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A reason to hate First Great Western. Quoted from their website at 1521 today:
15:20 Hereford to London Paddington due 18:27
13:15 Wednesday 28 June 2006
This train will be started from Moreton-In-Marsh. It will no longer call at: Hereford, Ledbury, Colwall, Great Malvern, Malvern Link and Worcester Foregate Street. This is due to a technical fault on the train.
Note an error in that report that I noticed shortly after seeing it...Not sure? It doesn't include Worcester Shrub Hill, Pershore or Evesham in that list where it will no longer serve. I wonder if it's actually left yet, as it is currently 1524 when I write this...
In case you're interested, my reaction was "DUDE! BLOODY HELL!". That's worse by a long way than Central Trains' reputation for turning back trains ahead of their destination!
Other changes they've posted at 1524:
14:06 Penzance to London Paddington due 19:05 12:58 Wednesday 28 June 2006This train will be revised. It will additionally call at: Tiverton Parkway and Taunton.
15:00 Plymouth to London Paddington due 18:27 12:41 Wednesday 28 June 2006This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train failure.
16:00 Penzance to London Paddington due 21:20 12:39 Wednesday 28 June 2006This train will be started from Truro. It will no longer call at: Penzance, St Erth, Camborne and Redruth. This is due to an earlier train failure.
Only a couple of days ago FGW turned back the arriving HST for the 1655 from Cardiff to Paddington at...Bristol Parkway. What would any passengers arriving at Cardiff for it do? If they were there early enough, they would be forced to get the 1625. If they turned up a matter of minutes before the departure time (say 1651), then they'd have to get the 1725. Which is traditionally rammed normally, I dread to think what it would have been like the other day...Turning back a HST at Newport would be slightly less unreasonable, in that there are (relatively) frequent trains to Cardiff from there. But to start back at Bristol Parkway, that's dreadful.
Didn't First promise to run trains better than this when they took over all (bar Virgin and SWT) services in the the region? If this is their idea of doing so, I'm sorry but I'd rather have National Express Group back with their TOC name of Brunel Trains. Better yet, I'd rather have the old system back, with Wessex Trains, FGWL and FGW. That worked much better than this way of doing things.
All I can say is these two sentences:
- I'm glad I'm no longer claiming to be an FGW fan
- Words fail me...
15:20 Hereford to London Paddington due 18:27
13:15 Wednesday 28 June 2006
This train will be started from Moreton-In-Marsh. It will no longer call at: Hereford, Ledbury, Colwall, Great Malvern, Malvern Link and Worcester Foregate Street. This is due to a technical fault on the train.
Note an error in that report that I noticed shortly after seeing it...Not sure? It doesn't include Worcester Shrub Hill, Pershore or Evesham in that list where it will no longer serve. I wonder if it's actually left yet, as it is currently 1524 when I write this...
In case you're interested, my reaction was "DUDE! BLOODY HELL!". That's worse by a long way than Central Trains' reputation for turning back trains ahead of their destination!
Other changes they've posted at 1524:
14:06 Penzance to London Paddington due 19:05 12:58 Wednesday 28 June 2006This train will be revised. It will additionally call at: Tiverton Parkway and Taunton.
15:00 Plymouth to London Paddington due 18:27 12:41 Wednesday 28 June 2006This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train failure.
16:00 Penzance to London Paddington due 21:20 12:39 Wednesday 28 June 2006This train will be started from Truro. It will no longer call at: Penzance, St Erth, Camborne and Redruth. This is due to an earlier train failure.
Only a couple of days ago FGW turned back the arriving HST for the 1655 from Cardiff to Paddington at...Bristol Parkway. What would any passengers arriving at Cardiff for it do? If they were there early enough, they would be forced to get the 1625. If they turned up a matter of minutes before the departure time (say 1651), then they'd have to get the 1725. Which is traditionally rammed normally, I dread to think what it would have been like the other day...Turning back a HST at Newport would be slightly less unreasonable, in that there are (relatively) frequent trains to Cardiff from there. But to start back at Bristol Parkway, that's dreadful.
Didn't First promise to run trains better than this when they took over all (bar Virgin and SWT) services in the the region? If this is their idea of doing so, I'm sorry but I'd rather have National Express Group back with their TOC name of Brunel Trains. Better yet, I'd rather have the old system back, with Wessex Trains, FGWL and FGW. That worked much better than this way of doing things.
All I can say is these two sentences:
- I'm glad I'm no longer claiming to be an FGW fan
- Words fail me...