It seems that the shortage of traincrew at weekends might be seeping into Monday mornings too. 0524 2P11 OXF-PAD cancelled today — JourneyCheck says “shortage of drivers”, RTT says no guard … well, either way, hey ho.
Aside: still, at least when GWR management has failed to allocate staff (and/or late-notice cover) to some of its services, we can rely on the hardware used to operate those which do run to keep working, right? No, the 0542 OXF-PAD 1P03, was cancelled on arrival at DID (having done what seemed like an emergency stop shortly after leaving Radley, followed by several minutes of first the driver, then both him and the other member of GWR staff on board, fiddling about with something in the cab — AWS? — before getting going again), reported by RTT as M0, “problem with the on-board safety systems”.
The third OXF-PAD fast service this morning, 0559 1P05, managed to get all the way to Paddington, two minutes late.