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Topic: 17:02 and 18:09 trains cancelled again, 22/11/2006 (Read 2036 times)
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Chris Street
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From the First Great Western website:
"16:47 Westbury to Swindon due 17:31
22 November 2006
This train has been cancelled.
Road transport will be provided to Chippenham."
"17:43 Swindon to Southampton Central due 19:44
22 November 2006
This train will be started from Westbury at 18:30. It will no longer call at: Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge. This is due to a problem with line-side equipment.
road transport will be provided for customers from Chippenham."
So there is no reason for the 17:02 cancellation... hmm...
I also note that "road transport will be provided for customers to/from Chippenham" but not any other stations on the line?
Quite a lot of updates on FGW website at the moment, another 7 in total, must be stock shortages or something?...
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« Last Edit: November 22, 2006, 05:22:05 PM by streety7 »
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Graham Ellis
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Here we go again. Remember ... what was it ... "this is the easiest train for us to replace by a bus", so it's not necessarily a lineside equipment problem on the TransWilts line itself - it could be something like they've got stock and staff stuck at Weymouth ...
By the way, I heard that there's now a bus every evening at Trowbridge station waiting to act as a rail replacement service for this train. I'm not sure if that's true, but I do know that there's a sparkling new bus stop for "Rail replacement services" at the station there. I've seen it with my own eyes, and I was incredulous.
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Chris Street
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The 1743 Swindon - Southampton due 1944 calling at Melksham 1809 did not run at all in the end:
"17:43 Swindon to Southampton Central due 19:44
This train has been cancelled. This is due to earlier signalling problems."
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