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Post by melikepie on Apr 8, 2015 12:26:11 GMT
Due to engineering works on Sunday, one train an hour (departing half past each hour) will travel from Paddington up the New North Line (next to the Central Line) up to Banbury, reverse, call at Oxford and then carry on a normal towards Wales.
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Post by wimblephil on Apr 8, 2015 18:17:27 GMT
Thanks for the info! I was at Greenford station on Monday and saw a train using this line and wondered which ones were doing so.
Also due to the works, FGW trains will be running to/from Penzance from/to London Waterloo, over the SWML... something that also took me by surprise when one went whizzing past Wimbledon station on Monday!
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Post by sawb on Apr 8, 2015 20:18:50 GMT
Where will the Waterloo to Cornwall trains join the Great Western, Reading or Exeter?
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Post by melikepie on Apr 8, 2015 20:45:13 GMT
West of England trains will travel once an hour from Waterloo via Basingstoke, Salisbury and Westbury
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Post by marri260 on Apr 10, 2015 22:36:21 GMT
Some FGW services will be diverted into Marylebone this coming Christmas aswell, although there are only 2 platfoms there long enough to accomodate a HST set!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2015 21:34:58 GMT
Thanks for the info! I was at Greenford station on Monday and saw a train using this line and wondered which ones were doing so. Also due to the works, FGW trains will be running to/from Penzance from/to London Waterloo, over the SWML... something that also took me by surprise when one went whizzing past Wimbledon station on Monday! I'm glad I came across this! We use the supermarket next to the tracks at Wimbledon every week (strategically parking the car at the far end, facing the tracks for maximum exposure) and I saw a FGW 43 trundle past. Was about to pipe up and ask why this had happened. As a follow up question.. Are the FGW drivers accompanied by someone in the cab (possibly a SWT driver) who knows the route, speed limits, signals etc, or do they just pick it up as they go along? Or do they just have to do some homework first? |
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Post by domh245 on Apr 19, 2015 21:49:45 GMT
Train drivers will never ever drive over a route they aren't competent on, and by competence we're talking about signing the route - which usually involves knowing every signal, speed restriction, gradient and more over that route. Whilst FGW might try and get some information about the route to the drivers doing those turns in advance, they would more than likely just arrange for them to be route conducted by an SWT driver. I believe that these trains ran in the place of some of the usual West of England Services, and so the drivers that would have been on these would have been sent to conduct the FGW drivers.
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