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Reminds me that when the 3-car 165s were first delivered, the centre cars had no speed limiters and so very high speeds were achieved.

Yes, par for the course with Network Rail. 3 mins late at Kintbury. Signaller at Didcot decided to put 1K09 in its booked platform (2) at Newbury (the previous days they started it from platform 1 and screwed up the 1J73 instead). Usual loss of time to Reading where there was no platform so...

Why not retime it to start 0457 and run 6 mins earlier to Newbury, give it 6 mins extra for slowing through the up platform at Newbury and some recovery time from Cogload to Hungerford where 1A73 regularly loses 3-4 minutes for no obvious reason that exacerbates the clash with 1K09, and give it...

Then why don't the STP train planners do something about it and retime 1A73 and other delayed services properly? No wonder the Western Route is in the railway equivalent of "Special Measures".

Still easily the worse performer into Paddn in the morning peak, NIL RT and 27% PPM with an average lateness of over 19 mins in the last six months. It has managed a 5 and an 8 late arrivals this week, some of the best this year. I think back to B.R. days when its equivalent 1A19 0507...

Revised advice: Network Rail will close all 4 lines between Reading and London Paddington between 17:45-19:00 to affect removal of the tree and associated works, this will lead to disruption on all routes that operate between Reading and London Paddington. Services from the West Country via...

GWR Journey Check: Network Rail will close all 4 lines between Reading and London Paddington between 16:15 and 17:15 to affect (sic) removal of the tree and associated works, this will lead to disruption on all routes that operate between Reading and London Paddington. Services from the West...

Continuing today - GWR JourneyCheck reports: An issue has arisen with the state of some trees at the side of a cutting between Twyford and Reading where an unstable area of surrounding earth has been observed. Owing to its location it is not an issue that can be easily resolved and until the...

Thanks, that explains it. You would think a long-term infrastructure problem would have been reflected by the train planners with an STP alteration to 1A73 or 1K09 as the present timetable simply doesn't work. And the signallers at TVSC each do something different; today 1A73 has been given a...

This appears to be out of use as non-stopping up trains are diverted via the Up Platform Loop (platform 2) rather than their programmed Up Through Line. The TD on Traksy doesn't show the usual BLOC or BKD normally used by TVSC. Any ideas what the problem is, please? Frequently causes delays to...

Almost certainly not permitted these days by the DfT that controls TOC expenditure.

This has happened before; XR concentrates on points closest to the central core and makes no attempt to provide any sort of service west of Hayes & Harlington. I have noted instances of no service westwards from West Drayton for up to three hours in disruption. West Drayton has its fifth...

Not really. GWR London service reduced to hourly with all the retimings east of STJ. Should have zero impact coupled with Portsmouth service starting from Bristol should make things less congested not more. Cardiff Central last night when I arrived for the 1623 Swansea-Paddn was a disgrace...

But the costs you claim from NRIL under Schedule 8 go back to the DfT as do the costs of the 30 minutes overtime incurred by the driver if he works overtime, except the TOC perhaps gets its 1% mark-up (don't know on the last point). There does seem to be a problem with West of England services...

A somewhat cynical view I think. Ticket sales income or Delay Repay costs surely come to and from the Treasury. Nothing to do with GWR. And any Schedule 8 payments from NRIL surely offset contract payments from the DfT? GWR (and other TOCs) are financially neutral in these circumstances.

Running east from Reading to Acton then to Willesden for the Midlands, North and North West

And Slough a big loser. No fast trains to Reading and beyond. No non-stop trains to Paddington in the morning peak or from Paddington in the evening peak. Standing end-to-end from Tottenham Court Road to West Drayton in the evening peak on unsuitable 345 units.

Mains westbound to Dolphin then Reliefs and vv. Platforms 2/3 at Slough out of use.

But two out on a 5-car set could be.

Another problem with GW IETs is the increasing number of sets with broken toilets. Today's JourneyCheck lists about twenty trains with one or more out of use toilets.