4: Melksham

Cancellations of local trains prolific due to rerouting of long distance services and low capacity/long single block section. Doubling or long dynamic loops would alleviate this problem.

8. Chandler’s Ford
Six miles of line singled in 1972, but crucially with double track sections at either end to allow a train to be held off the mainline whilst awaiting it’s turn to travel along the single line. Retained for freight and diversionary use, but an hourly passenger service reinstated in 2003. Seems to work relatively well as it is at present, so I wouldn’t have thought a high priority for re-doubling, especially with the cost of providing a second platform at Chandler’s Ford.

1 Yetminster station.
It still shows evidence of he broad gauge with the distance between the platforms. It was first doubled in 1859 to ease congestion of the steeply inclined section to Holywell Tunnel and Evershot.

Darn.  I should have got that one, from my days working with the Severnside Community Rail Partnership. 

I must stop trying to answer these from my phone

0: is Exmouth

2. Bad Kleinen (east of Hamburg). Redoubling is definitely not relevant - the line is double, and the whole station has been flattened and rebuilt in the last ten years, still with all four platform tracks (which I think are all back in use).

0:Shiplake Henley branch

Scarcely credible, however it's reported elsewhere that fighting broke out amongst the spotters on one of the final HST runs this morning - turfed off at Truro apparently.

One would hope that no members of this esteemed forum were involved - whoever he was, he's certainly a cheeky boy! 

https://x.com/themblades1889/status/1999819955705880721?s=20

I was interested in a past year to see which stations had the heaviest footfall per metre of operational platform and recall that Windsor and Eton Central bubbled up to being one of the busiest.  In GWR land, I would imagine that stations such as St Bureaux Ferry Road come towards the quietest; on a couple of uses the infrequent service there competes poorly with a frequent and quite fast bus service along the nearby main road.

In some circumstances there is more to it than that.   Human material can be infectious to other humans in ways that animal material is not.

For want of a bucket (+ hot water, bleach and a sponge!) the train was lost!

Yep, deep clean required!  No ability to do that at Westbury seems a bit mad?

So there's passengers taken ill, crew shortage, and now to complete the set....

Plotted out from JourneyCheck - ALL cancellations across the GWR area are mapped.  I have screen captured just the central area - there's also a round trip cancelled between Newquay and Par

I would hazard a guess and say Winchester would be quite high up the list too.

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