From looking at a Berth Maps replay:

The stock from the Portsmouth train returned to Bristol ECS at 14:52.  During which time nothing was stuck behind it and it cleared in time for the 15:01 to Westbury to run through on time - surely that should have been the best service for passengers turfed off the Portsmouth train to get on, though it was only a 2-car.  By which time the two or three services that had been stuck ahead on the line to Westbury had just been cleared.

The 14:43 to Paddington left Bristol 20 minutes late and followed the 15:01 Westbury service through Bath Spa, only incurring an extra 2 minutes of delay.

The sets from the Cardiff to Portsmouth train that terminated at Bath then went on to form the 15:57 Bristol to Cardiff which re-started at Bristol with the original service from Portsmouth running 34 minutes late and terminating there.

You can't do a Berth Maps replay, but it's worth pointing out that you can check allocations for a particular unit going back five years on RTT if you are a RTT+ subscriber, so you would have been able to work out that last bit.  Well worth £2 per month in my opinion.

 
Interesting that there is both a bridge open, and bridge closed footpath.

 
Wasn't aware of this bridge, interesting !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c670p9e28v5vo

 
Thank you all - the votes and further detail are so useful (ref https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=32649.msg381276#msg381276 ).   There may not be anything visible to you as a result, but please believe me it's a huge help in tuning the response not only to the ongoing PHP stuff, but also to wider traffic management issues.

And if you have not yet voted, PLEASE, do so!

 
:-) An observation the ramifications of which run deep.

 

BBC Update - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxnv025d8qpmo


As the "techie" here, I remain watching and vigilant ... and not shouting in guest-readable posts any details on the various aspects for the Coffee Shop (just as I would not shout passwords!).   Big "Thank You" to members who have completed the "where do you browse from" poll ( https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=32656.0 ); that data is so useful 

 

It’s a premium priced bus service so they get the premium stop?

 
I access the Coffee Shop at home in the UK using an iPad and Safari, home broadband is FTTC at about 40 mbps. Abroad I use an E sim or Wi-Fi on an iPhone.

 
Aforementioned offspring, of the toppled bin, caught train at Falmouth Town last evening and was successfully delivered into Paddington on the sleeper this morning.

 
As we called at all sorts of little stations - often for no passengers - across the north of Spain I noted a lot of investment and wonder if we're going to see a blooming of services.  Just 2 a day each way in the central section between Oviedo and El Ferrol, but a more frequent setvice at the ends ... and some substantial new engineering even amongst the remains of the old.

This reminded me of Bradford-on-Avon

at a nil-off, nil-on station.

But then it's far more magnificent than B-o-A


Is it also more practical?  At B-o-A the ramp is accessed from a side road some distance from the main station entrance - and the ticket machine; kinda impractical if you're in a wheelchair and need to buy your ticket before boarding.  At least in Spain there are parallel steps, it's the main station entrance, and the lady train manager was quite happy to sell tickets.

 
Yes, we have much Health and Safety nowadays!
Too much perhaps?..............Now there's a discussion to be had.............

 

I find myself wondering if there is some significance in the "seem to" - in this age of wall to wall news.  50 years ago, I would not have known about distruption to Barnstaple, for example, which we see today, whereas today (and in El Ferrol in Spain!) I am fully aware

I also find myself wondering if unexpected events take longer to recover from.



But, yes, at home we do have three days plus of food and water.  I would be concerned about a really long mains electric cut, even though we have some solar panels, and cash tends to be in a variety of "what is THAT?" currencies ...

 
The 'stockpiling' of cash is also a consideration: in the event of any temporary outage of online banking connection, many shops have to revert to 'cash only' status.

 
Thank you, broadgage. 

 

Hi, Ollie!

I think that's possibly a rather harsh self-assessment of yourself.

I do know Ollie, from the earliest days of the Coffee Shop forum, including a great 'line bash' we did, down to Falmouth, many years ago.

CfN. 

 
If stocking batteries for any future emergency, I would strongly recommend energiser ultimate lithium types, available in AA, AAA and small 9volt types.
AA batteries have a shelf life of 25 years from production, or typically about 24 years from retail sale. They are rather expensive from retail stores.
Cheaper from ebay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/398080460595 for example.

 
I'm a bit of a mixed bag, my visits are mostly on a laptop using Chrome Browser from within the UK, however not uncommon for me to have laptop with me when I've been abroad and I will pop in for a look - this is sometimes done via VPN but not consistently so.

 
At the risk of encouraging Coffee Shop forum member 'broadgage', here is an update, from the BBC on the subject - including guidance from the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham himself, apparently:


Please do continue to add any further suggestions here as to what should be stockpiled: 'broadgage' will then no doubt assess and validate them.

CfN. 

 
I voted as just accessing the Coffee Shop from the UK although I might have accessed it from Europe one or two times when I was previously abroad nearly (gulp) seven and a half years ago.  I would probably access it again from abroad if our plans for a few euro jaunts come to fruition next year.  For that reason, if you think that also qualifies for the accessing from abroad category, please feel free to add that to my vote....or advise me to change my voting accordingly.

 
A person has died after being struck by a train at Collins Lane Level Crossing in Purton at around 3.05pm on Thursday  October 22.

 
Returning from Bristol on the 14:22 Cardiff to Portsmouth, that train terminated short - at Bath Spa. Leaving the healthily running train at Bath, a minute later the entire passenger load did the same, acting on an announcement on board. The ~85% full 4 carriage train emptied. Then, an announcement went out to the effect "Passengers who have alighted from the Portsmouth train, please stay on the platform and we'll have information for you in ten minutes". After ten minutes the advice was wait on the platform and catch the following service to Portsmouth - but checking RTT it looks as though that was cancelled too. The one an hour later than that ran, and has just left Salisbury half an hour down, sods law dictating that it is three carriages. RTT doesn't show what happened to that Portsmouth train, but something got under the feet of the 14:43 to Paddington which called at Bath 20 minutes down.

Also, I see that the 11:30ish departure from Weymouth spent two hours in the section before Yeovil Pen Mill, and another two hours between there and Castle Cary, so a long day for everyone.

 

Indeed - there is a conundrum here / a set of systems that don't make the life of the inexperience traveller particularly easy, and leave a whole raft of potential loopholes.   We don't (in the UK) have a monopoly on such issues - witness the current trip Lisa and I are taking across Northern Spain and down the Atlantic coast - we hope - into Portugal.   Another post - perhaps on that.

I remind myself here (on the Coffee Shop) that I am reasonably familiar with the British system, with reading the data and working out what to do.  So - these days - are most of our members.   But that does not apply to the majority of the travelling public who may well be bright, but don't have the experience, reading and time to go through obscure processes to get the something that works best.

But then ... the system is also do complex that it can be read and holes found by those clever little tikes who want to defraud the system, and staff on the lookout to plug this holes also plug holes of usability ...