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    TfL Oyster and Contactless app (iOS)

    The Oyster app is terrible. As is TfL Go tbh!
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    Reading - Paddington route set for overhaul - BBC report

    Seems to still be having issues at nearly 2200 this evening. Anyone have any updates? Yet another day of big delays.
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    Reading - Paddington route set for overhaul - BBC report

    Assuming this timetable will mean only 2tph on Sundays for Acton Main Line, Hanwell and (potentially) West Ealing?
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    Elizabeth Line - future extensions?

    They definitely need to find a way to add more services on the Western branch. Very heavily loaded in the peaks with some stations only receiving 4tph.
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    London Overground line names announced

    Totally agree. 'Line' should be removed and it should read 'Elizabeth', 'Weaver', 'Lioness' etc etc. Consumers don't care. It's adding more words to maps than needed.
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    London Overground line names announced

    The updated tube map (whist hideously messy) will be better to help identify routes more quickly. I can't help but think the key needs some work, though. The use of a London Overground header, but not the same for the Underground is confusing, for example.
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    London Overground line names announced

    Do they need to include 'London Overground' in the announcements when you're actually onboard? Seems a bit OTT. Surely something along the lines of "This is a Mildmay line service to Richmond. The next station is Kew Gardens" should suffice
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    Is the section of gwml beteen Paddington and reading the worst maintained line in the country?

    Severe delays this morning due to a track fault at Heathrow. What’s worse is that TfL note the delays are only between Hayes and Heathrow, with a good service on the rest of the line - which is a load of rubbish when you see the list of cancellations across the western section.
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    New style for Elizabeth line platform departure screens?

    Looks like they’ve rolled out these screens to all of Tottenham Court Road. Not the prettiest in the world!
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    Is the section of gwml beteen Paddington and reading the worst maintained line in the country?

    Don’t understand why they couldn’t run into Paddington, is that not the contingency in these situations? I was travelling from Heathrow, departed on time at 0806, ended up getting kicked off at Southall at about 9am. Still seeing cancellations now at 1300
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    Is the section of gwml beteen Paddington and reading the worst maintained line in the country?

    Meltdown this morning too. Been stuck at Southall for around 30 minutes due to a broken down train in the core
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    Is the section of gwml beteen Paddington and reading the worst maintained line in the country?

    Should something more drastic now be done to help the performance of this line? I don’t know what, but if you were in charge, what would you do?
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    Why has GWR removed Slough from Cotswold Line services to PAD?

    Follow up question - is there a reason Slough is still managed GWR? I would assume that the majority of services are now TfL run?
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    Why has GWR removed Slough from Cotswold Line services to PAD?

    Slough station is GWR managed and branded, as far as I am aware.
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    'Bumping' - is it becoming a serious problem?

    In my experience, people fare evade by pushing the wide gates open. I haven’t seen it on a normal gate, these are quite resistant to pushing apart. Is there not a way that these could be replaced with something more sturdy? They’re so flimsy at the moment and so easy to push through.
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    New style for Elizabeth line platform departure screens?

    Agree, I also think that the line diagrams should show two different lines west of Paddington - one for the Reading service, and one for the Heathrow services.
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    GWML / Elizabeth line disruption due to OLE down near Paddington

    After nearly 4 hours onboard, as soon as we saw some people being led along the tracks, everyone just opened the doors and jumped out.
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    GWML / Elizabeth line disruption due to OLE down near Paddington

    As soon as they realised that trains wouldn't be moving for the foreseeable, the priority should have been to evacuate quickly and safely. If this was done within 1 hour, everyone would have been happy.
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    GWML / Elizabeth line disruption due to OLE down near Paddington

    I was on the train last night (as previously stated) and the reason people started to de-train was because of the lack of information. For hours we sat there in the dark. There were many Network Rail staff walking past the train with torches but not once did any of them use a megaphone (or even...
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    GWML / Elizabeth line disruption due to OLE down near Paddington

    Especially at the locations we had stopped! We could have walked back to Paddington high level! And to add insult to injury, I have been charged by TfL for not tapping out :lol:

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