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Topic: 1702 & 1809 Melksham Trains Cancelled 09/11/2006 (Read 1999 times)
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Lee
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From the First Great Western Website :
16:47 Westbury to Swindon due 17:31
This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable.
17:43 Swindon to Southampton Central due 19:44
This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable.
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Nick Field
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I'm not quite sure what to say about these as they seem to be happening more often other than that if I were a regular commuter on these services I think I would already be switching over to whatever my 'plan b' was.
PS Lee's post was at 11.31, thats some 5 hours before these services start. Surely enough time to re roster staff or bring in additional staff? (overtime etc)
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Graham Ellis
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At least we knew well ahead .... I put my customers on the bus ....
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Graz
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It was generally a bad day for FGW yesterday. In addition to the Melksham cancellations, the signalling problems at Cheltenham Spa were still causing widespread revisions and cancellations, two northbound Oldfield Park trains were cancelled, and some Paddington-Bristol trains were cancelled as well.
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Graham Ellis
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Yes, you can expect bad days ... and I can very much sympathise with the operator on the occasions where things go wrong. It's where an occasion turns into a regular occurrence - where a notable event becomes something close to the norm - that I have to say "perhaps this is incompetence or malice".
I probably wouldn't be so negative against the problems that First had yesterday if this wasn't the third week out of four that they've found it impossible to run the busiest train of the day on at least one occasion.
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