Ew. Hadn't checked, but high tide is listed as 4.49am. Realtimetrains has the down sleeper listed as passing Dawlish at 04:49 and terminating at Plymouth so it may be that contingencies are activated.

[EDIT to add] But happily the centre of the low pressure system is booked to pass directly over Dawlish at the same time too, so if everything runs to time the wind will have fallen away more or less completely.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:W34774/2026-10-22/detailed

ET, thanks for the additional technical insights. Did you mean to suggest that the 6.25kV was just for individual bridges? (as that's the impression I got).

Was 6.25kV employed anywhere else? (e.g. the Glasgow network).

We visited in February 2017, and all was looking OK then.
Very sad

Most of my internet traffic goes through Cloudflare WARP on desktop and Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 on Android. ... [snip]

This forum doesn't like it though so I switch it off to visit here. Hence voting for option 1. But could be option 6.

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Probably it would look good, while perhaps with a Florida accent. 

My wife Lisa - who very occasionally reads as a guest - would vote
* I visit using a VPN
She has a virtual private network activated most of the time, primarily to allow her to access USA based content not available in the UK or Europe. I can also lean over and ask her to check how the forum looks for a guest from a different country if need be.

Taking that as a 'gentle hint', I have now merged a few previous topics here - as they all relate specifically to East West Rail - Oxford <- Milton Keynes, Bedford -> Cambridge.

As ever, I hope this helps with clarity and continuity of this subject.

CfN. 

I had to look up ATP - "Automatic Train Protection" turns out to be "Accessible Travel Policy".  I don't have the context in which the reply was written - so I hope it's a term you used, chuffed, in which case their use of it in writing to you is AOK - otherwise, it's rail jargon, and shouldn't be used without explanation to customers.

The rail industry has "created itself" a problem with multiple gated entrance stations where they offer a complete staffed ticketing service outside only one of them.   Typically the reason for multiple entrances is to reach a different customer catchment area.   You see the same thing at Chippenham.  Bath Spa - less of an issue; it's very easy and perhaps reasonable there to some across the bridge over the Avon from Widcombe and walk under to the ticket office. It would be no shorter to go in and out through 2 sets of barriers.

As an after thought - why is this only an issue for passengers with a disability - or is in an issue for all?  Cynthia Doe gets off the no. 8 bus with her twins in their pushchair, and needs access to the ticket office / travel centre ...

East West rail has been a huge topic of discussion here - I just search for "East West Rail" on the Coffee Shop and found 165 posts in 57 threads ...

TfW have been running route learning services into Temple Meads for the last couple of weeks.  On Monday I saw a class 150 and two class 153's running together from Temple Meads up to Parkway then reversing to head back to Wales.

Dear Chris

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You may have seen that we are expecting the arrival of Storm Austen which will bring some severe weather in the coming days where you live. The Met Office has issued weather warnings for wind and rain affecting parts of Wales and South West England on Friday, and gusts of 50–60mph possible more widely across the warning area. Stronger winds are possible in some exposed coastal locations.

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We really appreciate you being our eyes and ears along the railway. If you see anything that looks unsafe such as: 
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Winslow Station Protest

Two years ago yesterday East West Rail, including Winslow Station, became an operational railway. Since then we’ve been told Chiltern claim the station wasn’t built fit for purpose. We’ve heard unions and the Government are at loggerheads over whether there should be a sevond person on trains. We’ve heard the platforms are too short and will have to be lengthened. We’ve heard millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money has been wasted because of the delay. We’ve heard excuse after excuse. It’s now time to make our voices heard. I’m organising a protest outside Winslow Station on Saturday 21st November from 11am to 1pm. Please let me know if you can come. It’s an absolute scandal - we need to do what it takes to get this service running