Exeter to Cheltenham Spa in March help

[hst2cornwall]

Hi, I'm making my usual trip from Worcester to truro in march and when I Booked my disabled persons travel assistance I found out that on the return, the leg from Exeter to Cheltenham takes an extra hour. I assume this is due to engineering work booked for that saturday, (29/03/2014) Does anyone know what route the XC service from exeter would be taking that means it takes an extra hour into Cheltenham? The details are, 10.41 FGW Truro to Exeter St Davids, 13.24 Exeter St Davids to Cheltenham Spa, then i will catch the next available service into Worcester Shrub Hill. Seeing as I have already bought my tickets, is there an alternative route I could take to cut the journey time? I don't want to change at Bristol for Worcester because that service is a 2 car local and I can't reserve seats, and with 2 of us, 2 guide dogs and a baby plus suit case we need seats really. Thanks in advance.

 

[marky7890]

Looking on Realtimetrains the train is going to Cheltenham via Newport and Gloucester, so I presume the Bristol Parkway - Cheltenham bit of line will be closed.

 

[CallySleeper]

Your train will be running via Newport and Chepstow to Gloucester.

 

[marky7890]

From Cheltenham Spa the next train to Worcester would leave at 17:38 and arrive at 18:16 (Worcester Shrub Hill) or 18:20 (Worcester Foregate Street).

However a quicker route would be to get off at Newport then catch the 15:36 train (Cardiff Central to Wrexham General) changing at Hereford then catching the 16:40 from Hereford to Worcester Foregate Street which arrives at 17:21.

 

[hst2cornwall]

Thanks for that info, i just saw that it calls at newport. I think we will end up staying on it until cheltenham and then maybe get a taxi back from there, you never know it might even turn out to be a HST. Hoping to move back down to Falmouth soon Plus I've never travelled that route from bristol via newport and chepstow.
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Just had a quick look on red spotted hanky where i bought the tickets in the first place and for some reason they are only giving me a 16.33 option for returning from Truro on March 29th? I'll try breaking the journey down into legs and see what they come up with. They always try and get me to change at Plymouth and bristol on the return, which is why I have to buy the tickets separately.