SWT Engineering work this weekend

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On the Saturday I notice two trains an hour from Guildford take 1 hour 5 minutes or 6 minutes and one takes 47 minutes and overtakes the one taking an hour and 5 minutes. They all stop at Clapham Junction and Woking.

Is the 47 minute one a mistake?

The last two lines if the below quote seem to be incomplete when it comes to information.

https://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/p...A2961D485A910DD112884D122F/?utm_source=Direct

The following trains will run to and from London Waterloo but make additional stops or use alternative routes with longer journey times. Most services will run to revised timetables.
Many long distance services will be diverted between Clapham Junction and Woking with longer journey times.

An hourly service will run between London Waterloo and Weymouth, running via Guildford, Havant and Fareham. Where possible, passengers for Southampton and beyond should use these trains.
An hourly service will run between London Waterloo and Alton.
Between London Waterloo and Portsmouth via Haslemere. A reduced service will run on this route.
Between London Waterloo and Reading.
Between London Waterloo and Windsor & Eton Riverside.

 

[infobleep]

Yes looking at Real Time Trains the 54 minutes passed is routed via Surbtion and Wimbledon. However that line is closed.

 

[fairysdad]

Further disdaining of the SWT website from me: no mention of the Epsom line on the disruption page at all, but the NR journey planner tells me half the journey will be on a bus. I also bet that, like a couple of weeks back, on Saturday and Sunday itself, the website will make no mention of it on the 'live travel update' section of their homepage or on the 'journey check' page either.

(ETA: They do, I suppose, mention bus services between Clapham and Effingham Junctions, but given that trains can go two ways between there it's not exactly clear that it includes the Epsom line; and what about services to Dorking?)

Can it really be that hard to have correct and timely information on their site?

I feel like going to my station on Saturday and act surprised that there's a bus instead of a train because I'd visited their website beforehand with no immediate information given to me without having to delve somewhat deep into their site.

(I've also got to make sure that I'm not working the next weekend that SWT decide to close the Epsom line!)

 

[Kite159]

I can't remember who mentioned the engineering works for the 24/25th March at Woking, but thanks.

As I had previously purchased advance tickets for the 08:03 Leeds (which is a connection with the arrival of the 05:27 Grateley to Waterloo) I would have been stuck when that train terminated at Basingstoke, although RTT or NRE are making no mention of the 23:40 [even from Basingstoke], so looks like I shall be driving to Basingstoke that day.