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Mystery train at Ascot

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When I arrived at Ascot station today (25th August) at 17:11 there was a pair of 458s sat in platform 2. Around 17:15 they headed off in the London direction (unusual for this platform?). When checking real time trains even in the detailed view I could not find any mention of this mystery service. Does anyone know what it was?
 
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Perhaps an ad-hoc ECS service. SWR had some signalling issues in that area today.
 
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I think this is related to the signalling issues at Wraysbury, damage from a tree with Windsor trains terminating at Staines. I think this happened yesterday and is expected until end of service today.
When I passed through Ascot this morning at 0910 there was also a 458 on platform 2. I assumed at first this was 2C17 but we passed that half way to Sunningdale. But all is revealed on RTT today.

The Windsor trains are diverted to Ascot as ECS where they wait and then go back to Staines. Seems a long diversion to me, but that is how they have done it. It can and does delay some of the Reading trains.
 
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