Just found on the FGW website.... 12:50pm 11/01/07

Service incidents
15:10 Exeter St Davids to London Paddington due 17:55
This train has been cancelled. This is due to a fallen tree on the line..
12:18 London Paddington to Exeter St Davids due 14:53
This train has been cancelled. This is due to a fallen tree on the line.
13:00 Cardiff Central to Westbury due 14:50
This train has been cancelled.
11:05 London Paddington to Plymouth due 14:35
This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Pewsey. This is due to a fallen tree on the line.
14:55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington due 17:02
This train has been cancelled.
13:55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington due 16:02
This train has been cancelled.
12:55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington due 15:02
This train has been cancelled.
15:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central due 17:20
This train has been cancelled.
14:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central due 16:20
This train has been cancelled.


AND... there's more!! 27 different service amendments!! Take a look!!

Daniel

Surely those services would be HST's? Would they send those down the Melksham Branch?

I suspect that the 11:05 from Paddington ("not stopping Pewsey") came via Melksham.   We're very used indeed to local train sbeing cancelled whenever First wants to send its expresses our way, and feels that cancelling our trains is better that holding an express up for a few minutes.   It's always been that way - even when Wessex trains ran the local franchise.   Of course, what's changed now is that there are so few local trains that they're not there to BE in the way.