| SWT "More trains than usual needing repairs" 23/12/25 Posted by TaplowGreen at 05:58, 23rd December 2025 |     |
It's not just GWR singing this song, but this will no doubt create extra pressure on already overcrowded services today.....
From National Rail
Disruption between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids, and between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction via Westbury until the end of the day
Service alteration details
Incident reported: Tuesday 23 December 2025 at 04:11
Last updated
Tuesday 23 December 2025 at 04:35
Train operators affected
South Western Railway
Route(s) affected
Between London Waterloo and Salisbury / Yeovil Junction / Exeter St Davids, and also between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction
Description
More trains than usual needing repairs at the same time that run between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids, and also between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction via Westbury means fewer services are able to run. Trains running between stations may be cancelled or revised.
Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer advice:
Due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time, some services between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids along with services between London Waterloo and Salisbury and onto Yeovil Junction via Westbury will either be cancelled, revised or formed of fewer carriages than normal.
South Western Railway are arranging for you to be able to use your ticket at no extra cost with other train operators. We will let you know when this is in place.
| Re: SWT "More trains than usual needing repairs" 23/12/25 Posted by Bob_Blakey at 08:59, 23rd December 2025 | |
This started yesterday 22/12 when some services ran SAL>EXD with 3 cars when 6 would have been expected, and some trains were 3 cars for the entire WAT>EXD trip.
Many services were reported as 'Full & Standing' and consequently delays resulted, one assumes, from issues with pax changeovers at stations.
1L33, the 1220 ex-Waterloo, departed as a 5 coach train, was almost full when it reached BSK, where one of my sons boarded, and then dropped the 158 unit at SAL. It arrived at EXD 48 mnutes late, ran into Platform 1 rather than the customary P3, skipped the Exeter New Yard 'tea break', and immediately returned 10 minures late to WAT as 1L64.
Given that this seems to have taken SWR by surprise is fuel contamination a possible cause?
