One-off direct Gatwick-Basingstoke train?

[Murray J]

Assuming Real Time Trains is correct, it looks like the first Gatwick-Reading train tomorrow (Monday 18th March) is operating through to Basingstoke. Any idea if this has happened before?

Realtime Trains | 1V34 0511 Gatwick Airport to Basingstoke | 18/03/2024

Real-time train running information for 1V34 0511 departure from Gatwick Airport to Basingstoke on 18/03/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

I'm assuming that this is just a quick way of getting a train from running the Gatwick services the day before to running Basingstoke services on Monday without cancelling an early train on either service.

 

[PGAT]

There was a thread on this a couple weeks ago but the service was cancelled last minute

 

[Murray J]

There was a thread on this a couple weeks ago but the service was cancelled last minute

mmm I stumbled across that just after posting this. Hopefully it runs this time but we'll see...

 

[jammmmmsssssss]

It says on their journeycheck that it's cancelled due to a shortage of train crew

 

[embers25]

It ran on March 4.

https://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/L65679/2024-03-04

 

[Horizon22]

It would seem to me to be a simple way of combining what are usually two separate services at the beginning of the day (Gatwick - Reading & Reading - Basingstoke)

It says on their journeycheck that it's cancelled due to a shortage of train crew

The inward train had been cancelled in the early hours of the morning, thus no unit to start it from Gatwick. Looks like that whole diagram was uncovered from about 2000.

Realtime Trains | 1O96 0008 Blackwater to Gatwick Airport | 18/03/2024

Real-time train running information for 1O96 0008 departure from Blackwater to Gatwick Airport on 18/03/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

 

[MasterPhillips]

Usually happens when the North Downs from Reading is shut. (in this case on Sunday between Reading and North Camp)

I assume it’s just like a set swap between the routes which happens a lot just never by running it as a through service like this.