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Derailed Freight Train At Hayes - 1171/3346 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 23rd January 2007 Many cancellations due to this : 10:45 London Paddington to Swansea due 13:45 This train will be run fast from London Paddington to Bristol Parkway. It will no longer call at: Reading and Swindon. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 13:05 Oxford to London Paddington due 13:58 This train will be cancelled. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 11:22 London Paddington to Oxford due 12:17 This train will be cancelled. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 10:38 Oxford to London Paddington due 11:32 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 10:00 London Paddington to Oxford due 11:25 This train will be revised. It will no longer call at: Ealing Broadway, Hayes & Harlington, Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford, Tilehurst, Pangbourne, Goring & Streatley, Cholsey and Didcot Parkway. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 12:46 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington due 14:56 This train has been started from Gloucester. It will no longer call at: Cheltenham Spa. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 09:48 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa due 12:03 This train will be delayed at London Paddington and is expected to be 60 minutes late. This train will be terminated at Gloucester. It will no longer call at: Cheltenham Spa. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 11:30 London Paddington to Oxford due 13:01 This train will be started from Reading. It will no longer call at: London Paddington, Ealing Broadway, Hayes & Harlington, Slough, Maidenhead and Twyford. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 10:19 Reading to London Paddington due 11:11 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 10:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central due 12:20 This train will be started from Reading. It will no longer call at: London Paddington. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. 09:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central due 11:20 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a derailed freight train at Hayes. No further information is available at this time. Do let us know if you are in / were in the area. Re: Derailed Freight Train At Hayes - 1171/3354 Written by Disco on Tuesday, 23rd January 2007 Hi, I was in the area. Trying to get from Paddington to Slough. The 9:00 train left at 9:35 or so and stopped at every stop on the way, so I got to work at 10:30. Great excuse to be late for work! Don't think I'll get away with it too many times though... Re: Derailed Freight Train At Hayes - 1171/3358 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 23rd January 2007 Many thanks , and welcome to the forum. Re: Derailed Freight Train At Hayes - 1171/3359 Written by PennyFrench on Tuesday, 23rd January 2007 Yup, I got snared in this one this morning. The 07.46 from Reading got to Paddington at precisely 09.03. I was sitting on the floor in an aisle for most of the journey. Joy. Accidents like derailments will happen but I will be interested to see quite how long these delays go on for..... Re: Derailed Freight Train At Hayes - 1171/3360 Written by AFCChris on Tuesday, 23rd January 2007 I was on a train which was the delayed 8.53 from Reading to Paddington, which left Reading at 9.25 and got in at 10.55!! I had actually changed t Reading from the 9.02 from Didcot to Paddington as I couldn't get a seat on that one(!!!) so at least I had a seat while we were stuck. I imagine that the people on the train I got off were stuck as well and loads of them didn't have seats so at least my change of train was good in one way!! I worked out that the 8.53 from Reading was the 5.32 from Plymouth and should have got to Paddington at 9.21. So nearly 5 and a half hours for those people who got on at Plymouth. This is so very, very bad. I've just discovered this site and would be interested in any weblinks to FGW passenger sites or general sites for disgruntled customers Cheers and good luck to everyone getting home! Chris Re: Derailed Freight Train At Hayes - 1171/3361 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 23rd January 2007 Welcome to the forum , Chris. [quote author=AFCChris link=topic=1171.msg3360#msg3360 date=1169562028]I've just discovered this site and would be interested in any weblinks to FGW passenger sites or general sites for disgruntled customers[/quote] The "other site" (CANBER) has a few......(link below.) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/G1517 link to index of articles |
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham. Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome. The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users. We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can. -- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021 | |||
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