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This is also what was being told to passengers at Swindon. It was suggested there had been a total failure in the affected area.

Phew, I got lucky and a service has been put on Didcot to Swansea. At least there’s some attempt being made at running around the affected area.

Interestingly the maps on Open Train Times are still showing a block. I’m not confident I’ll be moving anywhere fast. Staff here are still reporting significant delays and no time to resume services.

I’m stuck at Swindon and overheard 10 minutes ago that nothing is likely to move in any direction for at least an hour, possibly longer. This came from a dispatcher who was talking to a member of train crew. I need to be in Wales tonight so I’m stuck here for the foreseeable, but at least I...

According to the Arriva Trains Fails page on fb, it's back in service tomorrow https://www.facebook.com/ATFails/photos/pcb.1957056447891558/1957056374558232/?type=3&theater

If anyone was planning on watching proceedings from midday, RTT suggests things have started earlier than originally planned.

An interesting article published today regarding 'plans' for a new Cardiff Parkway station at St Mellons. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/plans-revealed-huge-new-development-12247891 Given the size of the business park planned, and the fact that St Mellons seems to...

Swindon - Bristol Parkway has continued to be a bit dodgy all day. It would appear that a diversion via Bath has been in place again for parts of the day. NRE continue to report that South Wales services are being diverted but 1B46 appears not to have been. It has however crawled through the...

Latest from GWR is that Swindon - Bristol Parkway and Swindon - Bath are both closed. At a guess the Swansea services must be going via Gloucester now. https://twitter.com/GWRHelp/status/800729245966303232

If services weren't already going to be rammed to the point of bursting towards Cardiff today with both international rugby and football on one day, it's now been announced that a person has been hit by a train at Pencoed. I imagine that a lot of services will now take the VoG diversion, but...

Not knowing this part of the country at all, it wasn't until I looked on RTT that I realised it's only supposed to be 20 minutes between the first two stops. It's precisely times like this that a lack of information will lead to tempers flaring, especially when coupled with crowded conditions...

I travelled westbound from Cardiff this afternoon, luckily on one of the first trains to be allowed back on the mainline. Unfortunately the information screens on the concourse all failed and there was a serious lack of information available to passengers. As I travel daily and had seen the...

Agreed. I definitely find the 1740 from Cardiff to West Wales busier on a Friday. It's always full, usually to the point of leaving passengers standing on the platform. I've lost count of the number of times I've spent over an hour sat in the luggage rack in the absence of a seat. For what...

Yesterday's excitement was the discovery of an unexploded wartime bomb between Newport and Cardiff just before rush hour. Luckily for me I work right next to Cardiff's coach station and £6 later I was on my way home far earlier than I would otherwise have been. The excitement came to an end...

And either way there's always the somewhat alternative "London Underground" by Amateur Transplants :lol: