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Gloucester to Worcester Parkway Closed this Weekend - As Is the M5 Passing Gloucester!

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The M5 section east of Gloucester is closed this weekend (17 & 18 October 2026) meaning traffic is diverting to other routes. At the same time, Network Rail Engineering work means that the railway between Gloucester & Worcestershire Parkway is also closed with buses being used to transport train passengers. Looks like TFW are using old 2 coach 153 sprinters on the route between Gloucester & Cardiff and no Cross Country trains on the line via Chepstow.

You really could not make it up: National Highways England and Network Rail not talking with each other.
 
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Envoy said:
The M5 section east of Gloucester is closed this weekend (17 & 18 October 2026) meaning traffic is diverting to other routes. At the same time, Network Rail Engineering work means that the railway between Gloucester & Worcestershire Parkway is also closed with buses being used to transport train passengers. Looks like TFW are using old 2 coach 153 sprinters on the route between Gloucester & Cardiff and no Cross Country trains on the line via Chepstow.
You really could not make it up: National Highways England and Network Rail not talking with each other.
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I remember a time under BR when a closure at Gloucester had Bristol-Birmingham trains diverted via the Severn Tunnel, Hereford and Great Malvern to Worcester (including the then mail/sleeper Plymouth-Scotland).
 
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LNW-GW Joint said:
I remember a time under BR when a closure at Gloucester had Bristol-Birmingham trains diverted via the Severn Tunnel, Hereford and Great Malvern to Worcester (including the then mail/sleeper Plymouth-Scotland).
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In later years Oxford/Banbury was the diversion for the Cheltenham route and in the mid 80s that even extended to Oxford - Bletchley.
 
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travelling to Cheltenham today, weirdly seems they are not running any of the Pad-chelt trains to Gloucester (for people to take the 94 bus to Cheltenham), making the least changes route via Worcester annoyingly
 
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