It's in the printed GBTT (yes, I know that's not infallible), and the pdf on the GWR website, and the timetable poster at the south entrance of Reading West station (I didn't check the main entrance), but when I tried to board it there today it wasn't on the dot-matrix boards, and it isn't in RTT or (looking at tomorrow) NRE. According to NRE, all other Basingstoke-Reading trains between 17.00 and 19.00 are as in the pdf, leading to Mortimer having gaps between successive trains of 20, 66 and 13 minutes. I presume there's a missing working in the opposite direction as well. Presumably there's a reason for this but, quite apart from the general undesirability of removing trains that are in the published timetable except at planned timetable changes, if one had to go the 18.25, which has an alternative less than 15 minutes later, would seem less of a loss. Does anyone know what the reason is?
Since writing the previous paragraph, I've noticed that the train does appear in NRE for next Tuesday. Have they just withdrawn it for this week so they can pretend it isn't cancelled?
Since writing the previous paragraph, I've noticed that the train does appear in NRE for next Tuesday. Have they just withdrawn it for this week so they can pretend it isn't cancelled?
