Gas leak at Didcot 23/09/26

[CR165022]

At Bournemouth station at 16:15 today we saw with our own eyes a XC arriving. Nowhere on RTT can I see where it had come from, according to all the sources I’ve checked if it was the 11:25 ex-MAN PIC then it was terminated at Oxford.

Did it perhaps continue ECS?

Will be this service from Reading. XC have been splitting the services, regular timetabled ones being cut short on the Oxford side and VST 1Z services on the reading side.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:18382/2026-09-23/detailed#allox_id=0

 

[LW84]

I am fairly sure XC have run some services from Reading to Bournemouth on Wednesday (as per above)

I can see the last two southbound services on XC between Oxford and Reading (22:16 at Oxford onto Southampton C / 23:16, with the start now B'ham NS at 22:03) are due to run through.

 

[800301]

Still nothing going through at present although I'd imagine service alterations that have already been made can't be reverted that quickly

Any trains that do go via Didcot will NOT have their calling patterns changed, they for some reason are keeping to the advertised train plan tonight

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

A friend is supposed to be travelling from Reading to Cardiff tomorrow and is very worried about this. Are there any alternative routes he could try? National Rail Enquiries journey planner is extremely unhelpful as it just lists all the cancelled services.

Reading to Cardiff was my old uni commute.
Reading to Westbury, Westbury to Cardiff, is what I'd do in these circumstances.

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Gave way to the rare sight of CrossCountry using the Oxford bays with Manchester services starting there, with a Cotswold shuttle on through Platform 3 and a Bristol service on through Platform 4.





Images show a XC Voyager parked in Oxford’s bay platform 1.
It is dark and there is a Marylebone 168 in bay platform 2, and a Hereford 802 in bay platform 3.

 

[moogal]

Just seen this:

UPDATE: Rail services to resume as normal on Thursday after Didcot gas leak repaired

Rail services will operate again between Reading and Swindon on Thursday 24 September as engineers from gas distribution company SGN have successfully repaired a gas leak near railway land in the Didcot area.

www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk

Relevant part:

Rail services will operate again between Reading and Swindon on Thursday 24 September as engineers from gas distribution company SGN have successfully repaired a gas leak near railway land in the Didcot area.


Network Rail and GWR expect to run a normal level of service from Thursday 24 September, following a day of severe disruption to services between Reading and Swindon.


While most services are expected to run to their usual timetable, passengers are advised that some short-notice changes may still occur as GWR works to fully restore normal operations across the network. Passengers are urged to check their journey before travelling.