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Thank you

Thanks, can you please let me have the address where I can see the timings?

I would be grateful for any information that would throw light on a couple of routing and timetabling problems that have affected this excursion severely. We had already been informed that the Duchess would not finish its winter overhaul in time to head the train when we were told that instead...

Thank you, so much for that theory then

One question that crossed my mind when I first heard about the incident was why such a long section of overhead had come down. I have noticed in the past that down bi-mode IETs have arrived into Reading under diesel power for some strange reason. Is it possible that the IET involved in this...

GWR said about 18 months ago that they would be used on the Henley and Windsor Branch lines in order to release the 165s currently allocated for transfer to the west country. I don’t know if that is still the plan.

Many thanks to all for the helpful replies on this issue (particularly the correction of my typo above). It remains to be seen what impact the slippage in Elizabeth Line running between Paddington and Reading will have as that would have replaced two 387 trains per hour in each direction so...

If I may join this discussion from a GWR perspective late (or non) arrival of the 769s will cause some serious problems. As you may remember DfT came up with the brilliant idea of scrapping the new Heathrow Express depot at Langley in order to save £2M off the HST2 budget. The only problem was...