Confusion at Twyford!

[enginedin]

I was at Twyford station this evening (during rush-hour, so it was fairly busy). A Henley train arrived, but instead of using Platform 5, as is normal for the Henley branch, it came into Platform 4. All the regulars who were on Platform 5 were very confused that the train they were expecting hadn't arrived, until they noticed it had arrived at a different platform. However, that train, instead of forming the return shuttle to Henley, was then taken out of service. The train forming the return to Henley then also arrived into Platform 4, which turned Platform 4 into a bidirectional platform (presumably platform 5 can't be accessed from the mainline). These train movements caused the next (at least 2) trains to be ~10 mins late.

I don't use Twyford very often, but given everyone's confusion, I'd guess this doesn't happen very often?!

 

[jfollows]

https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/slough shows the bidirectional signalling at platform 4 and the lack of mainline access to the bay platform, indeed.

 

[class ep-09]

I was at Twyford station this evening (during rush-hour, so it was fairly busy). A Henley train arrived, but instead of using Platform 5, as is normal for the Henley branch, it came into Platform 4. All the regulars who were on Platform 5 were very confused that the train they were expecting hadn't arrived, until they noticed it had arrived at a different platform. However, that train, instead of forming the return shuttle to Henley, was then taken out of service. The train forming the return to Henley then also arrived into Platform 4, which turned Platform 4 into a bidirectional platform (presumably platform 5 can't be accessed from the mainline). These train movements caused the next (at least 2) trains to be ~10 mins late.

I don't use Twyford very often, but given everyone's confusion, I'd guess this doesn't happen very often?!

Probably unit swap - my guess for fuel and maintenance .

 

[JN114]

It was a unit swap, there were issues with the Peak Maidenhead - Bourne End train on Reading Depot, so the Henley was sent to Maidenhead to cover, and a train was sent from Reading to Twyford to backfill the Henleys.

It had to be done that way as the Bourne End needed to be a 2 car to enable it to go onto Marlows later, and the only 2 car remotely nearby that could be replaced with a 3 (which was available) was on the Henleys.