GWR London Marylebone to Swansea, Carmarthen and Penzance journey times and stations passed

[Spursglory]

In December 2015 and May 2018, Great Western Railway ran services from London Marylebone to Swansea, Carmarthen and Penzance. What stations did the HSTs pass through (at what times), and how long was the journey time from Marylebone to Swansea; Marylebone to Carmarthen and Marylebone to Penzance?

 

[JonathanH]

Again, your best bet is to use the forum's search facility for anything posted about it at the time.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Again, your best bet is to use the search facility.

Which one?

 

[JonathanH]

Which one?

On this forum, sorry.

Posts like https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...and-bristol-temple-meads.154197/#post-3129820 yielded by searching for Banbury, GWR and HST.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

On this forum, sorry.

Posts like https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...and-bristol-temple-meads.154197/#post-3129820 yielded by searching for Banbury, GWR and HST.

Interesting stuff but does that old thread (from 2017) specifically answer the OP's query, which related to 2015 and 2018?

 

[JonathanH]

Interesting stuff but does that old thread (from 2017) specifically answer the OP's query, which related to 2015 and 2018?

Probably not but it is an indication, trying to be helpful, that searching the forum can yield results in some cases, particularly when requesting information about timings of services in the past for which there may not have been any published timetables (other than those in journey planners / open data sites). The advanced search facility includes the possibility of limiting the period of the search.

 

[30907]

Interesting stuff but does that old thread (from 2017) specifically answer the OP's query, which related to 2015 and 2018?

Using GWR Banbury (remembering that a new running signal was installed ther to permit the reversal!) as search terms I got this:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gwr-diversions-into-marylebone-waterloo.124686/#post-2404568
So via Banbury and xx32 from MYB....in 2015.

Using GWR+ Marylebone I get this:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gwr-diversions-5-7-may-hsts.163960/#post-3450182
Suggests they went via Bicester Village once it was possible. Unfortunately the RTT links have expired after 4 years

 

[Mcr Warrior]

That should be more helpful for the OP, who is relatively new to the Forum.