Xmas engineering round Bristol

asalmon · Post by **asalmon** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:09 pm

according to the national rail site between dec 27 and 31 there is work between filton abbey wood and parkway, and it says bristol - gloucester service is by bus

on the wessex site there is a timetable that seems to suggest trains will run.

so i wondered if anyone here knows what exactly will be hapenning. will there be trains, and will the run round the avonmouth freight loop again?

looking at the wessex timetable, one service * that is meant to be a train takes so long to get to glos and stops at the supposedly closed stations that I suspect it is a bus, and the next one, not labeled as anything, calls at patchway (with bus link from parkway) then newport and up to glos. **

Cheers
Alan

* BTM 0720
Abby Wd 0740
Parkway 0750
Yate 0810
Cam&Durs 8050
Glos 0925

** BTM 0740
Patchway 0751
Newport 0820
Glos 0902

safathome · Post by **safathome** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:00 am

there is new track up and down waiting to go in at Parkway.
Westerleigh Junction is being replaced with new points.

Steve

asalmon · Post by **asalmon** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:57 pm

Cheers Steve

Turns out the 0720 is a bus, and the 0740 is a virgin service - so i will go for the latter.

safathome · Post by **safathome** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:31 pm

Virgin trains for the last month on weekends have been reversing at Parkway going via Newport( calling point) then reverse again to Gloucester and the same from the Birmingham direction becouse of engineering work at Standish Junction.

Steve

asalmon · Post by **asalmon** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:16 am

Yep, found that out going to Warley!