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This afternoon I recieved an email containing a link from gwr asking about my current rail travel and how I see my rail travel in 6 months. Asking how often I currently and plan to commute What times of day How often I do / will work from home How often i do /will take leasure journeys The...

Whilst waiting for a delayed train I was going through my gwr delay repay account and in the past 12 months I have been delayed 53 times of 15 minutes or more. I am a regular traveller but is this level of delays normal across the network, am I very unlucky or is the line I take seen as a Non...

This week there are rail replacement buses replacing trains between marlow and maidenhead. This morning, 4 of us were waiting for the 0550 bus and there was 2 buses waiting. We asked the driver of one which bus leaves first and he said did. We all got on that bus. The other bus then left empty...

I plan on taking a peak EL service to Heathrow from Paddington next week I have a season ticket to marlow so basically only need a ticket from Hayes and Harlington to terminal 5 To get the cheapest fare do I need to actually exit a train at Hayes to tap in for the cheapest fare? Is there...

So to summarise. 3 people travelling together from maidenhead into London return. All off peak. will be using tube all day so will need a travel card. 1 person has a network rail card. I cant find the cheapest option. Is it groupsave? Contactless all 3? 2 x contactless and 1 x network card...

Not a good week for gwml. Train struck overhead wires at Hanwell. Nothing coming in or out of Paddington

There was a 2339 in todays strike timetable from Paddington to maidenhead on gwr which was showing in journey planners until yesterday. Checking timetablehistory it seems it was removed today from the timetable. If id turned up at Paddington to catch this would staff of had to get me a taxi...

Today the 0606 from marlow which is due to arrive in bourne end at 0613 went very slowly the entire journey arriving into bourne end at 0616 (although real train times says it arrived at 0613). Now on the train bourne end to maidenhead which is going incredibly slow and likely to miss the...

Reading my local paper today a man was caught and fined in court for both travelling from gerrards Cross to Marylebone and a 2nd offence of entering or exiting a station without passing through the barriers in the correct manner. What exactly does that mean ?

This morning it seems that trains heading into Paddington on the gwml are switching from mains onto the relief lines at Slough until Southall for the journey into Paddington. Trains are still running west bound on the mains. Anyone know why?

This is astrange question / observation. Internally at the doors on a 165 they have 2 buttons next to the door. One to open the door and one to close it. On both gwr and chilterns 165 sometimes the open button is the top one of the two buttons (with the close being at the bottom) and sometimes...

This morning at 0655 there was a member of cleaning staff being abused verbally by a member of the public due to the member of the public losing his phone in the toilets. The cleaning member of staff kept completely calm despite the man being right in his face and kicking the sweeper / broom of...

I took the marlow branch today as I do 10 times a week. Usually you can buy tickets on the train but today there was revenue protection who issued a penalty notice to someone who didn't have a ticket (not me as I have a season ticket). There are signs up saying it is a compulsory ticket area...

I had completely forgot about this until I just recieved my generic cut and paste reply from gwr complaints department. On 16th March (I think) I caught the 1556 from Paddington with the aim to connect to the marlow single track branch. The 1556 was delayed on journey so arrived approx 4...

Every weekday i get the 16.50 from Paddington to maidenhead connecting onwards to Marlow Today this train was cancelled ( cancelled well in advance due to the storm) so I left work early to get the 16.43 from Paddington arriving into Marlow 30 minutes later than I would of done if I'd got the...

I need to do the above journey (well technically from marlow but have a season ticket for the first bit) and have been checking for the past few weeks for advance tickets to go on sale but nothing yet. When / if do you expect cross country to release advance tickets ? Any advice for cheapest...

Today my train to work (0633 from maidenhead) was cancelled due to broken down train in the Twyford area. This same broken down train is still in situ causing delays at 1730. Why can't the train be moved? In a side note I've lived in an area served by gwr for 5 weeks and commuting daily to...

Had some delays recently and asked my partner to collect me from alternative stations. Typing most places into Google will bring up an address and postcode but if If type in a railway station (for example "maidenhead railway station") Google shows train departure times but not postcode or address

Not sure if this is the correct forum but some advice needed. I'm selling my house and in the middle of a chain. All others in the chain are ready to exchange but my conveyancing solicitor is holding it up and I can't find out why (enquiries were replied to over 2 weeks ago). I've had numerous...

I found this article quite interesting. The driver concerned had 15 historic safety issues such as opening the doors on the wrong side and short stopping. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57969283.amp