Hopefully no-one needs to get to work this morning 


Delays to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to engineering works not being finished on time between London Paddington and Reading all lines are closed.

Train services running to and from these stations will be delayed. Disruption is expected until 07:00 22/11.

 
Surprise surprise. Returning from London later today, so now await to see if this affects our train. And to think we’ve got years of HS2 work at Old Oak Common to come, something that brings absolutely no benefit to the Western Region whatsoever. Unless you consider stopping every train to stop at Old Oak Common a benefit.

 

Disruption now until 1000

 
Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to engineering works not being finished on time between London Paddington and Reading some lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until 08:00 18/11.

Customer Advice
We are sorry for the delay to your journey today.


Can you tell me more about the incident?

We have been notified that the Old Oak Common line block possession is over running this morning. We are anticipating this to cause disruption to our scheduled train service.

 
Heading up to London for the weekend this morning so that will probably mean another journey subsided by Delay Repay! Oh, and no we’re not returning Sunday. Travelling by train on a Sunday is an absolute no no, as is using the trains over the Christmas holidays.

 
Again. All day. Second time this week.

Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to a speed restriction over defective track between London Paddington and Reading trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines towards Reading.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed by up to 30 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

 
[I thought I’d added some smiley faces to my comment to indicate that I’d taken the earlier reply in a positive, amused manner] 

 

We are a forum of pedants, Im afraid - but all done in the best possible taste and with almost complete politeness and mostly good humour and understanding 

It reminds me of the story of the chap who drove out to the pub one night for a drink, and had rather a lot or alcohol. Advice was given that he should take the bus home, and he followed that advice.    Good job he did, because the police had a checkpoint and were stopping all cars to check that all car drivers were sober, but they waved the bus straight through.  In the morning as he sobered up, our chap wondered what the bus was doing parked outside his house then he remembered he had driven it home last night.   A good example of where the driver of a public transport vehicle does chose his destination.

 
Well you're in good company - it was Jerome K. Jerome who threw the related matter of whether drivers chose the destination of their train into the pot and that was around a century and a half back, at Waterloo when the driver of the Kingston train gently reverse-pulls their legs by pretending to be persuaded to choose Kingston as his destination.

Mark

 
Somewhat bizarrely the Elizabeth Line Heathrow service has been suspended due to "non availability of signalling staff"

 
I just knew that that would be the point that would be picked up on

 

Always amuses me when people think it’s the drivers decision to make additional stops.

 
My wife is on the 7.37 from Maidenhead (having waited 30mins for a service)and is reporting it as dangerously overcrowde.
Driver has apparently decided to make additional stops at Iver etc. not that anyone waiting can actually board the train.

 
Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Slough

Due to a broken rail between London Paddington and Slough trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised.

Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

 
Typically for the Reading Chronicle, its headline says "Reading train station death: Person killed near Thatcham".

 
The incident is at Thatcham.

 
Cancellations to services between Reading and Newbury

Due to the emergency services dealing with an incident between Reading and Newbury all lines are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled or delayed. Disruption is expected until 08:40 06/11.

 
Delays to services at Slough

Due to a fault with the signalling system at Slough trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines.

Train services running through this station may be delayed. Disruption is expected until 19:45 31/10.

Customer Advice
Due to a fault with the signalling system at Slough, services passing through this station will be delayed.

 
From National Rail


Train operators affected

Elizabeth line
Great Western Railway
Heathrow Express
Route(s) affected
To / from / through London Paddington

Description
A fault with the signalling system at Ealing Broadway means some lines are blocked. Trains running between London Paddington and Southall may be cancelled or revised.

Disruption is expected until 08:30.

 

From National Rail


Route(s) affected
between Southall and London Paddington

Description
Urgent repairs to the railway between Southall and London Paddington is causing disruption to services between these stations. As a result, trains may be cancelled, delayed by up to 10 minutes or revised.

Disruption is expected unil 14:15.

 
I think that should be   Chris....

 

 

 
Apparently in this case 

 
So, GWR social media over-rides the official GWR online updates?   

 

Fortunately for those concerned this advice was wrong. GWR on social.media corrected this to them running between Reading & Didcot Parkway as would be expected in this kind of disruption.

 
Ah, the Cow Lane bridges ... Yes, that's the route I would take, though the ambulance that collected me the other day (no need for blues and twos) turned right into Beresford Road, then left, then right into Salisbury Road, emerging near Reading West Station.

The taxi driver who returned me home from hospital used the back doubles south of Oxford Street. (A friend had offered to collect me, but that would have meant her driving into  Reading from M4 JII, finding a parking space at the Royal Berks, finding me and then driving me home in the rush hour. Which might have strained our relationship.)

Fifty years ago (gulp!), my office was in Market Place House in Reading. There was a terrible Vauxhall Viva office car (smelly plastic seats, three gears with the lever on the steering column) that we were expected to use on business rather than our private ones. I have grim memories of taking it home to Tilehurst in the evening rush-hour for use next day:thirty minutes to cover four miles ...

When my office closed in 1982, we ended up in a grubby London office with "Holborn Viaduct"in its address.The office car was even worse, spending most of the time covered in pigeon poo in a triangular courtyard. For a while, the new boss expected me to drive the car 40 miles to my house, to use it rather than mine the next day for a 19-mile journey on the outskirts of Basingstoke. Eventually he saw sense ...

(I was tempted to laugh when the office car broke down on the M3 when he was driving it; a decision was taken to scrap it.)

 
Hi Marlburian,

I'd suggest going via Portman Road, Richfield Avenue and Caversham Road to get to the pick up and drop off area on the North side of Reading Station from the Norcot roundabout. One incidental benefit of the reconstruction of the station and junctions to the west last decade was the removal of the Cow Lane bridges bottleneck that made this almost as fraught as the Oxford Road.

 
"Our local stopping trains between Didcot Parkway and London Paddington will only run between Reading and London Paddington." 

That seems hard luck on passengers between Reading and Didcot - stranded at stations with few facilities, if indeed any that are open in the afternoons. Usually in these circumstances, I think, there's a shuttle service between the two towns. At least Newbury-Paddington trains ran between Newbury and Reading.

A friend was talking of visiting me from London yesterday and might have been affected had she done so, prompting me to have to drive her into Reading from Tilehurst (direct route down the nightmarish Oxford Road). In previous instances like this, I have been known to lack gallantry and put them on a bus ...

 
Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading
Due to a fault with the signalling system between London Paddington and Reading some lines are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled or delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer Advice
We're sorry for the delay to your journey today. Due to a signalling fault in the Southall area, some lines are blocked to allow Network Rail staff to fix the fault. Our high speed long distance trains will be delayed between Reading and London Paddington as they will need to share the local stopping lines with slower trains.
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Our local stopping trains between Didcot Parkway and London Paddington will only run between Reading and London Paddington. Our trains between Newbury and London Paddington will only run between Newbury and Reading. Customers travelling to or from London Paddington will need to change trains at Reading. Some of our high speed trains between London Paddington and South Wales ,Bristol and Cheltenham Spa may also need to be cancelled or terminated at Reading instead of London Paddington.
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Customers travelling between Oxford and London Paddington may use their tickets on Chiltern Railways services at no extra cost between Oxford and London Marylebone.
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Customers may use their tickets on Elizabeth Line services at no extra cost between Reading and Paddington. Please note: Elizabeth Line services are also affected by this issue. For more information on Elizabeth Line services, please visit www.tfl.gov.uk.
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Customers may use their tickets at no extra cost on London Underground services via any reasonable route at no extra cost.
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Customers travelling between Windsor and Eton Central and Central London may use their tickets at no extra cost on South Western Railway services between Windsor and Eton Riverside and London Waterloo.
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GWR customers travelling between Reading and Oxford may use Cross Country services. GWR tickets are being accepted on this route.
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For more information, please speak to a member of staff or trigger a help point located at platform level. Our social media team are also contactable on X (Twitter), via @GWRHelp between the hours of 06:00 and 23:00.
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Further Information
An update will follow within the next 2 hours.
If you arrive at your destination 15 or more minutes late because your GWR train was delayed or cancelled, you can claim Delay Repay compensation. Please keep your ticket and visit GWR.com/DelayRepay
Last Updated:16/10/2024 15:36

 
Delays to services between London Paddington and Reading
Due to a fault with the signalling system between London Paddington and Reading trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines.
Train services running to and from these stations will be delayed. Disruption is expected until 15:30 16/10.
Customer Advice
Due to an axle counter failure at Southall, some trains passing through this location may incur some delays.

 
Great start to the week.

Delays to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to a safety inspection of the track between Reading and London Paddington some lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations will be delayed. Disruption is expected until 09:00 14/10.

 
Following a points failure at Slough the line towards Reading has now reopened. Disruption is expected until 11:00 13/10.

Train services between London Paddington and Reading may be cancelled or delayed.

Customer Advice
Following a points failure and overrunning engineering works, we are pleased to report that trains can start running between London Paddington and Reading once again. However, this has caused some significant disruption, and therefore it is likely cancellations will continue throughout the day.

 
Only two trains bound for Reading have left so far this morning and they didn’t get very far.

This looks more positive for a resumption of services:

 

 
Delays to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to trespassers on the railway between Reading and London Paddington all lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations will be delayed. Disruption is expected until 22:15 12/10.

 
From National Rail......

Route(s) affected
Elizabeth line between Abbey Wood and Heathrow Terminal 4 / Maidenhead / Reading, and also between Shenfield and Heathrow Terminal 5

Great Western Railway between London Paddington and Didcot Parkway / Newbury / Bedwyn / Bristol Temple Meads / Cheltenham Spa / Worcester Foregate Street / Great Malvern / Hereford / Cardiff Central / Swansea / Weston-super-Mare / Frome / Plymouth / Penzance

Heathrow Express between London Paddington and Heathow Terminal 5

Description
A speed restriction over defective track between Acton Main Line and Ealing Broadway is causing disruption to journeys running between these stations.

As a result, trains running between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport / Reading may be cancelled, delayed by up to 30 minutes or revised.

Disruption is expected to continue until 20:30.

 
Delays to services between Reading and Newbury

Due to a fault with the signalling system between Reading and Newbury trains have to run at reduced speed on the line towards Newbury.

Train services running to and from these stations will be delayed. Disruption is expected until 14:00 09/10.

 
Cancellations to services between Reading and London Paddington
Due to the emergency services dealing with an incident between Reading and London Paddington all lines are disrupted.
Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled, delayed or terminated at and started back from Reading. All stations between Reading and London Paddington will not be served. Disruption is expected until 12:00 07/10.
Customer Advice
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We are sorry for the disruption to your journey today, due to the emergency services dealing with an incident in the Reading area, all lines between Reading and London Paddington are currently blocked. Network Rail are working to get some of the lines open again as soon as possible. High speed long distance trains may be held in stations some distance away from the affected area, this is necessary to prevent further disruption to your journey. This page will be updated with the latest information when we have it.

 
Sounds like another sad "incident" between Reading & Paddington. Much at a standstill. Thoughts with all concerned.

 
From National Rail  - Journeycheck still asleep.

Train operators affected

Elizabeth line
Great Western Railway
Heathrow Express
Route(s) affected
between Slough / Heathrow Terminals and London Paddington

Description
A points failure at Southall means some lines are blocked. As a result, trains may be cancelled, delayed by up to 20 minutes or revised. This is expected until 07:30

 
From National Rail......

Route(s) affected
Elizabeth line services between London Paddington and Southall

Description
A safety inspection of the track at Ealing Broadway means trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines. As a result of this, Elizabeth line trains between London Paddington and Southall may be cancelled, delayed by up to 15 minutes or revised.

Disruption is expected until 20:00.

 
.....and again...

Alterations to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to a fault with the signalling system between Reading and London Paddington trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines.
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 15 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until 10:00 17/09.

Customer Advice
We are sorry for the delay to your journey this morning.

Network Rail are dealing with a couple of signalling issues in the Twyford / Slough area where trains have to run at reduced speed. Network Rail staff are on site trying to rectify both issues. To create some time between trains to fix the issues, the Newbury to Paddington services will only operate between Newbury and Reading (in both directions).

 
Cancellations to services between Oxford and Didcot Parkway

Due to a fault with the signalling system between Oxford and Didcot Parkway fewer trains are able to run on the line towards Didcot Parkway.

Train services running through these stations may be cancelled or delayed. Disruption is expected until 11:00 16/09.

 
London Paddington disruption: Passengers blast "disgraceful" response

 

Yes, some fella has decided it's a good idea to climb onto one of the main spans.

 
Appears to be a trespass incident.

 
Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to the emergency services dealing with an incident between London Paddington and Reading fewer trains are able to run on some lines.

Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled, delayed or terminated at and started back from Reading. Disruption is expected until 20:00 14/09.

Customer Advice
We're sorry for the delay to your journey. Due to the emergency services dealing with an incident at London Paddington, Network Rail have had to turn off the electric power supply to trains. The nature of this incident means we are unable to operate any trains between Reading and London Paddington. More information will be provided when we have it.

 
Delays to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to a points failure between Reading and London Paddington trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines.

Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until 12:00 14/09.

 

That's why. The Elizabeth Line don't have a Journeycheck page

 
From National Rail....

Description
A fault with the signalling system at Ealing Broadway means trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines. As a result, trains may be cancelled, delayed by up to 20 minutes or revised.

Disruption is expected until 09:00.

 

I'm guessing you missed the line that said

"All Great Western Railway Routes to / from London Paddington"

 
That'll be why it doesn't appear on journeycheck then

 
https://tfl.gov.uk/ Is where I would go.

 
Does the Elizabeth Line have it's own Journeycheck page?

 
Journeycheck not reporting it (do they not work Sundays either?), but this from National Rail....

Route(s) affected
Elizabeth line between London Paddington and Heathrow Terminal 4 / Heathrow Terminal 5 / Maidenhead / Reading

All Great Western Railway Routes to / from London Paddington

All Heathrow Express routes to / from London Paddington

Description
Overunning engineering works between London Paddington and Ealing Broadway means all lines are blocked. As a result, trains may be cancelled, delayed by up to 30 minutes or revised. This is expected until 09:30.


......won't help the already shambolic Sunday service at all.

 
Delays to services between Newbury and Reading
Due to a bridge being damaged by a road vehicle between Newbury and Reading trains have to run at reduced speed.
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer Advice
Due to a lorry striking a bridge near Newbury. Some services between Newbury Reading will be delayed.

 

Was he booked to attend on 13th June but delayed due to travelling in the Thames Valley?

 
Delays to services between Maidenhead and Reading
Due to a fault with the signalling system between Maidenhead and Reading the line towards Reading will be blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations will be delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer Advice
Due to two signalling issues near Maidenhead the line between Maidenhead towards Reading will be blocked.

 
We must ask Daryn McCombe, Director of Performance at GWR, when we meet him online here on the Coffee Shop forum at 14:30 on Thursday 3 October 2024. 

 
That's 6,8,12,16,19,20,25,26,27 & 28 August (so far) this month that there's been significant delays/cancellations on this stretch of line due to points/signal failure, track defects & OHL issues, to say nothing of last weekends spectacular BBQ Sunday.

Wonder what the plan is?

 
From National Rail

Route(s) affected
between London Paddington and Heathrow Terminals

Description
A fault with the signalling system at Southall means some lines are currently closed. As a result, trains running between London Paddington and Heathrow Terminals may be cancelled or revised.

Disruption is expected until 14:00

 
.......and another one....

Cancellations to services between Reading and Newbury

Due to a bridge being damaged at Reading West all lines are blocked. Disruption is expected until 18:30 27/08.

Train services between Reading and Newbury may be cancelled or delayed.

 
Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to a fault with the signalling system between London Paddington and Reading some lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled. Disruption is expected until 18:30 27/08.

 

Now updated to "Major disruption is expected until 21:00" - currently numerous Elizabeth Line cancellations but only one or two GWR affected.

 
Journeycheck yet to catch up but this from National Rail;

Route(s) affected
between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport / Reading

Description
An object being caught on the overhead electric wires between London Paddington and Acton Main Line means that some lines are blocked. Trains running between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport / Reading may be cancelled, delayed by up to 20 minutes or revised.

Disruption is expected until 19:00.

 

Probably by the time he got (gets?) home via GWR he was considerably older than he thought he'd be when he set out......

 
Wonder how old her son is?.... 

 
BBC presenter Sara Thornton has posted on X a short video from her son showing the scene tonight at PAD:

https://x.com/SaraThornton1/status/1827794876051669259

 
Delays to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between Reading and London Paddington all lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day

Paddington station exit only....must be horrendous

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/london-paddington-20240825/

 

That's probably all my fault, for tempting fate by splitting this topic.

 
......something tells me there's going to be a lot of taxi drivers making some serious money tonight.....

Imagine if there was such a chronic shortage of crew that those few trains which are running are massively and dangerously overcrowded as well as the infrastructure falling over?

No, can't imagine that being allowed to happen

 
Delays to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between Reading and London Paddington all lines are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until 20:30 25/08.

Customer Advice
Due to a report of an obstruction on the overhead electric wires between London Paddington and Reading all lines are blocked.


Of concern is this:


This train is covering the cancelled 17:30 to Bristol, the 18:00 Plymouth via Bristol and the cancelled 18:03 to Penzance (see below)

I hope they’ve let people off the train until the OLE issue is resolved as this train must be absolutely rammed.

 
Yes, that's a (brutally) realistic summary of this whole subject. 

 

Thankyou for those kind words Chris, and for your effort in splitting this ongoing topic into its constituent years.

I too would like to pay tribute to IndustryInsider for his spirited defence of the railway on this issue despite the best (or perhaps lack of!) efforts of Network Rail and GWR...........I hope they appreciate his commitment and his loyalty.

I think my main takeaway from the Herculean task you have undertaken is to make me realise how wrong I have been................there was me thinking that the infrastructure has been falling apart for the last few years, whereas in reality it's been at least a decade! 

 
This is clearly a very ongoing issue. 

I have now split our historic huge topic on the Coffee Shop forum into calendar-sized, and hopefully more readable, chunks.

While I was doing this, I read / reviewed / reminded myself of all these historic posts.

My overall impression was of how many members of this forum have contributed to this great discussion.  You are all very welcome to post here and your input is much appreciated by our readers (I know, I get feedback!)

I would like to thank personally (probably just to embarrass them here ) two of our main contributors to this particular topic - interestingly, from somewhat opposite corners.

Thank you, IndustryInsider and TaplowGreen, for your continuing input to the Coffee Shop forum.

Chris 

 
Nudged by one of my fellow admins, I've now simplified the heading of this clearly ongoing topic. 

 
Delays to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to a speed restriction over defective track between Reading and London Paddington trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines towards London Paddington.

Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

 
Delays to services between Reading and Didcot Parkway

Due to a safety inspection of the track between Reading and Didcot Parkway trains have to run at reduced speed on some lines.

Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 10 minutes. Disruption is expected until 20:15 19/08.

 
Delays to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to a fault with the signalling system between Reading and London Paddington some lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until 09:00 16/08.

 
Thanks, Bob. 

I was trying to avoid even starting that one again. 

 
This could send us down another alley - the Berks & Hants avoids Hampshire....

 
There's nothing here that backs up the Berks & Hants as being located in the Thames Valley though!

 
With all the pedantry regards the geographical / geopolitical on how the Thames / Isis / Kennet / Loddon valleys are defined in railway terms .....................

All must be fine with the GWR and Elizabeth services today

   

 
Touche. 

From Wikipedia, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Head

CfN 

 

Source of the Thames near Kemble - That's a wholly different dispute - or is it at Seven Springs 4 miles SSW of Cheltenham!

 
Clearly a number of different opinions on the geographical question and no single "right" answer - I am sure we can all carry on posting from our own perspectives whilst respecting others which may differ, in the spirit of the Forum as a whole.

 
The part of me that harks back to the BR sector era generally takes 'Thames Valley' in rail terms to refer generally to the London/suburban (also very much defined in rail terms here) part of the former Western Region, i.e. the routes that NSE called 'Thames Line', which would include Oxford and Newbury/Bedwyn. Thames Trains muddies the water here, of course, as I don't take it to include the Cotswold or North Downs routes! I think the name lives on as a the London & Thames Valley 'sector' of GWR.

 

Yes.

And for neatness it roughly follows the path of the River Thames and its associated valleys.

 
This is a public transport, primarily railway, forum. This thread is on the "Across the West" board and deals with problems in the "Thames Valley" affecting GW's network as a whole or substantial parts. It follows that it mostly relates to London-bound main line services (or those originating in London) on the GW network.

All main line trains into London pass between Reading and Paddington, along the overused and struggling section that generates most posts here. At Reading there is the first main junction, with "Hants & Berks" (Reading-Taunton direct) trains branching off. Shortly after on that line, south-west of Reading, at Southcote junction, the Basingstoke line (local trains & Cross-country) diverge from this, so this seems a logical place to divide between this thread and the London to Kennet Valley and London to the West boards.

At Didcot there's another major junction - "straight on" for Bristol, South Wales and South West via Bristol, "turn right" for Oxford, Banbury, the North Cotswolds and Cross-country. So it seems logical to include Reading to Didcot, as problems here affect most services between London and major destinations west.

After Oxford, the final major junction separates out Cotswold line services from the rest, so Oxford looks like a sensible northern end to the scope of this thread.

Does that seem sensible?

 
Far from it. The map shows the catchment area in which a website-development company provides its services.

Googling led to other definitions: "the eight local authorities of Bracknell Forest Council, Buckinghamshire County Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Reading Borough Council, Slough Borough Council, The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, West Berkshire Council and Wokingham Borough Council"; "includes the 2 cities of Oxford and Reading, and a number of major towns (Slough, Maidenhead, Windsor, Henley-on-Thames, High Wycombe, Newbury, Aylesbury, Wokingham and Bracknell"; "three counties: Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire". No doubt other definitions exist.

 
This should help to dispel any geographical confusion or ambiguity......

 
I agree. 

Geographically, as the River Thames starts from a spring just to the north of Kemble, anything to the east of there could be called 'Thames Valley'.  But not in railway terms. 

 
Yep, I agree with Eightonedee. At least to Oxford, but *not* down the Berks & Hants - that is the Kennet Valley

 

Nope - from someone who is a native - it goes at least as far as Cholsey - I'd suggest that Didcot or Oxford might be suitable end points, as disruption anywhere there still affects a lot of services.

South west of Reading, from Theale onwards, it's the Kennet Valley.

 
At the risk of upsetting many, as a far Western member, "Thames Valley" to me is anything between Paddington and Reading.
Just as I am annoyed when the West Country is from Bristol down!

 
Delays to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to a fault with the signalling system between London Paddington and Reading fewer trains are able to run on the Reading bound high speed line.

Train services running to and from these stations will be delayed. Disruption is expected until 18:00 12/08.

 
Not sure that's the 'Thames Valley' though?

 
Cancellations to services between Westbury and Reading

Due to a points failure between Westbury and Reading the line is blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed or diverted. Disruption is expected until 14:00 12/08.

Customer Advice
Due to a points failure at Hungerford train services between Westbury and Reading are being diverted where possible.

 

The £100m is the real cut in funding year on year the £156m you stated should have been higher, the cut is the Government funding ie Tax payer, if the railways generates more income then the Government funding is not so bad, NR increases its funding by improving its performance thereby reducing the she dual 8 payments to TOC's

 
Delays to services between Reading and London Paddington

Due to a points failure between Reading and London Paddington some lines are closed.

Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 20 minutes. Disruption is expected until 13:00 08/08.