas Market, and resources / rotas / overtime availability being moved around to have staff for them? What sort of business lets downs its regular bread and butter customers for the special ones who use it just once a year?
With no incentives tomorrow that I know of, I can't see any situation, from a resources/rotas/overtime perspective, where planning for additional trains tomorrow would affect services today.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 07:31, 29th November 2024 | |
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 12:59 will be cancelled.
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57 will be cancelled.
14:18 Westbury to Swindon due 15:00 will be cancelled.
15:15 Swindon to Westbury due 15:59 will be cancelled.
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05 will be cancelled.
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:17 will be cancelled.
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58 will be cancelled.
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57 will be cancelled.
14:18 Westbury to Swindon due 15:00 will be cancelled.
15:15 Swindon to Westbury due 15:59 will be cancelled.
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05 will be cancelled.
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:17 will be cancelled.
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58 will be cancelled.
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
I despair. Could there be any connection here with more staff being needed to run extra trains tomorrow for the Bath Christmas Market, and resources / rotas / overtime availability being moved around to have staff for them? What sort of business lets downs its regular bread and butter customers for the special ones who use it just once a year?
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by TaplowGreen at 06:06, 29th November 2024 | |
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 12:59
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 12:59 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
14:18 Westbury to Swindon due 15:00
14:18 Westbury to Swindon due 15:00 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
15:15 Swindon to Westbury due 15:59
15:15 Swindon to Westbury due 15:59 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:17
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:17 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58
21:16 Westbury to Swindon due 21:58 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12
22:31 Swindon to Westbury due 23:12 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 11:48, 28th November 2024 | |
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will no longer call at Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will no longer call at Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Looks like that one is re-instated but
16:23 Westbury to Swindon due 17:05
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:17
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:17 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Further Information
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Last Updated:28/11/2024 11:23
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:17
17:35 Swindon to Westbury due 18:17 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Further Information
If you arrive at your destination 15 or more minutes late because your GWR train was delayed or cancelled, you can claim Delay Repay compensation. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR.com/DelayRepay
Last Updated:28/11/2024 11:23
Late cancellation (wasn't listed earlier!) of the busiest train of the day, no alternative suggested. You guessed it - GWR ain't got enough appropriate staff available to drive and manage all their trains, and they've chosen to take out this round trip from Westbury to Swindon, which is probably much easier for them planning wise than other options, but leaves much longer gaps than almost any other cancellation would.
Asking people what they want ... https://www.facebook.com/groups/2744131015894810/posts/3409265469381358/
Trains that actually run and buses put on if they are cancelled. I've had to pick up members of family and friends on a number of occasions because trains have been cancelled part way through their journey home and they would've been stranded as no buses put on
I never use trains from Melksham now [snip] I always get a bus to Chippenham or bath and catch a train from there ... I lost count how many times Melksham trains have ruined our days out ...
Are GWR intentionally selecting the Melksham line - already with a thin service - to push to the point that people won't use it?
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 06:12, 28th November 2024 | |
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07 has been delayed at Gloucester and is now 7 minutes late.
This is due to heavy rain flooding the railway.
05:11 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 08:07 has been delayed at Gloucester and is now 7 minutes late.
This is due to heavy rain flooding the railway.
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will no longer call at Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury due 20:06 will no longer call at Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 12:07, 27th November 2024 | |
12:17 Westbury to Swindon due 12:59
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to heavy rain flooding the railway.
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57
13:15 Swindon to Westbury due 13:57 will be cancelled.
This is due to heavy rain flooding the railway.
And which floods are those?
This is the return trip that seems to be interworked with long distance crews, perhaps as a route learner, and seems to get cancelled far too often even when the line itself is fully operational.| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 09:13, 27th November 2024 | |
06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47
06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will call additionally at Dilton Marsh.
This is due to a tree blocking the railway.
06:35 Salisbury to Worcester Foregate Street due 09:47 will call additionally at Dilton Marsh.
This is due to a tree blocking the railway.
IMHO it should call there every day. It took 8 minutes as scheduled from Warminster (2 minutes late) to Westbury, including the extra stop. It was then delayed at Westbury by 18 minutes and appears to have been further delayed beyond, out of path and 28 minutes late by Gloucester.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by grahame at 18:33, 26th November 2024 | |
Melksham has a local issue - something called the Clackers Brook rather going for it - it's already exceeded its 'Highest ever'...
Mark
https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/9279
Mark
https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/9279
Ah yes
- know it well. Various parties saying "something must be done" for years. It floods regularly but this sounds like a corker!Away from the station, how is Melksham (and how are you) faring generally with water levels this time around?
Mark
We (Lisa and Graham, Lulu and Lightning) are fine; we are not on the flood plain though - through the town centre the main road on the A3102 was flooded in 3 place and the road to Bradford-on-Avon too. Businesses flooded and into the ground floor of a handful of homes. Anyone who has been to Melksham by train will have walked past past Lidl (flooded), over the river and up past The Bear (flooded) which are two of the scenes.
I had a chat with our MP's local agent last night and she assured me that no-one has flooded out of their home - however, today we got a phone call from our deputy clerk that there was a family who had had to sleep in their car last night, and had come in to ask for help in finding emergency accommodation as their landlord hadn't been much help. The town was not as prepared as it should have been.
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by Mark A at 16:50, 26th November 2024 | |
Melksham has a local issue - something called the Clackers Brook rather going for it - it's already exceeded its 'Highest ever'...
Mark
https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/9279
Mark
https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/9279
Ah yes
- know it well. Various parties saying "something must be done" for years. It floods regularly but this sounds like a corker!Away from the station, how is Melksham (and how are you) faring generally with water levels this time around?
Mark
| Re: 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury Posted by brooklea at 07:39, 26th November 2024 | |
07:45 Westbury to Swindon due 08:34 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
Further Information
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Last Updated:26/11/2024 07:10
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
Further Information
If you arrive at your destination 15 or more minutes late because your GWR train was delayed or cancelled, you can claim Delay Repay compensation. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR.com/DelayRepay
Last Updated:26/11/2024 07:10
08:45 Swindon to Westbury due 09:26 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
