800008 Alan Turing approaches the site of Yarnton Junction on 28 November 2022 with the 1P28 12:09 Worcester Foregate Street to Paddington GWR service. This should have started from Great Malvern at 11:55, but as the unit's previous train (the 1W17 08:50 Paddington to Great Malvern) had left London 27 minutes late, and hardly made up any time, it was terminated at Worcester. This wasn't the end of the train's problem, because the earlier 1P26 10:59 Great Malvern to Paddington (which was terminated at Reading) encountered a delay at Charlbury, which then caused problems on the single line, so that 800008 passed me running 11 minutes late, having been held at Charlbury. Not a good day for GWR! |