syorksdeano
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Wonder if Northern will take this opportunity for the promised deep clean
High Speed Services
On the following long-distance routes there will be 1 train per hour in both directions:
• between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads
• between London Paddington and Swansea
• between London Paddington and Worcester Foregate Street
• between London Paddington and Plymouth*
*Please note: Services between London Paddington and Plymouth will alternate between a stopping service in the first hour, calling at Newbury, Pewsey, Westbury and Castle Cary (between 23-28 March, due to planned engineering work, this service will terminate at Castle Cary) and a fast service between London Paddington – Taunton – Plymouth in the second hour.
An hourly shuttle service will operate between Penzance and Plymouth with a varying calling pattern to intermediate stations.
A two hourly shuttle will operate between Swindon and Gloucester.
London and Thames Valley
An hourly service will operate on the following routes:
• between Reading and Basingstoke
• between Didcot Parkway and Oxford
• between Reading and Redhill
• between Reading and Newbury / Bedwyn
• between London Paddington and Didcot Parkway
The following branch lines will operate with a reduced service with amended timings:
• West Ealing – Greenford
• Slough – Windsor
• Maidenhead – Marlow/Bourne End
• Twyford – Henley-on-Thames
Avanti:
- Hourly Liverpool/Manchester/Glasgow/Wolves
- No Scottish via Brum service
- Chester 1tpd each way, Holyhead 1tpd each way (this is a surprising axe)
- 0.5tph Chester-Birmingham via Stafford (an odd addition!)
How has freight services been affected by the current situation?
Well the North Downs Line are not getting a Sunday service that is for sure.https://www.gwr.com/travel-updates/live-network-updates/disruption-information
GWR states Sunday service but WTT shows a Saturday service on Thames Valley on Monday
https://twitter.com/users_rail/status/1240964429254201347?s=19@grantshapps “We are...ensuring key worker heroes can get to their jobs to keep this nation running." Unless they have the bad luck to travel from #Wanborough, in which case they have no means to get to work at all. @SW_Help why can you not ask @GWRHelp to add stops? #abandoned
@SW_Help please could we have an answer to the question? Your network map shows GWR services running through #Wanborough, but it is impossible to use them to get to and from work: four a day in each direction and not at practical times. Why can you not ask @GWRHelp to stop 1/hr?
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Kite buses are not a workable alternative for the vast majority of people who take the train because they run at the wrong end of the parish, unlike in Ash and Aldershot. Why are you not asking @GWRHelp to stop one train an hour at #Wanborough ?
Indeed, which isn't a Sunday service. That's all the point I was making, in case anyone through all Thames Valley services were a Sunday service from Monday.GWR North Downs will be hourly Redhill stopper from Monday
Depends on the sector. Some sectors are holding up well, others less so (eg aviation fuel!)
The Daventry - Inverness Bog Roll delivery being held up would add a certain level of surrealism to the the current situation!I am wondering if special security / monitoring arrangements are in hand for the Tesco trains. Thinking of 1963 .........
Looks like a full peak timetable has run on the GN side of TL
Given that many say that it's passengers that cause all the delays I hope everything ran to time
Thameslink are advertising short notice cancellations due to driver shortages will be happening until end of service on the 30th April, do they know something we don't?
Northern have just announced their revised timetable, and it certainly takes some reading and understanding
Everything between 5pm and 6pm Daisy Hill towards Wigan was showing cancelled today at the station, luckily finished work a little early and managed to catch one at 4:56 otherwise I would have been screwed again.
There were the planned cancellations but also all the services that were supposed to be still running were cancelled due to lack of drivers.
I am a key sector worker (Company manufactures medicine) but am expecting now total collapse of public transport at some point next week and so being unable to reach work.
I am wondering if special security / monitoring arrangements are in hand for the Tesco trains. Thinking of 1963 .........
Don’t think they are carrying bog roll. Should be ok.
GTR running Saturday service from 23/9 then Sunday service from 30/9. Totally understandable and better to go with something they can sustain just hope they have every train at maximum formation routes permitting
Been checking the SWR website but they have no information regarding their reduced timetable effective as of Monday. Is there anyone on here from SWR that might have some idea as to what their proposed service pattern will look like?
I have looked at XC on Monday and the Birmingham - Leicester stoppers have been cut. There are no additional stops added on the Birmingham - Stansted fasts. This leaves Hinckley, Narborough and South Wigston with a large gap in service outside the peaks where the Stansteds do sometimes stop. In the case of Hinckley there is a gap in trains towards Birmingham between 0809 and 1809 and towards Leicester, between 0857 and 1658.