Bristol delays/cancellations

[Henbury Loop]

There appears to be a lot of cancellations on London/Swansea Bristol Parkway/Manchester services today.

Replacement buses are in operation and passengers being terminated at Patchway?

Any idea what's going on?

 

[NX]

Engineering block overrun.

NX

 

[PHILIPE]

Extract from NRES Website. This is always my first port of call to find details of ant disruptions:-

Disruption between Bristol Parkway and Swindon expected until end of service
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Disruption between #BristolParkway and Swindon / Cheltenham Spa nationalrail.co.uk/service_disrup…
12 Nov 15 - 10:15
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#BristolParkway Services between Swansea and London Paddington will call at Patchway instead of Bristol Parkway. Buses will run to connect.
12 Nov 15 - 09:30
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#BristolParkway Passengers may use Arriva Trains Wales services between Cardiff Central and Cheltenham Spa. twt.lt/nqdd
12 Nov 15 - 07:57
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#BristolParkway Engineers are on site working to resolve the problem. Apologies for the disruption. Updates to follow. @na…
12 Nov 15 - 07:34
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#BristolParkway Disruption between Bristol Parkway and Swindon expected until end of service twt.lt/nqdd
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Incident created
12/11/2015 03:47
Last updated
12/11/2015 14:27
Route affected
DownloadMapof route afected
CrossCountry between Penzance / Plymouth / Bristol Temple Meads / Paignton and Newcastle / Edinburgh / Manchester Piccadilly / Aberdeen / Glasgow Central
Great Western Railway between London Paddington and Swansea / Cardiff Central and also between Westbury / Southampton Central / Brighton / Weymouth and Great Malvern / Gloucester

Train operator affected
CrossCountry; Great Western Railway;
Description
Emergency engineering works near Bristol Parkway and are causing disruption between Bristol Parkway and Swindon.
The following alterations will apply:
CrossCountry services are being diverted, not calling at Bristol Parkway
Services between Cardiff Central and London Paddington will not run
Services between Swansea and London Paddington will be diverted, extending journey times by up to 35 minutes
Services between Swansea and London Paddington will not call at Bristol Parkway but will call additionally at Patchway
Buses will run between Patchway and Bristol Parkway

Trains are now able to run normally between Bristol Parkway and Cheltenham Spa.
This is expected to continue until the end of service.
Alternative travel options
Passengers may use Arriva Trains Wales services between Cardiff Central and Cheltenham Spa.
Great Western Railway passengers may use CrossCountry services on any reasonable route.
You can follow this incident using the hashtag #BristolParkway
To check your journey, please use the National Rail Enquiries real-time Journey Planner

 

[HowardGWR]

I saw the ludicrous nature of this PR put out. So somehow trains from Swansea to Paddington will run but not between Cardiff and Paddington.

This is in the Bristol Post

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Train-...way-Swindon/story-28163078-detail/story.html?

The CrossCountry route between Penzance and Glasgow and the Great Western Railway between London Paddington and Cardiff Central is disrupted due to emergency engineering works near Bristol Parkway and Swindon and Cheltenham Spa.

Trains are unable to run between Bristol Parkway and Gloucester. This will be the case until around 2pm.

Great Western Railway passengers travelling between Bristol Parkway and Gloucester should use CrossCountry services.

And passengers for Yate and Cam and Dursley should use replacement buses which are running between Bristol Parkway and Gloucester.

CrossCountry services are being diverted and are not calling at Bristol Parkway while services between Cardiff Central and London Paddington will not run at all.

Services between Swansea and London Paddington will be diverted – this will extend the journey time by up to 35 minutes – and services between Swansea and London will not stop at Bristol Parkway but will stop at Patchway.

There will be a bus service between Patchway and Bristol Parkway.

Work out that lot!

 

[WelshBluebird]

I saw the ludicrous nature of this PR put out. So somehow trains from Swansea to Paddington will run but not between Cardiff and Paddington.

This is in the Bristol Post

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Train-...way-Swindon/story-28163078-detail/story.html?



Work out that lot!

What that probably means (and looking at NRE confirms it) is that the Cardiff - Paddington services are being cancelled but the Swansea - Paddington ones are running, presumably so less services are having to run through the diverted route.

 

[D1009]

What that probably means (and looking at NRE confirms it) is that the Cardiff - Paddington services are being cancelled but the Swansea - Paddington ones are running, presumably so less services are having to run through the diverted route.

I'd worked that one out, but the wording on the NRES website is very poor as it could be taken to read that no trains were running between Cardiff and London. I know Cardiff is on the railway line between Swansea and London, but does everybody?

Looking at RTT it appears no trains operated between Westerleigh Jn and Wootton Bassett Jn between midnight and 1500, but XC were not affected until around 1100. Do I take it that the problem was with Westerleigh Jn itself, or was there more than one problem?

 

[High Dyke]

Looking at RTT it appears no trains operated between Westerleigh Jn and Wootton Bassett Jn between midnight and 1500, but XC were not affected until around 1100. Do I take it that the problem was with Westerleigh Jn itself, or was there more than one problem?

AFAIK an engineering train has run through the points at Westerleigh Jct during a possesion of the line.

 

[The Planner]

Talk of a broken rail at Westerleigh too?

 

[PHILIPE]

What that probably means (and looking at NRE confirms it) is that the Cardiff - Paddington services are being cancelled but the Swansea - Paddington ones are running, presumably so less services are having to run through the diverted route.

That is exactly what it means. The hourly Paddington to Cardiffs and return were cancelled and the Swanseas diverted via Bath and calling at Patchway instead of Bristol Parkway with bustitution between the two. Although XC may have run via Westerleigh Jn, GWR trains did not run between Bristol Parkway and Gloucester.

 

[Parallel]

I did read earlier that local Great Malvern to Weymouth services were capped at Gloucester due to track problems (points failure listed on journe check) and a replacement train was sent from Bristol to continue to Weymouth. That train then developed a fault and then terminated early at Yeovil Pen Mill (and restarted there for the next journey)

It looks like some of the trains sent from Bristol were probably due maintenance! There has been an abnormally large amount of train faults reported today.

 

[wensley]

AFAIK an engineering train has run through the points at Westerleigh Jct during a possesion of the line.

Correct, possibly two!

 

[ValleyLines142]

I saw the 0601 Glasgow to Plymouth held at Yate yesterday, for almost an hour.

0758 Swansea to London cancelled (0855 off Cardiff). 150120 on 0900 Cardiff to Plymouth very busy yesterday as staff at Cardiff were telling pax to take this to Temple Meads and catch 1000 to Padd from there.

Services still disrupted in the evening. Had 220011 on the 1705 Manchester to Cardiff last night and left Temple Meads about 25 minutes late.

 

[BestWestern]

Correct, possibly two!

Which would suggest we're looking at an 'infrastructure issue' (i.e stop boards or possession boundary problems) rather than a Driver issue....?!

 

[Radedamer]

Quote:
The CrossCountry route between Penzance and Glasgow and the Great Western Railway between London Paddington and Cardiff Central is disrupted due to emergency engineering works near Bristol Parkway and Swindon and Cheltenham Spa.

Trains are unable to run between Bristol Parkway and Gloucester. This will be the case until around 2pm.

Great Western Railway passengers travelling between Bristol Parkway and Gloucester should use CrossCountry services.
Presumably this means use XC to Cheltenham then change for Gloucester.

And passengers for Yate and Cam and Dursley should use replacement buses which are running between Bristol Parkway and Gloucester.

CrossCountry services are being diverted and are not calling at Bristol Parkway while services between Cardiff Central and London Paddington will not run at all.

Services between Swansea and London Paddington will be diverted – this will extend the journey time by up to 35 minutes – and services between Swansea and London will not stop at Bristol Parkway but will stop at Patchway.

There will be a bus service between Patchway and Bristol Parkway.
What I can't work out is why some service appear to stopping at Parkway and some are stopping at Patchway instead. Very badly written, I have to agree.

 

[D1009]

It looks like some of the trains sent from Bristol were probably due maintenance! There has been an abnormally large amount of train faults reported today.

That tends to happen this time of year due to wheel flats.
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What I can't work out is why some service appear to stopping at Parkway and some are stopping at Patchway instead.

The contingency plan which is implemented if there are problems between Bristol Parkway and Wootton Bassett provides for some morning peak services to reverse at Bristol Parkway before running via Bath, and others running direct from Patchway to Filton.

 

[wensley]

Which would suggest we're looking at an 'infrastructure issue' (i.e stop boards or possession boundary problems) rather than a Driver issue....?!

All depends if how the track is laid out and where the points are in relation to one another.

 

[BestWestern]

All depends if how the track is laid out and where the points are in relation to one another.

For two trains to separately SPAD the stop boards or leave a possession without authorisation would be rather unfortunate?! The points were on the mainline at Westerleigh Junction, protected by signals from all directions.

 

[wensley]

For two trains to separately SPAD the stop boards or leave a possession without authorisation would be rather unfortunate?! The points were on the mainline at Westerleigh Junction, protected by signals from all directions.

One train, two point ends to the best of my knowledge?