Why have most of the Pad to Oxford services vanished, Is Hanborough not to the north of Oxford it was last time I went there.
I am looking on real time trains a few Cotswold services are running via Swindon not Oxford Service to Oxford should be half hourly, not happening.
I think the point cygnus44 is trying to make is, why are there no additional hourly London-Oxford trains running in the paths of those that would normally run through? There must be crew and stock available to do this, albeit not running end to end.
I think.
Is it too hard to grasp that most of the trains to and from the Cotswold Line that are currently 'missing' between London and Oxford are normally operated by train crew based at Worcester?
And that operating the shuttle service between Worcester (and Malvern/Hereford on some trains) and Hanborough on Friday involved four IET sets, plus the crews to cover 18 hours of operations and probably a pilot on board between Charlbury and Hanboorough as well.
Sufficient resources, whether human or rolling stock, weren't available yesterday, so the shuttle had to be cut back to operating between Worcester and Moreton-in-Marsh only. It is running to Hanborough again today.
Where do you think IETs - and spare crews during a school half-term week when one or two GWR staff will be on holiday - are going to come from to fill in between Oxford and Paddington? Please enlighten us.
The failed brick wing wall is clearly more recent than the original bridge.
Everything is bodged up that’s why the system is failing. Last time anything was built properly Victoria was Monarch
It's clear is it? I'd suggest not, as it looks pretty much like all of the bridges along the Cotswold Line constructed to Brunel's designs in the late 1840s and early 1850s, whether built from brick or stone.
Plenty of them have needed running repairs to the masonry down the years - Victorian brick-making and mortar were not infallible, never mind embankment construction. Several have been replaced, including two between Moreton-in-Marsh and Kingham in the past few years, due to the arches over the track showing signs of weakening, which can probably be forgiven after 170 years.