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Cardiff Central, 19th / 20th September..... 21/09/2015 at 09:54 #76094
DaveHarries
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Some huge delays into and out of Cardiff Central after the rugby game on 19th September with large delays (in one case a delay of 143 minutes) including -in at least one case - a train from Bristol taking 40 minutes to get from Marshfield to Cardiff Central alone!

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/CDF/2015/09/19/0200-0159?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt

Oh dear! Looks like those in the WROC must have been doing some stressful overtime. ATW / TAC and FGW drivers also and I feel sorry for the lot of them.

Dave

Last edited: 21/09/2015 at 09:54 by DaveHarries
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Cardiff Central, 19th / 20th September..... 21/09/2015 at 10:40 #76095
RainbowNines
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The media have already sharpened the knives for FGW (sorry, should that be GWR now...!?)

A friend of mine travelled down for the Ireland game on the Saturday and was kept in a "holding pen" for two hours at Paddington. Even if you should "expect stations to be extremely busy" not sure you should expect that!

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Cardiff Central, 19th / 20th September..... 21/09/2015 at 11:04 #76096
slatteryc
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The surprise here is how this was not properly planned for . The schedules and volumes have been in evidence for quite a while now.

BUT Can it possibly be SimSigged to try and get an appreciation of the problem ?

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