07:36 London Paddington to Worcestershire Parkway Hl due 09:55 will be terminated at Oxford.
This is due to a fault on this train.
Last Updated:07/09/2025 00:43

10:21 Worcestershire Parkway Hl to London Paddington due 12:35 will be started from Oxford.
This is due to a fault on this train.
Last Updated:07/09/2025 00:44

Sun, 7 September 18:10 Castle Cary to Swindon due 19:34

07/09/25 18:10 Castle Cary to Swindon due 19:34 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Trowbridge, Melksham, Chippenham and Swindon.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Sun, 7 September 19:43 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25

07/09/25 19:43 Swindon to Westbury due 20:25 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Portuguese officials investigating Wednesday's deadly funicular crash in Lisbon say a cable along the railway's route snapped, but the rest of the mechanism was functioning properly.

"After examining the wreckage at the site, it was immediately determined that the cable connecting the two carriages had given way," a statement by the national transport safety office said.

The brakeman tried to apply emergency brakes but failed to prevent the derailment, the investigators add.

And how many years is it since my now famous crystal ball predicted that the new trains "would in practice be mainly 5 car units"
Such views were widely criticised as being unduly negative.

Thanks for the link. However it doesn't answer the question as to what side of the bridge the halt was situated.

Slough and Windsor Railway have a line drawing of the halt which suggests it was the Windsor side. On the left of the photo if it was taken looking West.

I used to live in one of the maisonettes in Ragstone opposite the railway and assumed the halt would have been opposite us.

Any thought on exact location?

It was situated just to the north of the bridge carrying the railway over Chalvey Road in Chalvey, south-western Slough, England.

They should have kept the HSTs ! not forever of course, but until the wretched IETs could work reliably enough to provide a full service.

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/site-cornwalls-historic-railway-turntable-10475029

Hardly ever in these days of bargain advance first class fares.  First class occupancy, percentage of seats wise, is often the same or even more than standard class on many trains.

05:52 London Paddington to Great Malvern due 08:18 has been delayed at Oxford and is now 20 minutes late.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Last Updated:06/09/2025 07:16

08:50 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 11:24 will be started from Worcester Foregate Street.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
Last Updated:06/09/2025 07:59

There’s still another two weekends to go before the summer Saturday services conclude for another year. Will GWR end the summer providing the timetabled service or will more trains be cancelled?

Volunteers reclaiming much loved historic railway

Published 5 September 2025

For more than a century the Somerset and Dorset Railway (S&D) served as a lifeline for rural communities - transporting coal, commuters and holidaymakers alike.

The historic line ran between Bath in Somerset and Bournemouth in Dorset, serving towns and villages such as Highbridge, Glastonbury, Wells, and Wincanton.

This week is the 60th anniversary since the 105-mile (168km) route was given a public notice it had to close all its station due to the Beeching cuts - a sweeping reduction of the UK rail network that severed thousands of miles of track.

But now volunteers, historians and local residents are reclaiming sections of the abandoned route, determined to preserve the once rich history of the railway line.

You could get 186 single journeys from Amsterdam Centraal to Lubeck with DB for that, but I'm not sure after my recent experience that I would wish that on anyone!